Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2016-2017Miami
Malek Young
DB • 5'9" • 180 lbs • Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Malek Young shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.1 disruption score.
Impact Production
65
Solid production for a defensive back
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Reliability
59
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
77
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Miami
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Miami
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: NC State
Player Story
Malek Young built his college career from 2016 through 2017 as a defensive back from Ft. Lauderdale, FL wearing No. 12, spending time with Miami. The clearest part of Malek Young's career was his defensive...
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Malek Young, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · Miami. Malek Young shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.1 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 64
- TFL
- 3
- Passes defended
- 7
Quick Answers
Malek Young quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Miami · DB
- Career Tackles
- 64
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 19 games
- Best season
- 2017 Regular Season · Miami
- Top game
- NC State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Princeton
- High school pipeline
- Princeton · 29 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 12 · Class 2017
- 2017 Tackles rank
- 41 tackles · DB 220th (top 28%) · ACC 110th (top 19%) · National 955th (top 17%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Regular Season | Miami | 7 | 23 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 15.1 |
| 2017 Regular Season | Miami | 12 | 41 | 3 | 0 | - | 7 | 0 | 53 |
Related Context
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Malek Young played DB for Miami. Across 2 tracked seasons, Malek Young recorded 64 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with Miami.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season
Miami paired 12 primary output with 25.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2017 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 25.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2017 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Toledo
Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 91.7th percentile of the selected season.
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2017 Regular Season · Miami
Games
12
Havoc Plays / G
1
Efficiency
25.1
Usage
4.1
Consistency
52.8
Best Game by takeover score
Toledo
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Bethune-Cookman: 2. Toledo: 2.5. Duke: 3. Florida State: 1.5. Georgia Tech: 0. Syracuse: 1. North Carolina: 1. Virginia Tech: 0. Notre Dame: 1. Virginia: 0. Pittsburgh: 0. Clemson: 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. Bethune-Cookman: 1 by 24.2. Toledo: 7 by 54.2. Duke: 3 by 42.5. Florida State: 5 by 35.8. Georgia Tech: 2 by 8.3. Syracuse: 2 by 18.3. North Carolina: 2 by 18.3. Virginia Tech: 7 by 29.2. Virginia: 4 by 16.7. Pittsburgh: 5 by 20.8. Clemson: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
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Wins1.2 · Games = 10 · +1.2 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -1.2 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
12 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Toledo
Best efficiency game
54.2 vs Toledo
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 12/3 | @ Clemson | L 3-38 | 3 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 11/24 | @ Pittsburgh | L 14-24 | 5 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/18 | vs Virginia | W 44-28 | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/12 | vs Notre Dame | W 41-8 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Sun 11/5 | vs Virginia Tech | W 28-10 | 7 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/28 | @ North Carolina | W 24-19 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/21 | vs Syracuse | W 27-19 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/14 | vs Georgia Tech | W 25-24 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/7 | @ Florida State | W 24-20 | 5 | 2 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Fri 9/29 | @ DukeSplash game | W 31-6 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | — | — |
| Sat 9/23 | vs ToledoSplash game | W 52-30 | 7 | 5 | — | 1.50 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/2 | vs Bethune-CookmanSplash game | W 41-13 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Malek Young story
Malek Young built his college career from 2016 through 2017 as a defensive back from Ft. Lauderdale, FL wearing No. 12, spending time with Miami. The clearest part of Malek Young's career was his defensive production: 64 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 3 interceptions, and 7 passes defended across 19 career games in the available record. That gives Malek Young's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Miami
2016-2017
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20162017
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 Regular Season | Miami | 1 | 15.1 | 3.9 | — |
| 2017 Regular Season | Miami | 12 | 25.1 | 4.1 | 11 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ NC State
Week 12 · W 27-13 · Conference game
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
78.3 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 78.3 takeover score.
#2
vs Toledo
Week 4 · W 52-30
2.5
Havoc Plays
74.7 takeover
Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.
#3
vs Bethune-Cookman
Week 1 · W 41-13
2
Havoc Plays
60.3 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.3 takeover score.
#4
@ Duke
Week 5 · W 31-6 · Conference game
3
Havoc Plays
52.2 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 52.2 takeover score.
#5
@ Florida State
Week 6 · W 24-20 · Conference game
1.5
Havoc Plays
43.9 takeover
Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 43.9 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2017 Regular Season · Miami
12 primary output · 25.1 efficiency · 4.1 usage
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#2
2016 Regular Season · Miami
15.1
1 primary · 15.1 efficiency · 3.9 usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
3
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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