Usage / Role
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Major defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Michigan
Damon Payne
DL • 6'4" • 311 lbs • Belleville, MI, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Damon Payne shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.7 disruption score.
Impact Production
84
High-end production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
68
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Michigan
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Alabama • Michigan
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Texas
5★
- Committed To
- Alabama
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2021
Damon Payne, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Michigan. Damon Payne shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.7 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 44
- TFL
- 4
- Sacks
- 0.5
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Damon Payne quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Michigan · DL
- Career Tackles
- 44
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 27 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · Michigan
- Top game
- Texas
- Recruit profile
- 5-star · Belleville · Alabama
- High school pipeline
- Nashville Christian · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 44 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 16 tackles · DL 445th (top 42%) · Big Ten 278th (top 36%) · National 2,331st (top 38%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Alabama | 3 | 5 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 12.6 |
| 2023 Postseason | Alabama | 7 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 20.1 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Alabama | 7 | 8 | 1 | 0.5 | - | - | 0 | 20.1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Alabama | 8 | 14 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 10.7 |
| 2025 Postseason | Michigan | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 34.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Michigan | 9 | 14 | 1 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 34.9 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
Damon Payne played DL for Alabama and Michigan. Across 4 tracked seasons, Damon Payne recorded 44 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Alabama.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
Michigan paired 3 primary output with 10.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 10.7 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 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Alabama, Michigan.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Texas
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Postseason · Michigan
Games
9
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
10.7
Usage
2.6
Consistency
7.4
Best Game by takeover score
Texas
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Texas: 2. New Mexico: 1. Oklahoma: 0. Central Michigan: 0. Wisconsin: 0. Washington: 0. Michigan State: 0. Northwestern: 0. Ohio State: 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. Texas: 2 by 28.3. New Mexico: 3 by 22.5. Oklahoma: 1 by 4.2. Central Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Wisconsin: 2 by 8.3. Washington: 1 by 4.2. Michigan State: 3 by 12.5. Northwestern: 1 by 4.2. Ohio State: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.2 · Games = 6 · -0.5 vs Losses
Losses0.7 · Games = 3 · +0.5 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
Texas
Best efficiency game
28.3 vs Texas
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 12/31 | @ TexasSplash game | L 27-41 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 11/29 | vs Ohio State | L 9-27 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | @ Northwestern | W 24-22 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | @ Michigan State | W 31-20 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | vs Washington | W 24-7 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | vs Wisconsin | W 24-10 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Central Michigan | W 63-3 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Oklahoma | L 13-24 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | vs New Mexico | W 34-17 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Alabama
2022-2024
Opening stop
- 2
Michigan
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
202220232023202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Alabama | 0.5 | 8.6 | 1.7 | — |
| 2023 Postseason | Alabama | 1.5 | 7.5 | 1.6 | 1 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Alabama | 1.5 | 7.5 | 1.6 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Alabama | 0.5 | 7.9 | 1.7 | -1 |
| 2025 Postseason | Michigan | 3 | 10.7 | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Michigan | 3 | 10.7 | 2.6 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 17 Texas
Week 1 · L 27-41 · Postseason · Ranked opponent
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
67.2 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 67.2 takeover score.
#2
@ Kentucky
Week 11 · W 49-21 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
52.5 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.5 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 73 New Mexico
Week 1 · W 34-17
1
Havoc Plays
37.8 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 37.8 takeover score.
#4
vs Missouri
Week 9 · W 34-0 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
35.8 takeover
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 35.8 takeover score.
#5
vs UL Monroe
Week 3 · W 63-7
0.5
Havoc Plays
29.4 takeover
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 29.4 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · Michigan
3 primary output · 10.7 efficiency · 2.6 usage
34.9
#2
2025 Regular Season · Michigan
34.9
3 primary · 10.7 efficiency · 2.6 usage
#3
2023 Postseason · Alabama
20.1
1.5 primary · 7.5 efficiency · 1.6 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
1
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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