Player Dossier

2019-2025

Norfolk State

Kendric Nowling

LB • 6'2" • 230 lbs • Chicago, IL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kendric Nowling shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 33.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

Role sample still building

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Impact Production

33

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

60

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Norfolk State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
7
Program Path
Eastern Michigan • Norfolk State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Rutgers

Player Story

Kendric Nowling built his college career from 2019 through 2025 as a linebacker from Chicago, IL wearing No. 32, spending time with Eastern Michigan and Norfolk State. The clearest part of Kendric Nowling's career...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.7956

Marist · Chicago, IL

Committed To
Eastern Michigan
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

Kendric Nowling, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Norfolk State. Kendric Nowling shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 33.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
32
Touchdowns
4

Quick Answers

Kendric Nowling quick answers

Latest team and position
Norfolk State · LB
Career Tackles
32
Tracked sample
7 unique seasons · 7 entries · 22 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Norfolk State
Top game
Rutgers
Recruit profile
2-star · Marist · Eastern Michigan
High school pipeline
Marist · 20 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 32 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan00-0--0-
2020 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan23-0--037.7
2021 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan36-0--039.5
2022 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan34-0--038
2023 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan67-0--237.1
2024 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan712-0--239.4
2025 Regular SeasonNorfolk State10-0--066.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Eastern Michigan to UnlistedG5/FCS to Unlisted16.6May 11, 2025

Kendric Nowling played LB for Eastern Michigan and Norfolk State. Across 7 tracked seasons, Kendric Nowling recorded 32 tackles and 4 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Eastern Michigan.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Norfolk State paired 0 primary output with 33.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 33.3 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on 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 Eastern Michigan, Norfolk State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Rutgers

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

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2025 Regular Season · Norfolk State

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

33.3

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Rutgers

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Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Rutgers

Best efficiency game

33.3 vs Rutgers

Result
Sat 9/13@ Rutgers84000

Player Story

Kendric Nowling story

Kendric Nowling built his college career from 2019 through 2025 as a linebacker from Chicago, IL wearing No. 32, spending time with Eastern Michigan and Norfolk State. The clearest part of Kendric Nowling's career was his defensive production: 32 tackles across 22 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Eastern Michigan. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Kendric Nowling's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 44 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 22 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Eastern Michigan and Norfolk State.

The arc is straightforward: Kendric Nowling moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Eastern Michigan

    2019-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Norfolk State

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2019202020212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan0
2020 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan06.30.80
2021 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan08.31.20
2022 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan05.610
2023 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan04.90.80
2024 Regular SeasonEastern Michigan07.11.30
2025 Regular SeasonNorfolk State033.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 72 Rutgers

Week 3

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

16.7 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 16.7 takeover score.

#2

vs St. Francis (PA)

Week 4 · W 36-0

0

Havoc Plays

11.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.7 takeover score.

#3

@ Northern Illinois

Week 5 · L 20-27 · 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.

#4

@ Kent State

Week 5 · W 52-33 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8 takeover score.

#5

@ Massachusetts

Week 3 · W 42-28

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Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Norfolk State

0 primary output · 33.3 efficiency · usage

66.7

#2

2021 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan

39.5

0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 1.2 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan

39.4

0 primary · 7.1 efficiency · 1.3 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games