Player Dossier

2015-2021

Tulsa

Elijah Taylor

DL • 6'3" • 280 lbs • Cincinnati, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Elijah Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

18%

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

23

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Tulsa

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Notre Dame • Tulsa
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: USC

Player Story

Elijah Taylor built his college career from 2015 through 2021 as a defensive lineman from Cincinnati, OH wearing No. 58, spending time with Notre Dame and Tulsa. The clearest part of Elijah Taylor's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2015 · Rating 0.8975

Archbishop Moeller · Cincinnati, OH

Committed To
Notre Dame
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2015

Elijah Taylor, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Postseason · Tulsa. Elijah Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
25
TFL
4
Sacks
2

Quick Answers

Elijah Taylor quick answers

Latest team and position
Tulsa · DL
Career Tackles
25
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 17 games
Best season
2021 Postseason · Tulsa
Top game
USC
Recruit profile
4-star · Archbishop Moeller · Notre Dame
High school pipeline
Archbishop Moeller · 50 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 58 · Senior
2021 Tackles rank
21 tackles · DL 307th (top 33%) · American Athletic 170th (top 34%) · National 1,923rd (top 33%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonNotre Dame00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonNotre Dame2410--034.3
2017 Regular SeasonNotre Dame00-0--0-
2021 PostseasonTulsa102-0--039.4
2021 Regular SeasonTulsa101932--039.4

Related Context

Elijah Taylor played DL for Notre Dame and Tulsa. Across 4 tracked seasons, Elijah Taylor recorded 25 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Tulsa.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Postseason

Tulsa paired 5 primary output with 13.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 13.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2021 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Notre Dame, Tulsa.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas State

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

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2021 Postseason · Tulsa

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

13.8

Usage

4.5

Consistency

6.7

Best Game by takeover score

Arkansas State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Old Dominion: 0. UC Davis: 0. Ohio State: 0. Arkansas State: 3. Houston: 0. Navy: 0. Cincinnati: 2. Tulane: 0. Temple: 0. SMU: 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. Old Dominion: 2 by 8.3. UC Davis: 1 by 4.2. Ohio State: 2 by 8.3. Arkansas State: 2 by 38.3. Houston: 4 by 16.7. Navy: 1 by 4.2. Cincinnati: 3 by 32.5. Tulane: 1 by 4.2. Temple: 4 by 16.7. SMU: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.6 · Games = 5 · +0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 5 · -0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Arkansas State

Best efficiency game

38.3 vs Arkansas State

Result
Mon 12/20vs Old DominionW 30-1720000
Sat 11/27@ SMUW 34-3111000
Sat 11/20vs TempleW 44-1041000
Sat 11/13@ TulaneW 20-1311000
Sat 11/6@ CincinnatiSplash gameL 20-2832110
Fri 10/29vs NavyL 17-2011000
Fri 10/1vs HoustonL 10-4542000
Sat 9/25vs Arkansas StateSplash gameW 41-3422210
Sat 9/18@ Ohio StateL 20-4122000
Thu 9/2vs UC DavisL 17-1910000

Player Story

Elijah Taylor story

Elijah Taylor built his college career from 2015 through 2021 as a defensive lineman from Cincinnati, OH wearing No. 58, spending time with Notre Dame and Tulsa. The clearest part of Elijah Taylor's career was his defensive production: 25 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 17 career games in the available record. That gives Elijah Taylor'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.

  1. 1

    Notre Dame

    2015-2017

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Tulsa

    2021

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20152016201720212021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonNotre Dame0
2016 Regular SeasonNotre Dame113.46.51
2017 Regular SeasonNotre Dame0-1
2021 PostseasonTulsa513.84.55
2021 Regular SeasonTulsa513.84.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ USC

Week 13 · L 27-45

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

74.2 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 74.2 takeover score.

#2

vs Arkansas State

Week 4 · W 41-34

3

Havoc Plays

73.6 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 73.6 takeover score.

#3

@ Cincinnati

Week 10 · L 20-28 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

66.4 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 66.4 takeover score.

#4

@ Troy

Week 7

1

Havoc Plays

59.2 takeover

Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Houston

Week 5 · L 10-45 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

15.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 15.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Postseason · Tulsa

5 primary output · 13.8 efficiency · 4.5 usage

39.4

#2

2021 Regular Season · Tulsa

39.4

5 primary · 13.8 efficiency · 4.5 usage

#3

2016 Regular Season · Notre Dame

34.3

1 primary · 13.4 efficiency · 6.5 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games