Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2020-2025East Carolina
Xavier McIver
DL • 6'3" • 320 lbs • Cheraw, SC, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Xavier McIver shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 50 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
87
Elite ceiling indicators
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · East Carolina
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- East Carolina
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: NC State
Player Story
Xavier McIver built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Cheraw, SC wearing No. 52, spending time with East Carolina. The clearest part of Xavier McIver's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- East Carolina
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2020
Xavier McIver, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · East Carolina. Xavier McIver shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 50 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 26
- TFL
- 2.5
- Sacks
- 1
- QB hurries
- 2
Quick Answers
Xavier McIver quick answers
- Latest team and position
- East Carolina · DL
- Career Tackles
- 26
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 15 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · East Carolina
- Top game
- NC State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Cheraw · East Carolina
- High school pipeline
- Central Catholic · 42 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 52 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 6 tackles · DL 762nd (top 71%) · American Athletic 377th (top 59%) · National 3,542nd (top 58%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | East Carolina | 4 | 4 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 13.1 |
| 2021 Regular Season | East Carolina | 5 | 13 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 28.1 |
| 2022 Regular Season | East Carolina | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.1 |
| 2023 Regular Season | East Carolina | 3 | 2 | - | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 19.2 |
| 2025 Regular Season | East Carolina | 1 | 6 | 1.5 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 87.5 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | East Carolina to Southern Miss | G5/FCS to G5/FCS | 21.2 | Jan 17, 2026 |
| 2025 | Unlisted to East Carolina | Unlisted to G5/FCS | 78.6 | Jan 5, 2025 |
| 2024 | East Carolina to Unlisted | G5/FCS to Unlisted | 21.2 | Dec 4, 2023 |
Xavier McIver played DL for East Carolina. Across 5 tracked seasons, Xavier McIver recorded 26 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with East Carolina.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
East Carolina paired 2.5 primary output with 50 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 50 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: NC State
Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · East Carolina
Games
1
Havoc Plays / G
2.5
Efficiency
50
Usage
12.6
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
NC State
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All Games2.5 · Games = 1
Game Log
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1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
NC State
Best efficiency game
50 vs NC State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 8/28 | @ NC StateSplash game | L 17-24 | 6 | 3 | — | 1.50 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Xavier McIver story
Xavier McIver built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Cheraw, SC wearing No. 52, spending time with East Carolina. The clearest part of Xavier McIver's career was his defensive production: 26 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 15 career games in the available record. That gives Xavier McIver's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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East Carolina
2020-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20202021202220232025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | East Carolina | 0.5 | 5.5 | 2.3 | — |
| 2021 Regular Season | East Carolina | 1.5 | 13.8 | 3 | 1 |
| 2022 Regular Season | East Carolina | 0 | 4.2 | 0.5 | -1.5 |
| 2023 Regular Season | East Carolina | 1 | 6.1 | 2.4 | 1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | East Carolina | 2.5 | 50 | 12.6 | 1.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 55 NC State
Week 1 · L 17-24
Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2.5
Havoc Plays
83.3 takeover
2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 83.3 takeover score.
#2
vs Tulane
Week 10 · L 10-13 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
52.2 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.2 takeover score.
#3
vs Charleston Southern
Week 4 · W 31-28
1
Havoc Plays
46.4 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 46.4 takeover score.
#4
@ Georgia State
Week 5 · L 29-49
0.5
Havoc Plays
39.2 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 39.2 takeover score.
#5
vs Cincinnati
Week 13 · L 13-35 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
34.2 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 34.2 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · East Carolina
2.5 primary output · 50 efficiency · 12.6 usage
87.5
#2
2022 Regular Season · East Carolina
36.1
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.5 usage
#3
2021 Regular Season · East Carolina
28.1
1.5 primary · 13.8 efficiency · 3 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
1
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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