Player Dossier

2020-2022

Alabama

Eli Ricks

DB • 6'2" • 190 lbs • Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Eli Ricks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.8 disruption score.

Usage Score

1.9

Efficiency

15.8

Consistency

13.3

Season Value

12.8

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season · LSU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
3
Program Path
LSU • Alabama
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Eli Ricks, DB. Best season Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season · LSU. Eli Ricks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.8 disruption score.

Eli Ricks played DB for LSU and Alabama. Across 3 tracked seasons, Eli Ricks recorded 38 tackles and 4 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2020 with LSU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

LSU paired 9.5 primary output with 22.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 15.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2022 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across LSU, Alabama.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Mississippi State

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2022 Regular Season · Alabama

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

15.8

Usage

1.9

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Auburn

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah State: 0. Mississippi State: 4. LSU: 0. Ole Miss: 0. Auburn: 1

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. Utah State: 2 by 8.3. Mississippi State: 2 by 48.3. LSU: 1 by 4.2. Ole Miss: 1 by 4.2. Auburn: 1 by 14.2

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins1.3 · Games = 4
First Half1.3 · Games = 3 · +0.8 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 2 · -0.8 vs First Half
All Games1 · Games = 5

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Mississippi State

Best efficiency game

48.3 vs Mississippi State

Result
Sat 11/26vs AuburnW 49-2711100
Sat 11/12@ Ole MissW 30-2410000
Sat 11/5@ LSUL 31-3211000
Sat 10/22vs Mississippi StateW 30-621004
Sat 9/3vs Utah StateW 55-022000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    LSU

    2020-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Alabama

    2022

    Final stop

Season Progression

202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonLSU9.522.34.5
2021 Regular SeasonLSU2.513.52.7-7
2022 Regular SeasonAlabama515.81.92.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Mississippi State

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4

Primary metric

4 disruption/tackle impact with 49.9 takeover score.

#2

Mississippi State

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 48.1 takeover score.

#3

Florida

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 46.6 takeover score.

#4

Alabama

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 46.4 takeover score.

#5

Vanderbilt

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 44.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2020 Regular Season · LSU

9.5 primary output · 22.3 efficiency · 4.5 usage

31.5

#2

2021 Regular Season · LSU

15.7

2.5 primary · 13.5 efficiency · 2.7 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Alabama

12.8

5 primary · 15.8 efficiency · 1.9 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

5★

Class 2020 · Rating 0.9928

IMG Academy · Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Committed To
LSU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Career Facts

2

Career teams

3

Seasons tracked

38

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 3 tracked seasons, 19 games, and base opponent context only. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.