Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2020-2024Bowling Green
Ali Saad
DL • 6'3" • 280 lbs • Dearborn, MI, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Ali Saad shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.8 disruption score.
Impact Production
50
Solid production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
40
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
72
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Bowling Green
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Minnesota • Bowling Green
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas State
Player Story
Ali Saad built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from Dearborn, MI wearing No. 99, spending time with Bowling Green and Minnesota. The clearest part of Ali Saad's career was his...
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- Committed To
- Cincinnati
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2026
Ali Saad, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Bowling Green. Ali Saad shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.8 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 76
- TFL
- 12.5
- Sacks
- 5.5
- QB hurries
- 6
Quick Answers
Ali Saad quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Bowling Green · DL
- Career Tackles
- 76
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 31 games
- Best season
- 2024 Postseason · Bowling Green
- Top game
- Arkansas State
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Avon · Cincinnati
- High school pipeline
- Avon · 17 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 99 · Senior
- 2024 Tackles rank
- 40 tackles · DL 62nd (top 7%) · Mid-American 86th (top 16%) · National 935th (top 16%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Minnesota | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 10 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 3 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.4 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 9 | 24 | 3 | 1.5 | 3 | - | 0 | 36.5 |
| 2024 Postseason | Bowling Green | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | 63.6 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 13 | 37 | 7.5 | 3 | 2 | - | 0 | 63.6 |
Related Context
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Ali Saad played DL for Minnesota and Bowling Green. Across 5 tracked seasons, Ali Saad recorded 76 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Bowling Green.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason
Bowling Green paired 15.5 primary output with 24.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
2023 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 19.4 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2024 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 Minnesota, Bowling Green.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Akron
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2023 Regular Season · Bowling Green
Games
9
Havoc Plays / G
0.8
Efficiency
19.4
Usage
5.2
Consistency
34.8
Best Game by takeover score
Akron
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Liberty: 0. Eastern Illinois: 1.5. Ohio: 1. Miami (OH): 0.5. Buffalo: 0. Akron: 3. Ball State: 1. Toledo: 0.5. Western Michigan: 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. Liberty: 1 by 4.2. Eastern Illinois: 3 by 27.5. Ohio: 0 by 10. Miami (OH): 6 by 30. Buffalo: 1 by 4.2. Akron: 3 by 42.5. Ball State: 6 by 35. Toledo: 2 by 13.3. Western Michigan: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.1 · Games = 5 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 4 · -0.6 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
9 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Akron
Best efficiency game
42.5 vs Akron
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 11/22 | @ Western Michigan | W 34-10 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Wed 11/15 | vs Toledo | L 31-32 | 2 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Wed 11/1 | vs Ball State | W 24-21 | 6 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/21 | vs AkronSplash game | W 41-14 | 3 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/14 | @ Buffalo | W 24-14 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/7 | @ Miami (OH) | L 0-27 | 6 | 5 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/23 | vs Ohio | L 7-38 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/9 | vs Eastern Illinois | W 38-15 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/2 | @ Liberty | L 24-34 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Ali Saad story
Ali Saad built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from Dearborn, MI wearing No. 99, spending time with Bowling Green and Minnesota. The clearest part of Ali Saad's career was his defensive production: 76 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss, and 5.5 sacks across 31 career games in the available record. That gives Ali Saad's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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- 1
Minnesota
2020
Opening stop
- 2
Bowling Green
2021-2024
Final stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | Minnesota | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2021 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 1 | 7.9 | 2.4 | 1 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 0 | 4.2 | 0.6 | -1 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 7.5 | 19.4 | 5.2 | 7.5 |
| 2024 Postseason | Bowling Green | 15.5 | 24.8 | 8.5 | 8 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Bowling Green | 15.5 | 24.8 | 8.5 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Arkansas State
Week 1 · L 31-38 · Postseason
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
80.8 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 80.8 takeover score.
#2
vs Akron
Week 8 · W 41-14 · Conference game
3
Havoc Plays
78.6 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 78.6 takeover score.
#3
@ Central Michigan
Week 11 · W 23-13 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
70.6 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 70.6 takeover score.
#4
@ Kent State
Week 5 · L 20-27 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
69.4 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 69.4 takeover score.
#5
@ Ball State
Week 13 · W 38-13 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
67.8 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.8 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Postseason · Bowling Green
15.5 primary output · 24.8 efficiency · 8.5 usage
63.6
#2
2024 Regular Season · Bowling Green
63.6
15.5 primary · 24.8 efficiency · 8.5 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Bowling Green
36.5
7.5 primary · 19.4 efficiency · 5.2 usage
Milestones
7
Impact games
6
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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