Player Dossier

2020-2024

UCF

Deshawn Pace

LB • 6'2" • 220 lbs • Cincinnati, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Deshawn Pace shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 26.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

50%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

63

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

57

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

71

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Cincinnati

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Cincinnati • UCF
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Baylor

Player Story

Deshawn Pace built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a linebacker from Cincinnati, OH wearing No. 3, spending time with Cincinnati and UCF. The clearest part of Deshawn Pace's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8367

Colerain · Cincinnati, OH

Committed To
Cincinnati
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Deshawn Pace, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Cincinnati. Deshawn Pace shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 26.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
301
TFL
29
Sacks
3
QB hurries
8
Passes defended
9
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Deshawn Pace quick answers

Latest team and position
UCF · LB
Career Tackles
301
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 52 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Cincinnati
Top game
Baylor
Recruit profile
3-star · Colerain · Cincinnati
High school pipeline
Colerain · 50 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 3 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
61 tackles · LB 208th (top 17%) · Big 12 44th (top 7%) · National 358th (top 6%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonCincinnati310-0--044.7
2021 PostseasonCincinnati1490.501-063.5
2021 Regular SeasonCincinnati148690.5-2063.5
2022 Regular SeasonCincinnati12555111236.9
2023 Regular SeasonCincinnati1180111.565071.9
2024 Regular SeasonUCF12613.50-1034.9

Related Context

Deshawn Pace played LB for Cincinnati and UCF. Across 5 tracked seasons, Deshawn Pace recorded 301 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Cincinnati.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Cincinnati paired 24.5 primary output with 52.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 26.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

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

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Cincinnati, UCF.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: TCU

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 91.7th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Regular Season · UCF

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

26.6

Usage

6.5

Consistency

32.1

Best Game by takeover score

TCU

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. New Hampshire: 1. Sam Houston: 0. TCU: 1. Colorado: 1. Florida: 0. Cincinnati: 0. Iowa State: 2. BYU: 0. Arizona: 0. Arizona State: 0.5. West Virginia: 1. Utah: 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. New Hampshire: 5 by 30.8. Sam Houston: 3 by 12.5. TCU: 11 by 55.8. Colorado: 3 by 22.5. Florida: 5 by 20.8. Cincinnati: 1 by 4.2. Iowa State: 6 by 45. BYU: 4 by 16.7. Arizona: 4 by 16.7. Arizona State: 6 by 30. West Virginia: 6 by 35. Utah: 7 by 29.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 4 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 8 · +0.1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

TCU

Best efficiency game

55.8 vs TCU

Result
Sat 11/30vs UtahL 14-2873000
Sat 11/23@ West VirginiaL 21-3161100
Sun 11/10@ Arizona StateL 31-35640.5000
Sat 11/2vs ArizonaW 56-1244000
Sat 10/26vs BYUL 24-3743000
Sat 10/19@ Iowa StateSplash gameL 35-3864101
Sat 10/12vs CincinnatiL 13-1911000
Sat 10/5@ FloridaL 13-2455000
Sat 9/28vs ColoradoL 21-48320010
Sat 9/14@ TCU10+ tacklesW 35-34118100
Sat 9/7vs Sam HoustonW 45-1432000
Thu 8/29vs New HampshireW 57-3530010

Player Story

Deshawn Pace story

Deshawn Pace built his college career from 2020 through 2024 as a linebacker from Cincinnati, OH wearing No. 3, spending time with Cincinnati and UCF. The clearest part of Deshawn Pace's career was his defensive production: 301 tackles, 29 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, and 8 interceptions across 52 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2021 with Cincinnati. 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 Deshawn Pace's production has multiple signals. With 52 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Cincinnati and UCF.

The arc is straightforward: Deshawn Pace 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

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

  1. 1

    Cincinnati

    2020-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UCF

    2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202020212021202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonCincinnati013.92.4
2021 PostseasonCincinnati1740.49.217
2021 Regular SeasonCincinnati1740.49.20
2022 Regular SeasonCincinnati926.65.8-8
2023 Regular SeasonCincinnati24.552.115.115.5
2024 Regular SeasonUCF6.526.66.5-18

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Baylor

Week 8 · L 29-32 · Conference game

Loss with 5.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5.5

Havoc Plays

98.6 takeover

5.5 disruption/tackle impact with 98.6 takeover score.

#2

vs UCF

Week 10 · L 26-28 · Conference game

5

Havoc Plays

92.8 takeover

Loss with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

5 disruption/tackle impact with 92.8 takeover score.

#3

@ BYU

Week 5 · L 27-35 · Conference game

4.5

Havoc Plays

88.1 takeover

Loss with 4.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4.5 disruption/tackle impact with 88.1 takeover score.

#4

@ Indiana

Week 3 · W 38-24

2

Havoc Plays

87.2 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 87.2 takeover score.

#5

@ Navy

Week 8 · W 27-20 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

85.8 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 85.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Cincinnati

24.5 primary output · 52.1 efficiency · 15.1 usage

71.9

#2

2021 Postseason · Cincinnati

63.5

17 primary · 40.4 efficiency · 9.2 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · Cincinnati

63.5

17 primary · 40.4 efficiency · 9.2 usage

Milestones

14

Impact games

13

Splash games

6

10+ tackle games