Player Dossier

2016-2020

Kansas State

Elijah Sullivan

LB • 6'0" • 215 lbs • Tucker, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Elijah Sullivan shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 28.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

36%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

63

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

66

Reliable weekly contributor

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Star Power

68

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2019 Postseason · Kansas State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Kansas State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Texas Tech

Player Story

Elijah Sullivan built his college career from 2016 through 2020 as a linebacker from Tucker, GA, spending time with Kansas State. The clearest part of Elijah Sullivan's career was his defensive production: 143...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2015 · Rating 0.8861

Tucker · Tucker, GA

Committed To
Kansas State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2015

Elijah Sullivan, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2019 Postseason · Kansas State. Elijah Sullivan shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 28.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
143
TFL
7.5
Sacks
2
QB hurries
5
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Elijah Sullivan quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas State · LB
Career Tackles
143
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 38 games
Best season
2019 Postseason · Kansas State
Top game
Texas Tech
Recruit profile
3-star · Tucker · Kansas State
High school pipeline
Tucker · 54 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
Senior
2020 Tackles rank
39 tackles · LB 245th (top 22%) · Big 12 56th (top 13%) · National 495th (top 10%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2016 Regular SeasonKansas State34-0--038.9
2017 PostseasonKansas State136-0--016
2017 Regular SeasonKansas State1322111-016
2018 Regular SeasonKansas State27-01-035.3
2019 PostseasonKansas State1311-0--065.1
2019 Regular SeasonKansas State13545124065.1
2020 Regular SeasonKansas State7391.501-041

Related Context

Elijah Sullivan played LB for Kansas State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Elijah Sullivan recorded 143 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Kansas State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2019 Postseason

Kansas State paired 13 primary output with 30.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 28.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2020 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Texas Tech

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2020 Regular Season · Kansas State

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

28.2

Usage

6.5

Consistency

54.9

Best Game by takeover score

Texas Tech

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arkansas State: 0. Oklahoma: 1. Texas Tech: 1. TCU: 0.5. Kansas: 0. West Virginia: 1. Oklahoma State: 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. Arkansas State: 5 by 20.8. Oklahoma: 4 by 26.7. Texas Tech: 12 by 60. TCU: 6 by 30. Kansas: 3 by 12.5. West Virginia: 2 by 18.3. Oklahoma State: 7 by 29.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.6 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.3 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

Texas Tech

Best efficiency game

60 vs Texas Tech

Result
Sat 11/7vs Oklahoma StateL 18-2074000
Sat 10/31@ West VirginiaL 10-3721000
Sat 10/24vs KansasW 55-1433000
Sat 10/10@ TCUW 21-14640.5000
Sat 10/3vs Texas Tech10+ tacklesW 31-21129100
Sat 9/26@ OklahomaW 38-35410010
Sat 9/12vs Arkansas StateL 31-3555000

Player Story

Elijah Sullivan story

Elijah Sullivan built his college career from 2016 through 2020 as a linebacker from Tucker, GA, spending time with Kansas State. The clearest part of Elijah Sullivan's career was his defensive production: 143 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 2 interceptions across 38 career games in the available record. That gives Elijah Sullivan's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Kansas State

    2016-2020

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2016201720172018201920192020
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 Regular SeasonKansas State05.61.3
2017 PostseasonKansas State311.32.93
2017 Regular SeasonKansas State311.32.90
2018 Regular SeasonKansas State119.67.7-2
2019 PostseasonKansas State1330.88.812
2019 Regular SeasonKansas State1330.88.80
2020 Regular SeasonKansas State3.528.26.5-9.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Texas Tech

Week 5 · W 31-21 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

86.7 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 86.7 takeover score.

#2

vs Oklahoma

Week 9 · W 48-41 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

77.8 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 77.8 takeover score.

#3

@ Kansas

Week 9 · W 30-20 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

69.4 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 69.4 takeover score.

#4

vs Mississippi State

Week 2 · L 10-31

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Havoc Plays

68 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 68 takeover score.

#5

vs Iowa State

Week 14 · W 27-17 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

63.9 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 63.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2019 Postseason · Kansas State

13 primary output · 30.8 efficiency · 8.8 usage

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#2

2019 Regular Season · Kansas State

65.1

13 primary · 30.8 efficiency · 8.8 usage

#3

2020 Regular Season · Kansas State

41

3.5 primary · 28.2 efficiency · 6.5 usage

Milestones

8

Impact games

4

Splash games

2

10+ tackle games