Player Dossier

2021-2025

East Carolina

Ryheem Craig

LB • 6'3" • 231 lbs • Taylorsville, NC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ryheem Craig shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.1 disruption score.

Usage Score

4.4

Efficiency

20.1

Consistency

13.9

Season Value

13.8

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · Louisville

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
7
Program Path
Louisville • East Carolina
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Liberty

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Ryheem Craig, LB. Best season Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · Louisville. Ryheem Craig shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.1 disruption score.

Ryheem Craig played LB for Louisville and East Carolina. Across 5 tracked seasons, Ryheem Craig recorded 98 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with East Carolina.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Louisville paired 0 primary output with 6.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 20.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

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

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

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

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Tulsa

Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · East Carolina

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

20.1

Usage

4.4

Consistency

13.9

Best Game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

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Active game

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Pittsburgh: 0.5. NC State: 1.5. Unknown: 1. Coastal Carolina: 0. BYU: 0. Army: 0. Tulane: 1. Tulsa: 3.5. Charlotte: 0. Memphis: 0. UTSA: 0. Florida Atlantic: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Pittsburgh: 5 by 25.8. NC State: 5 by 35.8. Unknown: 2 by 18.3. Coastal Carolina: 3 by 12.5. BYU: 4 by 16.7. Army: 7 by 29.2. Tulane: 2 by 18.3. Tulsa: 2 by 43.3. Charlotte: 4 by 16.7. Memphis: 3 by 12.5. UTSA: 1 by 4.2. Florida Atlantic: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.6 · Games = 7 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 4 · +0.1 vs Wins
First Half0.5 · Games = 6 · -0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0.8 · Games = 6 · +0.3 vs First Half

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Tulsa

Best efficiency game

43.3 vs Tulsa

Result
Sat 12/27vs PittsburghW 23-17520.5000
Sat 11/29@ Florida AtlanticW 42-322000
Sat 11/22@ UTSAL 24-5810000
Sat 11/15vs MemphisW 31-2732000
Sat 11/8vs CharlotteW 48-2242000
Thu 10/16vs TulsaW 41-272010.502
Thu 10/9@ TulaneL 19-2621100
Thu 9/25vs ArmyW 28-673000
Sat 9/20vs BYUL 13-3440000
Sat 9/13@ Coastal CarolinaW 38-033000
Sat 9/6vs Unknown200.500.500
Thu 8/28@ NC StateL 17-24520.5001

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Louisville

    2021-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    East Carolina

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonLouisville224.212
2022 Regular SeasonLouisville06.91.2-2
2023 Regular SeasonLouisville04.20.90
2024 PostseasonEast Carolina823.76.48
2024 Regular SeasonEast Carolina823.76.40
2025 PostseasonEast Carolina7.520.14.4-0.5
2025 Regular SeasonEast Carolina7.520.14.40

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Liberty

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 53 takeover score.

#2

Tulsa

3.5

Primary metric

Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 49.9 takeover score.

#3

Charlotte

2

Primary metric

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 49.7 takeover score.

#4

Boston College

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 45.4 takeover score.

#5

Unknown

1.5

Primary metric

Game with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 39.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2022 Regular Season · Louisville

0 primary output · 6.9 efficiency · 1.2 usage

36

#2

2021 Regular Season · Louisville

35.2

2 primary · 24.2 efficiency · 12 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Louisville

35

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8396

Alexander Central · Taylorsville, NC

Committed To
Louisville
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Career Facts

2

Career teams

7

Seasons tracked

98

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 7 tracked seasons, 31 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.