Usage / Role
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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2021-2025Texas Tech
Lee Hunter
DL • 6'4" • 325 lbs • Mobile, AL, USA
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Lee Hunter shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.6 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
92
Blue-chip, NFL-level ceiling
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · UCF
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 3
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Auburn • UCF • Texas Tech
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Iowa State
Player Story
Lee Hunter built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Mobile, AL wearing No. 2, spending time with Auburn, Texas Tech, and UCF. The clearest part of Lee Hunter's career was his...
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- Committed To
- Auburn
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2021
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2026
- Selection
- Round 2 · Pick 17
- Overall
- No. 49
- NFL Team
- Carolina Panthers
Lee Hunter, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · UCF. Lee Hunter shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.6 disruption score.
Quick Answers
Lee Hunter quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Texas Tech · DL
- Career Tackles
- 154
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 44 games
- Best season
- 2023 Postseason · UCF
- Top game
- Iowa State
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Blount · Auburn
- High school pipeline
- Blount · 13 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2026 · Round 2 · Pick 17 · Carolina Panthers
- Latest roster
- No. 2 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 42 tackles · DL 41st (top 4%) · Big 12 94th (top 13%) · National 858th (top 14%)
Lee Hunter played DL for Auburn, UCF, and Texas Tech. Across 5 tracked seasons, Lee Hunter recorded 154 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with UCF.
Recognition
Honors
- 20252025 All-Big 12 · official_conference_selectionfirst
- 20242024 All-Big 12 · official_conference_selectionsecond
- 20232023 All-Big 12 · official_conference_selectionhonorable mention
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