Player Dossier

2016-2019

Rice

D'Angelo Ellis

DB • 5'11" • 183 lbs • Houston, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

D'Angelo Ellis shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

26

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

32

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

29

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Rice

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Rice
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Prairie View A&M

Player Story

D'Angelo Ellis built his college career from 2016 through 2019 as a defensive back from Houston, TX wearing No. 12, spending time with Rice. The clearest part of D'Angelo Ellis' career was his defensive production:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2016 · Rating 0.7885

Cy Ridge · Houston, TX

Committed To
Rice
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2016

D'Angelo Ellis, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Rice. D'Angelo Ellis shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
29
Passes defended
7

Quick Answers

D'Angelo Ellis quick answers

Latest team and position
Rice · DB
Career Tackles
29
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 18 games
Best season
2016 Regular Season · Rice
Top game
Prairie View A&M
Recruit profile
2-star · Cy Ridge · Rice
High school pipeline
Cy Ridge · 20 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 12 · Junior
2019 Tackles rank
3 tackles · DB 724th (top 80%) · Conference USA 390th (top 63%) · National 3,757th (top 63%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2016 Regular SeasonRice711-0-3054.9
2017 Regular SeasonRice615-0-3028.3
2018 Regular SeasonRice30-0--033.3
2019 Regular SeasonRice23-0-1023.6

Related Context

D'Angelo Ellis played DB for Rice. Across 4 tracked seasons, D'Angelo Ellis recorded 82 receiving yards and 29 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2018 with Rice.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season

Rice paired 4 primary output with 13.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2019 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 11.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2019 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Wake Forest

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

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2019 Regular Season · Rice

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

11.3

Usage

1

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Wake Forest

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Army: 0. Wake Forest: 1

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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First Half0 · Games = 1 · -1 vs Second Half
Second Half1 · Games = 1 · +1 vs First Half

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Wake Forest

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs Wake Forest

Result
Sat 9/7vs Wake ForestL 21-4122001
Fri 8/30@ ArmyL 7-1411000

Player Story

D'Angelo Ellis story

D'Angelo Ellis built his college career from 2016 through 2019 as a defensive back from Houston, TX wearing No. 12, spending time with Rice. The clearest part of D'Angelo Ellis' career was his defensive production: 29 tackles, 1 interception, and 7 passes defended across 18 career games in the available record. His career also includes 82 receiving yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives D'Angelo Ellis' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Rice

    2016-2019

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2016201720182019
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 Regular SeasonRice413.75.9
2017 Regular SeasonRice315.42.1-1
2018 Regular SeasonRice000-3
2019 Regular SeasonRice111.311

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Prairie View A&M

Week 8 · W 65-44

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

73.3 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 73.3 takeover score.

#2

vs North Texas

Week 13 · L 14-30 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

54.2 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 54.2 takeover score.

#3

vs North Texas

Week 4 · L 35-42 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

43.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.3 takeover score.

#4

@ Western Kentucky

Week 1 · L 14-46 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

43.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.3 takeover score.

#5

vs Wake Forest

Week 2 · L 21-41

1

Havoc Plays

43.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Regular Season · Rice

4 primary output · 13.7 efficiency · 5.9 usage

54.9

#2

2018 Regular Season · Rice

33.3

0 primary · 0 efficiency · 0 usage

#3

2017 Regular Season · Rice

28.3

3 primary · 15.4 efficiency · 2.1 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games