Player Dossier

2019-2023

TCU

Rick D'Abreu

DL • 6'2" • 280 lbs • Chester, VA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Rick D'Abreu shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16 disruption score.

Usage / Role

20%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

44

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

44

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

55

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · East Carolina

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
East Carolina • TCU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UCF

Player Story

Rick D'Abreu built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a defensive lineman from Chester, VA wearing No. 44, spending time with East Carolina and TCU. The clearest part of Rick D'Abreu's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2019 · Rating 0.7883

Thomas Dale · Chester, VA

Committed To
East Carolina
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2019

Rick D'Abreu, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · East Carolina. Rick D'Abreu shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
80
TFL
14
Sacks
6
QB hurries
9

Quick Answers

Rick D'Abreu quick answers

Latest team and position
TCU · DL
Career Tackles
80
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 33 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · East Carolina
Top game
UCF
Recruit profile
2-star · Thomas Dale · East Carolina
High school pipeline
Thomas Dale · 11 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 44 · Senior
2023 Tackles rank
11 tackles · DL 572nd (top 58%) · Big 12 280th (top 44%) · National 2,745th (top 46%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonEast Carolina610-03-020.2
2020 Regular SeasonEast Carolina6243.511-052.3
2021 Regular SeasonEast Carolina11304.53.52-048.2
2022 Regular SeasonEast Carolina4521.52-035
2023 Regular SeasonTCU611401-042.8

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2023East Carolina to TCUG5/FCS to P482.1Jan 14, 2023

Rick D'Abreu played DL for East Carolina and TCU. Across 5 tracked seasons, Rick D'Abreu recorded 80 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with East Carolina.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

East Carolina paired 5.5 primary output with 25.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 16 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2023 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across East Carolina, TCU.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Iowa State

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2023 Regular Season · TCU

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

16

Usage

8.2

Consistency

36.7

Best Game by takeover score

Iowa State

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Colorado: 1. Iowa State: 2. BYU: 0. Kansas State: 0. Texas: 2. Baylor: 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. Colorado: 3 by 22.5. Iowa State: 4 by 36.7. BYU: 1 by 4.2. Kansas State: 1 by 4.2. Texas: 1 by 24.2. Baylor: 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 = 2 · -1.3 vs Losses
Losses1.3 · Games = 4 · +1.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Iowa State

Best efficiency game

36.7 vs Iowa State

Result
Sat 11/18vs BaylorW 42-1710000
Sun 11/12vs TexasSplash gameL 26-2911100
Sat 10/21@ Kansas StateL 3-4110000
Sat 10/14vs BYUW 44-1110000
Sun 10/8@ Iowa StateSplash gameL 14-2742200
Sat 9/2vs ColoradoL 42-4531100

Player Story

Rick D'Abreu story

Rick D'Abreu built his college career from 2019 through 2023 as a defensive lineman from Chester, VA wearing No. 44, spending time with East Carolina and TCU. The clearest part of Rick D'Abreu's career was his defensive production: 80 tackles, 14 tackles for loss, and 6 sacks across 33 career games in the available record. That gives Rick D'Abreu'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

    East Carolina

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    TCU

    2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20192020202120222023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonEast Carolina3123.3
2020 Regular SeasonEast Carolina5.525.810.12.5
2021 Regular SeasonEast Carolina1020.56.94.5
2022 Regular SeasonEast Carolina5.5195.5-4.5
2023 Regular SeasonTCU5168.2-0.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs UCF

Week 8 · W 34-13 · Conference game

Win with 4.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4.5

Havoc Plays

85.8 takeover

4.5 disruption/tackle impact with 85.8 takeover score.

#2

vs Cincinnati

Week 13 · L 13-35 · Conference game

4

Havoc Plays

85.6 takeover

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 85.6 takeover score.

#3

@ Cincinnati

Week 11 · L 17-55 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

80.8 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 80.8 takeover score.

#4

@ Iowa State

Week 6 · L 14-27 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

78.9 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 78.9 takeover score.

#5

vs Texas

Week 11 · L 26-29 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

74.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · East Carolina

5.5 primary output · 25.8 efficiency · 10.1 usage

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#2

2021 Regular Season · East Carolina

48.2

10 primary · 20.5 efficiency · 6.9 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · TCU

42.8

5 primary · 16 efficiency · 8.2 usage

Milestones

7

Impact games

8

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games