Player Dossier

2022-2024

Pittsburgh

Elliot Donald

DL • 6'3" • 275 lbs • Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Elliot Donald shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10 disruption score.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

22

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

8

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

31

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · Pittsburgh

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Pittsburgh
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UCLA
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.9449

Central Catholic · Pittsburgh, PA

Committed To
Pittsburgh
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Elliot Donald, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · Pittsburgh. Elliot Donald shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
11
TFL
1
Sacks
0.5
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Elliot Donald quick answers

Latest team and position
Pittsburgh · DL
Career Tackles
11
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 9 games
Best season
2022 Postseason · Pittsburgh
Top game
UCLA
Recruit profile
4-star · Central Catholic · Pittsburgh
High school pipeline
Central Catholic · 42 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 94 · Junior
2024 Tackles rank
6 tackles · DL 698th (top 68%) · ACC 414th (top 54%) · National 3,293rd (top 54%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 PostseasonPittsburgh310.50.5--058
2022 Regular SeasonPittsburgh32-0-1058
2023 Regular SeasonPittsburgh22-0--036.8
2024 Regular SeasonPittsburgh460.501-036.4

Related Context

Elliot Donald played DL for Pittsburgh. Across 3 tracked seasons, Elliot Donald recorded 11 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Pittsburgh.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Postseason

Pittsburgh paired 2 primary output with 10.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2024 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Youngstown State

Win with 1 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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2024 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

10

Usage

2.6

Consistency

38.9

Best Game by takeover score

Youngstown State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Cincinnati: 0.5. West Virginia: 0. Youngstown State: 1. North Carolina: 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. Cincinnati: 2 by 13.3. West Virginia: 1 by 4.2. Youngstown State: 0 by 10. North Carolina: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.3 · Games = 2 · -0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs First Half

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Youngstown State

Best efficiency game

13.3 vs Cincinnati

Result
Sat 10/5@ North CarolinaW 34-2431000
Sat 9/21vs Youngstown StateW 73-1700000
Sat 9/14vs West VirginiaW 38-3410000
Sat 9/7@ CincinnatiW 28-27200.5000

Career Arc

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

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    Pittsburgh

    2022-2024

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2022202220232024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 PostseasonPittsburgh210.96.7
2022 Regular SeasonPittsburgh210.96.70
2023 Regular SeasonPittsburgh04.20.8-2
2024 Regular SeasonPittsburgh1.5102.61.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ UCLA

Week 1 · W 37-35 · Postseason

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

71.4 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 71.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Youngstown State

Week 4 · W 73-17

1

Havoc Plays

49.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.2 takeover score.

#3

vs Rhode Island

Week 4 · W 45-24

1

Havoc Plays

40.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.6 takeover score.

#4

@ Cincinnati

Week 2 · W 28-27

0.5

Havoc Plays

29.7 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 29.7 takeover score.

#5

@ North Carolina

Week 6 · W 34-24 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Postseason · Pittsburgh

2 primary output · 10.9 efficiency · 6.7 usage

58

#2

2022 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

58

2 primary · 10.9 efficiency · 6.7 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

36.8

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games