Player Dossier

2022-2025

Pittsburgh

Jimmy Scott

DL • 6'3" • 260 lbs • Cheektowaga, NY, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jimmy Scott shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

45%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

81

High-end production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

49

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

83

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Pittsburgh

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Pittsburgh
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: California

Player Story

Jimmy Scott built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Cheektowaga, NY wearing No. 44, spending time with Pittsburgh. The clearest part of Jimmy Scott's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8859

St. Francis · Hamburg, NY

Committed To
Pittsburgh
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Jimmy Scott, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Pittsburgh. Jimmy Scott shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
55
TFL
21
Sacks
10
QB hurries
14
Passes defended
3

Quick Answers

Jimmy Scott quick answers

Latest team and position
Pittsburgh · DL
Career Tackles
55
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 31 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · Pittsburgh
Top game
California
Recruit profile
3-star · St. Francis · Pittsburgh
High school pipeline
St. Francis · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 44 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
17 tackles · DL 431st (top 40%) · ACC 298th (top 38%) · National 2,278th (top 37%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonPittsburgh7810--010.2
2024 PostseasonPittsburgh13210--063.7
2024 Regular SeasonPittsburgh132811.5662063.7
2025 Regular SeasonPittsburgh11177.5481049.1

Related Context

Jimmy Scott played DL for Pittsburgh. Across 4 tracked seasons, Jimmy Scott recorded 55 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Pittsburgh.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

Pittsburgh paired 26.5 primary output with 28.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 24.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Stanford

Win with backfield disruption leading the way. 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 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

1.9

Efficiency

24.6

Usage

7.3

Consistency

33.5

Best Game by takeover score

Stanford

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Duquesne: 0.5. Central Michigan: 4.5. West Virginia: 1. Louisville: 1. Boston College: 1. Florida State: 3. Syracuse: 1. NC State: 2. Stanford: 5.5. Notre Dame: 1. Georgia Tech: 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. Duquesne: 1 by 9.2. Central Michigan: 4 by 61.7. West Virginia: 3 by 22.5. Louisville: 0 by 10. Boston College: 0 by 10. Florida State: 1 by 34.2. Syracuse: 1 by 14.2. NC State: 0 by 20. Stanford: 4 by 66.7. Notre Dame: 2 by 18.3. Georgia Tech: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins2.2 · Games = 8 · +1.2 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 3 · -1.2 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

Stanford

Best efficiency game

66.7 vs Stanford

Result
Sun 11/23@ Georgia TechW 42-2811000
Sat 11/15vs Notre DameL 15-37210.500.500
Sat 11/1@ Stanford2+ sacks · Splash gameW 35-20422.5020
Sat 10/25vs NC StateSplash gameW 53-3400000
Sat 10/18@ SyracuseW 30-1311100
Sat 10/11@ Florida StateSplash gameW 34-3111110
Sat 10/4vs Boston CollegeW 48-700000
Sat 9/27vs LouisvilleL 27-3400000
Sat 9/13@ West VirginiaL 24-3131100
Sat 9/6vs Central MichiganSplash gameW 45-174110.501
Sat 8/30vs DuquesneW 61-9100.5000

Player Story

Jimmy Scott story

Jimmy Scott built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Cheektowaga, NY wearing No. 44, spending time with Pittsburgh. The clearest part of Jimmy Scott's career was his defensive production: 55 tackles, 21 tackles for loss, 10 sacks, and 3 passes defended across 31 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Pittsburgh. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Jimmy Scott's production has multiple signals. With 31 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Pittsburgh.

The arc is straightforward: Jimmy Scott moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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

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    Pittsburgh

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20222023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonPittsburgh0
2023 Regular SeasonPittsburgh16.23.11
2024 PostseasonPittsburgh26.528.87.525.5
2024 Regular SeasonPittsburgh26.528.87.50
2025 Regular SeasonPittsburgh20.524.67.3-6

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs California

Week 7 · W 17-15 · Conference game

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

6.5

Havoc Plays

91.7 takeover

6.5 disruption/tackle impact with 91.7 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 112 Stanford

Week 10 · W 35-20 · Conference game

5.5

Havoc Plays

88.9 takeover

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

5.5 disruption/tackle impact with 88.9 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 100 Central Michigan

Week 2 · W 45-17

4.5

Havoc Plays

73.9 takeover

Win with 4.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4.5 disruption/tackle impact with 73.9 takeover score.

#4

@ Syracuse

Week 11 · L 13-28 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

72.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 72.8 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 41 Florida State

Week 7 · W 34-31 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

62.9 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 62.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · Pittsburgh

26.5 primary output · 28.8 efficiency · 7.5 usage

63.7

#2

2024 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

63.7

26.5 primary · 28.8 efficiency · 7.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

49.1

20.5 primary · 24.6 efficiency · 7.3 usage

Milestones

5

Impact games

12

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games