Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2021-2025Sam Houston
Zeiqui Lawton
DL • 6'1" • 260 lbs • Charleston, WV, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Zeiqui Lawton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.9 disruption score.
Impact Production
44
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
36
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
60
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 3
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Cincinnati • West Virginia • Sam Houston
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Western Kentucky
Player Story
Zeiqui Lawton built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Charleston, WV wearing No. 33, spending time with Cincinnati, Sam Houston, and West Virginia. The clearest part of Zeiqui...
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- Committed To
- Cincinnati
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2021
Zeiqui Lawton, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston. Zeiqui Lawton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.9 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 14
- TFL
- 3.5
- Sacks
- 1.5
- QB hurries
- 2
Quick Answers
Zeiqui Lawton quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Sam Houston · DL
- Career Tackles
- 14
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 9 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston
- Top game
- Western Kentucky
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · South Charleston · Cincinnati
- High school pipeline
- South Charleston · 4 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 33 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 13 tackles · DL 566th (top 53%) · Conference USA 241st (top 44%) · National 2,659th (top 43%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Cincinnati | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2022 Regular Season | West Virginia | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | West Virginia | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 33.6 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Sam Houston | 8 | 13 | 3 | 1.5 | 2 | - | 0 | 51.9 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Sam Houston to Unlisted | G5/FCS to Unlisted | 21.2 | Jan 2, 2026 |
Zeiqui Lawton played DL for Cincinnati, West Virginia, and Sam Houston. Across 4 tracked seasons, Zeiqui Lawton recorded 14 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Sam Houston.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Sam Houston paired 6.5 primary output with 14.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 14.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Cincinnati, West Virginia, Sam Houston.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Western Kentucky
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
0.8
Efficiency
14.9
Usage
5.3
Consistency
48.4
Best Game by takeover score
Western Kentucky
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Western Kentucky: 2. Hawai'i: 1. Texas: 1. New Mexico State: 0.5. Jacksonville State: 0. Oregon State: 2. Delaware: 0. Middle Tennessee: 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. Western Kentucky: 2 by 28.3. Hawai'i: 0 by 10. Texas: 2 by 18.3. New Mexico State: 4 by 21.7. Jacksonville State: 1 by 4.2. Oregon State: 2 by 28.3. Delaware: 1 by 4.2. Middle Tennessee: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.8 · Games = 6 · -0.3 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Western Kentucky
Best efficiency game
28.3 vs Oregon State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/22 | @ Middle Tennessee | L 17-31 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/16 | vs Delaware | W 26-23 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/9 | @ Oregon StateSplash game | W 21-17 | 2 | 1 | — | 1.50 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 10/10 | vs Jacksonville State | L 27-29 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 10/3 | @ New Mexico State | L 10-37 | 4 | 2 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/21 | @ Texas | L 0-55 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/7 | @ Hawai'i | L 20-37 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/23 | @ Western KentuckySplash game | L 24-41 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Zeiqui Lawton story
Zeiqui Lawton built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Charleston, WV wearing No. 33, spending time with Cincinnati, Sam Houston, and West Virginia. The clearest part of Zeiqui Lawton's career was his defensive production: 14 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 1.5 sacks across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Zeiqui Lawton's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
Cincinnati
2021
Opening stop
- 2
West Virginia
2022-2023
Peak year stop
- 3
Sam Houston
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Cincinnati | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2022 Regular Season | West Virginia | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | West Virginia | 0.5 | 9.2 | 2.1 | 0.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Sam Houston | 6.5 | 14.9 | 5.3 | 6 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 69 Western Kentucky
Week 1 · L 24-41 · Conference game
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
71.9 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.9 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 126 Oregon State
Week 11 · W 21-17
2
Havoc Plays
71.1 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.1 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 17 Texas
Week 4 · L 0-55 · Ranked opponent
1
Havoc Plays
41.9 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 41.9 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 68 Hawai'i
Week 2 · L 20-37
1
Havoc Plays
37.5 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 37.5 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 123 New Mexico State
Week 6 · L 10-37 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
33.3 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 33.3 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Sam Houston
6.5 primary output · 14.9 efficiency · 5.3 usage
51.9
#2
2023 Regular Season · West Virginia
33.6
0.5 primary · 9.2 efficiency · 2.1 usage
#3
2021 Regular Season · Cincinnati
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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