Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2019-2020UTSA
Kevin Nelson
DL • 6'2" • 285 lbs • Fort Worth, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Kevin Nelson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
21
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
24
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
31
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · UTSA
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- UTSA
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: UTEP
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- Committed To
- UTSA
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2018
Kevin Nelson, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · UTSA. Kevin Nelson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 17
- QB hurries
- 1
- Passes defended
- 2
Quick Answers
Kevin Nelson quick answers
- Latest team and position
- UTSA · DL
- Career Tackles
- 17
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 11 games
- Best season
- 2020 Regular Season · UTSA
- Top game
- UTEP
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Arlington Heights · UTSA
- High school pipeline
- Arlington Heights · 9 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 94 · Sophomore
- 2020 Tackles rank
- 10 tackles · DL 402nd (top 50%) · Conference USA 223rd (top 42%) · National 2,176th (top 42%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | UTSA | 5 | 7 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 18.6 |
| 2020 Regular Season | UTSA | 6 | 10 | - | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 34.6 |
Related Context
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Kevin Nelson played DL for UTSA. Across 2 tracked seasons, Kevin Nelson recorded 17 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2020 with UTSA.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season
UTSA paired 2 primary output with 10.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2020 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 10.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2020 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: UTEP
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 · UTSA
Games
6
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
10.3
Usage
2.1
Consistency
11.1
Best Game by takeover score
UTEP
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Stephen F. Austin: 1. Middle Tennessee: 0. UAB: 0. Florida Atlantic: 0. UTEP: 1. Southern Miss: 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. Stephen F. Austin: 1 by 14.2. Middle Tennessee: 1 by 4.2. UAB: 2 by 8.3. Florida Atlantic: 3 by 12.5. UTEP: 2 by 18.3. Southern Miss: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.5 · Games = 4 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -0.5 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
6 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
UTEP
Best efficiency game
18.3 vs UTEP
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
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UTSA
2019-2020
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20192020
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | UTSA | 1 | 7.8 | 1.2 | — |
| 2020 Regular Season | UTSA | 2 | 10.3 | 2.1 | 1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs UTEP
Week 11 · W 52-21 · Conference game
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
57.5 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.5 takeover score.
#2
vs Southern Miss
Week 12 · L 17-36 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
44.2 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.2 takeover score.
#3
vs Stephen F. Austin
Week 3 · W 24-10
1
Havoc Plays
40.3 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.3 takeover score.
#4
@ Florida Atlantic
Week 9 · L 3-24 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
9.2 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.2 takeover score.
#5
@ UAB
Week 5 · L 13-21 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
8.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.3 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2020 Regular Season · UTSA
2 primary output · 10.3 efficiency · 2.1 usage
34.6
#2
2019 Regular Season · UTSA
18.6
1 primary · 7.8 efficiency · 1.2 usage
Milestones
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Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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