Player Dossier

2015-2017

Louisville

Drew Bailey

DL • 6'5" • 294 lbs • Jacksonville, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Drew Bailey shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

12%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

14

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Louisville

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Louisville
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Duke

Player Story

Drew Bailey built his college career from 2015 through 2017 as a defensive lineman from Jacksonville, FL wearing No. 14, spending time with Louisville. The clearest part of Drew Bailey's career was his defensive...

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Drew Bailey, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Postseason · Louisville. Drew Bailey shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
74
TFL
9
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Drew Bailey quick answers

Latest team and position
Louisville · DL
Career Tackles
74
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 5 entries · 20 games
Best season
2016 Postseason · Louisville
Top game
Duke
Latest roster
No. 14 · Class 2017
2017 Tackles rank
16 tackles · DL 339th (top 48%) · ACC 240th (top 41%) · National 2,216th (top 39%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonLouisville00-0--0-
2016 PostseasonLouisville13910--058.4
2016 Regular SeasonLouisville1349821-058.4
2017 PostseasonLouisville72-0--08.6
2017 Regular SeasonLouisville714-0.5--08.6

Related Context

Drew Bailey played DL for Louisville. Across 3 tracked seasons, Drew Bailey recorded 74 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Louisville.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Postseason

Louisville paired 12 primary output with 27.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2017 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 10.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2017 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Purdue

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2017 Postseason · Louisville

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.1

Efficiency

10.2

Usage

1.8

Consistency

4.8

Best Game by takeover score

Purdue

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Mississippi State: 0. Purdue: 0.5. Florida State: 0. Wake Forest: 0. Virginia: 0. Syracuse: 0. Kentucky: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Mississippi State: 2 by 8.3. Purdue: 3 by 17.5. Florida State: 2 by 8.3. Wake Forest: 2 by 8.3. Virginia: 1 by 4.2. Syracuse: 2 by 8.3. Kentucky: 4 by 16.7

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0.1 · Games = 5 · +0.1 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -0.1 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Purdue

Best efficiency game

17.5 vs Purdue

Result
Sat 12/30@ Mississippi StateL 27-3122000
Sat 11/25@ KentuckyW 44-1741000
Sat 11/18vs SyracuseW 56-1022000
Sat 11/11vs VirginiaW 38-2111000
Sat 10/28@ Wake ForestL 32-4222000
Sat 10/21@ Florida StateW 31-2820000
Sat 9/2@ PurdueW 35-283000.500

Player Story

Drew Bailey story

Drew Bailey built his college career from 2015 through 2017 as a defensive lineman from Jacksonville, FL wearing No. 14, spending time with Louisville. The clearest part of Drew Bailey's career was his defensive production: 74 tackles, 9 tackles for loss, and 2.5 sacks across 20 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2016 with Louisville. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Drew Bailey's production has multiple signals. With 20 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Louisville.

The arc is straightforward: Drew Bailey moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Louisville

    2015-2017

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20152016201620172017
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonLouisville0
2016 PostseasonLouisville1227.86.212
2016 Regular SeasonLouisville1227.86.20
2017 PostseasonLouisville0.510.21.8-11.5
2017 Regular SeasonLouisville0.510.21.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Duke

Week 7 · W 24-14 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

91.9 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 91.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Wake Forest

Week 11 · W 44-12 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

58.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 58.3 takeover score.

#3

@ Syracuse

Week 2 · W 62-28 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

49.2 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 49.2 takeover score.

#4

vs LSU

Week 1 · L 9-29 · Postseason

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Havoc Plays

48.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.3 takeover score.

#5

@ Houston

Week 12 · L 10-36

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Havoc Plays

45 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 45 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Postseason · Louisville

12 primary output · 27.8 efficiency · 6.2 usage

58.4

#2

2016 Regular Season · Louisville

58.4

12 primary · 27.8 efficiency · 6.2 usage

#3

2017 Postseason · Louisville

8.6

0.5 primary · 10.2 efficiency · 1.8 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

3

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games