Player Dossier

2019-2023

Washington State

Ahmad McCullough

LB • 6'2" • 223 lbs • Baltimore, MD, USA

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Ahmad McCullough shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

30%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

41

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

49

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

48

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Maryland

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Maryland • Washington State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Indiana

Player Story

Ahmad McCullough built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a linebacker from Baltimore, MD wearing No. 9, spending time with Maryland and Washington State. The clearest part of Ahmad McCullough's career was...

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Ahmad McCullough, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Maryland. Ahmad McCullough shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
92
TFL
5.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Ahmad McCullough quick answers

Latest team and position
Washington State · LB
Career Tackles
92
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 31 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · Maryland
Top game
Indiana
Latest roster
No. 9 · Senior
2023 Tackles rank
3 tackles · LB 947th (top 78%) · Pac-12 354th (top 66%) · National 3,711th (top 62%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonMaryland00-0--0-
2020 Regular SeasonMaryland5152.50--029.9
2021 Regular SeasonMaryland1029-0--043.9
2022 Regular SeasonMaryland1245311-043.6
2023 Regular SeasonWashington State33-0--037.1

Related Context

Ahmad McCullough played LB for Maryland and Washington State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Ahmad McCullough recorded 92 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Maryland.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

Maryland paired 0 primary output with 12.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 17.5 efficiency.

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Career value cooled off

2023 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Maryland, Washington State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Indiana

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2020 Regular Season · Maryland

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

17.5

Usage

4.7

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Indiana

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Northwestern: 0. Minnesota: 0. Penn State: 1. Indiana: 1.5. Rutgers: 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. Northwestern: 2 by 8.3. Minnesota: 1 by 4.2. Penn State: 3 by 22.5. Indiana: 4 by 31.7. Rutgers: 5 by 20.8

Split Comparison

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Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Indiana

Best efficiency game

31.7 vs Indiana

Result
Sat 12/12vs RutgersL 24-2755000
Sat 11/28@ IndianaL 11-27431.5000
Sat 11/7@ Penn StateW 35-1931100
Fri 10/30vs MinnesotaW 45-4410000
Sat 10/24@ NorthwesternL 3-4321000

Player Story

Ahmad McCullough story

Ahmad McCullough built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a linebacker from Baltimore, MD wearing No. 9, spending time with Maryland and Washington State. The clearest part of Ahmad McCullough's career was his defensive production: 92 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 31 career games in the available record. That gives Ahmad McCullough'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

    Maryland

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Washington State

    2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20192020202120222023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonMaryland0
2020 Regular SeasonMaryland2.517.54.72.5
2021 Regular SeasonMaryland012.12.3-2.5
2022 Regular SeasonMaryland519.85.25
2023 Regular SeasonWashington State04.20.9-5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Indiana

Week 13 · L 11-27 · Conference game

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5

Havoc Plays

77.2 takeover

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 77.2 takeover score.

#2

vs Rutgers

Week 13 · W 37-0 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

74.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.

#3

vs Michigan State

Week 5 · W 27-13 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

64.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.4 takeover score.

#4

@ Indiana

Week 7 · W 38-33 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

54.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 54.7 takeover score.

#5

vs Buffalo

Week 1 · W 31-10

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Havoc Plays

47.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · Maryland

0 primary output · 12.1 efficiency · 2.3 usage

43.9

#2

2022 Regular Season · Maryland

43.6

5 primary · 19.8 efficiency · 5.2 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Washington State

37.1

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games