Player Dossier

2020-2025

Virginia

Devin Neal

S • 6'0" • 214 lbs • Lexington, KY, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Devin Neal shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 32.6 disruption score.

Usage Score

5.9

Efficiency

32.6

Consistency

14.3

Season Value

16.1

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season · Louisville

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Seasons Tracked
9
Program Path
Baylor • Louisville • Virginia
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Notre Dame

Scouting Read

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Devin Neal, S. Best season Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season · Louisville. Devin Neal shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 32.6 disruption score.

Devin Neal played S for Baylor, Louisville, and Virginia. Across 6 tracked seasons, Devin Neal recorded 236 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Virginia.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Louisville paired 0 primary output with 9.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 32.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Baylor, Louisville, Virginia.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: NC State

Loss with 2 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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2025 Postseason · Virginia

Games

14

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

32.6

Usage

5.9

Consistency

14.3

Best Game by takeover score

Missouri

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Missouri: 1. Coastal Carolina: 0. NC State: 2. Unknown: 1. Stanford: 1. Florida State: 0. Louisville: 2. Washington State: 0. North Carolina: 0. California: 0. Wake Forest: 0. Duke: 2. Virginia Tech: 0. Duke: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Missouri: 11 by 55.8. Coastal Carolina: 2 by 8.3. NC State: 6 by 45. Unknown: 3 by 22.5. Stanford: 3 by 22.5. Florida State: 12 by 50. Louisville: 4 by 36.7. Washington State: 10 by 41.7. North Carolina: 7 by 29.2. California: 5 by 20.8. Wake Forest: 8 by 33.3. Duke: 6 by 45. Virginia Tech: 4 by 16.7. Duke: 7 by 29.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.6 · Games = 10 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.7 · Games = 3 · +0.1 vs Wins
First Half1 · Games = 7 · +0.7 vs Second Half
Second Half0.3 · Games = 7 · -0.7 vs First Half

Game Log

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

14 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

NC State

Best efficiency game

55.8 vs Missouri

Result
Sun 12/28@ Missouri10+ tacklesW 13-7116001
Sun 12/7vs DukeL 20-2774000
Sun 11/30vs Virginia TechW 27-742000
Sat 11/15@ DukeW 34-1764002
Sun 11/9vs Wake ForestL 9-1683000
Sat 11/1@ CaliforniaW 31-2151000
Sat 10/25@ North CarolinaW 17-1672000
Sat 10/18vs Washington State10+ tacklesW 22-20106000
Sat 10/4@ LouisvilleW 30-2744002
Fri 9/26vs Florida State10+ tacklesW 46-38123000
Sat 9/20vs StanfordW 48-2032001
Sat 9/13vs Unknown310.500.500
Sat 9/6@ NC StateL 31-3563101
Sat 8/30vs Coastal CarolinaW 48-720000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Baylor

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Louisville

    2023-2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Virginia

    2025

    Final stop

Season Progression

202020212021202220232023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonBaylor06.31.2
2021 PostseasonBaylor113.241
2021 Regular SeasonBaylor113.240
2022 Regular SeasonBaylor6219.95
2023 PostseasonLouisville1333.18.17
2023 Regular SeasonLouisville1333.18.10
2024 Regular SeasonLouisville09.41.9-13
2025 PostseasonVirginia932.65.99
2025 Regular SeasonVirginia932.65.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Notre Dame

Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5

Primary metric

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 61.5 takeover score.

#2

BYU

3

Primary metric

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 60.4 takeover score.

#3

NC State

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 53.3 takeover score.

#4

Duke

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 50.1 takeover score.

#5

Louisville

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 46.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2024 Regular Season · Louisville

0 primary output · 9.4 efficiency · 1.9 usage

37.1

#2

2020 Regular Season · Baylor

35.8

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1.2 usage

#3

2023 Postseason · Louisville

22.5

13 primary · 33.1 efficiency · 8.1 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

3

Splash games

4

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

4★

Class 2026 · Rating 0.902

Platte County · Platte City, MO

Committed To
UCF
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2026

Career Facts

3

Career teams

9

Seasons tracked

236

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 9 tracked seasons, 52 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.