Player Dossier

2021-2025

USC

Keeshawn Silver

DT • 6'4" • 330 lbs • Rocky Mount, NC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Keeshawn Silver shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

68%

Regular defensive contributor

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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

86

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · North Carolina

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
North Carolina • Kentucky • USC
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Auburn

Player Story

Keeshawn Silver built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive tackle from Rocky Mount, NC wearing No. 9, spending time with Kentucky, North Carolina, and USC. The clearest part of Keeshawn Silver's...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.9841

Rocky Mount · Rocky Mount, NC

Committed To
North Carolina
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Keeshawn Silver, DT. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · North Carolina. Keeshawn Silver shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
65
TFL
5
Sacks
2
QB hurries
2

Quick Answers

Keeshawn Silver quick answers

Latest team and position
USC · DT
Career Tackles
65
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 35 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · North Carolina
Top game
Auburn
Recruit profile
5-star · Rocky Mount · North Carolina
High school pipeline
Rocky Mount · 7 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 9 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
19 tackles · DT 97th (top 42%) · Big Ten 258th (top 33%) · National 2,138th (top 35%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina13-0--043.3
2023 PostseasonKentucky111-0--020.1
2023 Regular SeasonKentucky111620--020.1
2024 Regular SeasonKentucky1226112-037.3
2025 PostseasonUSC11311--028.2
2025 Regular SeasonUSC111610--028.2

Related Context

Keeshawn Silver played DT for North Carolina, Kentucky, and USC. Across 5 tracked seasons, Keeshawn Silver recorded 65 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Kentucky.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

North Carolina paired 0 primary output with 12.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 9.9 efficiency.

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Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across North Carolina, Kentucky, USC.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: TCU

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 · USC

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

9.9

Usage

2.6

Consistency

6.1

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. TCU: 2. Georgia Southern: 0. Purdue: 0. Michigan State: 0. Illinois: 0. Michigan: 0. Notre Dame: 1. Nebraska: 0. Iowa: 0. Oregon: 0. UCLA: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. TCU: 3 by 32.5. Georgia Southern: 1 by 4.2. Purdue: 2 by 8.3. Michigan State: 2 by 8.3. Illinois: 2 by 8.3. Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Notre Dame: 2 by 18.3. Nebraska: 3 by 12.5. Iowa: 1 by 4.2. Oregon: 1 by 4.2. UCLA: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 7 · -0.8 vs Losses
Losses0.8 · Games = 4 · +0.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

TCU

Best efficiency game

32.5 vs TCU

Result
Wed 12/31@ TCUSplash gameL 27-3032110
Sun 11/30vs UCLAW 29-1010000
Sat 11/22@ OregonL 27-4210000
Sat 11/15vs IowaW 26-2110000
Sat 11/1@ NebraskaW 21-1731000
Sat 10/18@ Notre DameL 24-3421100
Sat 10/11vs MichiganW 31-1311000
Sat 9/27@ IllinoisL 32-3420000
Sun 9/21vs Michigan StateW 45-3121000
Sat 9/13@ PurdueW 33-1722000
Sat 9/6vs Georgia SouthernW 59-2011000

Player Story

Keeshawn Silver story

Keeshawn Silver built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive tackle from Rocky Mount, NC wearing No. 9, spending time with Kentucky, North Carolina, and USC. The clearest part of Keeshawn Silver's career was his defensive production: 65 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 35 career games in the available record. That gives Keeshawn Silver'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. 1

    North Carolina

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kentucky

    2023-2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    USC

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina0
2022 Regular SeasonNorth Carolina012.52.10
2023 PostseasonKentucky28.31.92
2023 Regular SeasonKentucky28.31.90
2024 Regular SeasonKentucky412.43.42
2025 PostseasonUSC39.92.6-1
2025 Regular SeasonUSC39.92.60

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Auburn

Week 9 · L 10-24 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

74.5 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.5 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 37 TCU

Week 1 · L 27-30 · Postseason

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Havoc Plays

73.6 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.6 takeover score.

#3

vs Florida

Week 5 · W 33-14 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

55.5 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 55.5 takeover score.

#4

vs Ball State

Week 1 · W 44-14

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Havoc Plays

51.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.4 takeover score.

#5

vs Ohio

Week 4 · W 41-6

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Havoc Plays

49.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · North Carolina

0 primary output · 12.5 efficiency · 2.1 usage

43.3

#2

2024 Regular Season · Kentucky

37.3

4 primary · 12.4 efficiency · 3.4 usage

#3

2025 Postseason · USC

28.2

3 primary · 9.9 efficiency · 2.6 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games