Player Dossier

2019-2024

UAB

Kevin Penn

DT • 6'4" • 310 lbs • Decatur, AL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kevin Penn shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

16

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

7

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

26

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · UAB

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
UAB
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Florida Atlantic

Player Story

Kevin Penn built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a defensive tackle from Decatur, AL wearing No. 92, spending time with UAB. The clearest part of Kevin Penn's career was his defensive production: 81...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.8056

Austin · Decatur, AL

Committed To
UAB
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

Kevin Penn, DT. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · UAB. Kevin Penn shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
81
TFL
4.5
Sacks
4
QB hurries
6

Quick Answers

Kevin Penn quick answers

Latest team and position
UAB · DT
Career Tackles
81
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 6 entries · 31 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · UAB
Top game
Florida Atlantic
Recruit profile
3-star · Austin · UAB
High school pipeline
Austin · 11 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 92 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
16 tackles · DT 115th (top 49%) · American Athletic 246th (top 38%) · National 2,338th (top 39%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonUAB00-0--0-
2020 Regular SeasonUAB00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonUAB610-0--039.6
2022 Regular SeasonUAB712-02-015.3
2023 Regular SeasonUAB11434.544-060.6
2024 Regular SeasonUAB716-0--042

Related Context

Kevin Penn played DT for UAB. Across 6 tracked seasons, Kevin Penn recorded 81 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with UAB.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

UAB paired 12.5 primary output with 27.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 9.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2024 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Army

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

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2024 Regular Season · UAB

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

9.5

Usage

2

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Army

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Alcorn State: 0. UL Monroe: 0. Navy: 0. Army: 0. Tulsa: 0. UConn: 0. Charlotte: 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. Alcorn State: 2 by 8.3. UL Monroe: 2 by 8.3. Navy: 2 by 8.3. Army: 4 by 16.7. Tulsa: 4 by 16.7. UConn: 1 by 4.2. Charlotte: 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 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 5 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Army

Best efficiency game

16.7 vs Tulsa

Result
Sat 11/30@ CharlotteL 27-2910000
Sat 11/9vs UConnL 23-3111000
Sat 11/2vs TulsaW 59-2143000
Sat 10/12@ ArmyL 10-4441000
Sat 9/28vs NavyL 18-4120000
Sat 9/7@ UL MonroeL 6-3220000
Fri 8/30vs Alcorn StateW 41-322000

Player Story

Kevin Penn story

Kevin Penn built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a defensive tackle from Decatur, AL wearing No. 92, spending time with UAB. The clearest part of Kevin Penn's career was his defensive production: 81 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, and 4 sacks across 31 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2023 with UAB. 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 Kevin Penn's production has multiple signals. With 31 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across UAB.

The arc is straightforward: Kevin Penn 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

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    UAB

    2019-2024

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201920202021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonUAB0
2020 Regular SeasonUAB00
2021 Regular SeasonUAB071.40
2022 Regular SeasonUAB2103.12
2023 Regular SeasonUAB12.527.68.110.5
2024 Regular SeasonUAB09.52-12.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Florida Atlantic

Week 10 · W 45-42 · Conference game

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4

Havoc Plays

86.9 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 86.9 takeover score.

#2

@ Tulane

Week 5 · L 23-35 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

60.8 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.8 takeover score.

#3

vs Louisiana

Week 3 · L 21-41

2

Havoc Plays

60.8 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.8 takeover score.

#4

@ Rice

Week 5 · L 24-28 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

60.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60.6 takeover score.

#5

@ Florida Atlantic

Week 9 · L 17-24 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

59.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 59.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · UAB

12.5 primary output · 27.6 efficiency · 8.1 usage

60.6

#2

2024 Regular Season · UAB

42

0 primary · 9.5 efficiency · 2 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · UAB

39.6

0 primary · 7 efficiency · 1.4 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

4

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games