Player Dossier

2019-2021

Wake Forest

Royce Francis

DL • 6'3" • 260 lbs • Acworth, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Royce Francis shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

7

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Postseason · Wake Forest

19202021

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Wake Forest
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Elon
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2018 · Rating 0.8405

Allatoona · Acworth, GA

Committed To
Wake Forest
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2018

Royce Francis, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Postseason · Wake Forest. Royce Francis shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
17
TFL
1.5

Quick Answers

Royce Francis quick answers

Latest team and position
Wake Forest · DL
Career Tackles
17
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 8 games
Best season
2020 Postseason · Wake Forest
Top game
Elon
Recruit profile
3-star · Allatoona · Wake Forest
High school pipeline
Allatoona · 10 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 39 · Sophomore
2021 Tackles rank
1 tackles · DL 926th (top 98%) · ACC 627th (top 97%) · National 5,767th (top 97%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonWake Forest5121.50--036.1
2020 PostseasonWake Forest22-0--039.6
2020 Regular SeasonWake Forest22-0--039.6
2021 Regular SeasonWake Forest11-0--037

Related Context

Royce Francis played DL for Wake Forest. Across 3 tracked seasons, Royce Francis recorded 17 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Wake Forest.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Postseason

Wake Forest paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

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

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Norfolk State

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2021 Regular Season · Wake Forest

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.8

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Norfolk State

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All Games0 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Norfolk State

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Norfolk State

Result
Sat 9/11vs Norfolk StateW 41-1611000

Career Arc

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

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    Wake Forest

    2019-2021

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2019202020202021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonWake Forest1.5133
2020 PostseasonWake Forest08.31.3-1.5
2020 Regular SeasonWake Forest08.31.30
2021 Regular SeasonWake Forest04.20.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Elon

Week 4 · W 49-7

Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5

Havoc Plays

70 takeover

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 70 takeover score.

#2

@ Rice

Week 2 · W 41-21

0

Havoc Plays

15.5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 15.5 takeover score.

#3

@ Wisconsin

Week 1 · L 28-42 · Postseason

0

Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

#4

vs Clemson

Week 2 · L 13-37 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

6.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.1 takeover score.

#5

vs NC State

Week 10 · W 44-10 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Postseason · Wake Forest

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.3 usage

39.6

#2

2020 Regular Season · Wake Forest

39.6

0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 1.3 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · Wake Forest

37

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games