Player Dossier

2024-2025

Illinois

Gentle Hunt

DL • 5'11" • 305 lbs • High Springs, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Gentle Hunt shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

10%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

38

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

21

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

49

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Illinois

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Illinois
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: South Florida

Gentle Hunt, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Illinois. Gentle Hunt shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
11
TFL
2
Sacks
0.5
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Gentle Hunt quick answers

Latest team and position
Illinois · DL
Career Tackles
11
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 8 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Illinois
Top game
South Florida
High school pipeline
Gainesville · 19 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 92 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
9 tackles · DL 656th (top 61%) · Big Ten 375th (top 48%) · National 3,027th (top 49%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonIllinois220.50-1033.6
2025 Regular SeasonIllinois491.50.5--025.8

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024Unlisted to IllinoisUnlisted to P480Dec 28, 2023

Gentle Hunt played DL for Illinois. Across 2 tracked seasons, Gentle Hunt recorded 11 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Illinois.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Illinois paired 1.5 primary output with 11.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Western Illinois

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Illinois

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

14.4

Usage

3.7

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Western Illinois

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Illinois: 2. Duke: 0. USC: 0. Northwestern: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Western Illinois: 4 by 36.7. Duke: 3 by 12.5. USC: 1 by 4.2. Northwestern: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

First Half1 · Games = 2 · +1 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 2 · -1 vs First Half

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Western Illinois

Best efficiency game

36.7 vs Western Illinois

Result
Sun 11/30vs NorthwesternW 20-1310000
Sat 9/27vs USCW 34-3210000
Sat 9/6@ DukeW 45-1931000
Fri 8/29vs Western IllinoisSplash gameW 52-3431.500.500

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Illinois

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonIllinois1.511.71.6
2025 Regular SeasonIllinois214.43.70.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ South Florida

Week 2

Game with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4

Havoc Plays

80.4 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 80.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Western Illinois

Week 1 · W 52-3

2

Havoc Plays

75 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 75 takeover score.

#3

@ Northwestern

Week 14 · W 38-28 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Michigan State

Week 12 · W 38-16 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

29.7 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 29.7 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 44 Duke

Week 2 · W 45-19

0

Havoc Plays

11.4 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Illinois

1.5 primary output · 11.7 efficiency · 1.6 usage

33.6

#2

2025 Regular Season · Illinois

25.8

2 primary · 14.4 efficiency · 3.7 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games