Player Dossier

2020-2022

Indiana

Lem Watley-Neely

DB • 6'0" • 180 lbs • Harper Woods, MI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Lem Watley-Neely shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

16

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

9

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

32

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Indiana

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Indiana
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Ohio State
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2026 · Rating 0.9036

Lincoln · San Diego, CA

Committed To
Oregon
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2026

Lem Watley-Neely, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Regular Season · Indiana. Lem Watley-Neely shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
9
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Lem Watley-Neely quick answers

Latest team and position
Indiana · DB
Career Tackles
9
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 6 games
Best season
2022 Regular Season · Indiana
Top game
Ohio State
Recruit profile
4-star · Lincoln · Oregon
High school pipeline
Lincoln · 28 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 21 · Junior
2022 Tackles rank
9 tackles · DB 579th (top 63%) · Big Ten 311th (top 50%) · National 2,854th (top 49%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonIndiana00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonIndiana00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonIndiana69-0-1030.4

Related Context

Lem Watley-Neely played DB for Indiana. Across 3 tracked seasons, Lem Watley-Neely recorded 9 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Indiana.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Indiana paired 1 primary output with 7.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 7.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2022 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Ohio State

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2022 Regular Season · Indiana

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

7.9

Usage

1

Consistency

5.6

Best Game by takeover score

Ohio State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Kentucky: 0. Cincinnati: 0. Maryland: 0. Penn State: 0. Ohio State: 1. Michigan State: 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. Western Kentucky: 1 by 4.2. Cincinnati: 1 by 4.2. Maryland: 1 by 4.2. Penn State: 2 by 8.3. Ohio State: 3 by 22.5. Michigan State: 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 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · +0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Ohio State

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs Ohio State

Result
Sat 11/19@ Michigan StateW 39-3111000
Sat 11/12@ Ohio StateL 14-5632001
Sat 11/5vs Penn StateL 14-4521000
Sat 10/15vs MarylandL 33-3811000
Sat 9/24@ CincinnatiL 24-4511000
Sat 9/17vs Western KentuckyW 33-3011000

Career Arc

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    Indiana

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonIndiana0
2021 Regular SeasonIndiana00
2022 Regular SeasonIndiana17.911

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Ohio State

Week 11 · L 14-56 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

46.7 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 46.7 takeover score.

#2

vs Penn State

Week 10 · L 14-45 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

5.8 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.8 takeover score.

#3

vs Maryland

Week 7 · L 33-38 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#4

@ Cincinnati

Week 4 · L 24-45

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#5

vs Western Kentucky

Week 3 · W 33-30

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2022 Regular Season · Indiana

1 primary output · 7.9 efficiency · 1 usage

30.4

#2

2020 Regular Season · Indiana

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · Indiana

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games