Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Mississippi State
Kalvin Dinkins
DL • 6'2" • 320 lbs • Lake, MS, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Kalvin Dinkins shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
14
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
19
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Mississippi State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Texas A&M
Player Story
Kalvin Dinkins built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Lake, MS wearing No. 35, spending time with Mississippi State. The clearest part of Kalvin Dinkins' career was his defensive...
Read the storyKalvin Dinkins, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State. Kalvin Dinkins shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 32
- TFL
- 4
- Sacks
- 3
Quick Answers
Kalvin Dinkins quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Mississippi State · DL
- Career Tackles
- 32
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 12 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State
- Top game
- Texas A&M
- High school pipeline
- Melbourne Central Catholic · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 35 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 27 tackles · DL 225th (top 21%) · SEC 193rd (top 26%) · National 1,589th (top 26%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 1 | 3 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 43.3 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 63.3 |
| 2025 Postseason | Mississippi State | 10 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 45.1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 10 | 25 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 0 | 45.1 |
Related Context
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Kalvin Dinkins played DL for Mississippi State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Kalvin Dinkins recorded 32 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Mississippi State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Mississippi State paired 2 primary output with 28.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 16.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Texas A&M
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Postseason · Mississippi State
Games
10
Havoc Plays / G
0.5
Efficiency
16.3
Usage
6.5
Consistency
10
Best Game by takeover score
Texas A&M
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Wake Forest: 0. Southern Miss: 0. Arizona State: 1. Tennessee: 0. Texas A&M: 2. Texas: 0. Arkansas: 0. Georgia: 0. Missouri: 2. Ole Miss: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Wake Forest: 2 by 8.3. Southern Miss: 2 by 8.3. Arizona State: 6 by 35. Tennessee: 4 by 16.7. Texas A&M: 2 by 28.3. Texas: 2 by 8.3. Arkansas: 1 by 4.2. Georgia: 1 by 4.2. Missouri: 1 by 24.2. Ole Miss: 6 by 25
Split Comparison
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Wins0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 7 · +0.2 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Texas A&M
Best efficiency game
35 vs Arizona State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 1/3 | vs Wake Forest | L 29-43 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 11/28 | vs Ole Miss | L 19-38 | 6 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/16 | @ MissouriSplash game | L 27-49 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | vs Georgia | L 21-41 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | @ Arkansas | W 38-35 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Texas | L 38-45 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ Texas A&MSplash game | L 9-31 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | vs Tennessee | L 34-41 | 4 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | vs Arizona State | W 24-20 | 6 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | @ Southern Miss | W 34-17 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Kalvin Dinkins story
Kalvin Dinkins built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Lake, MS wearing No. 35, spending time with Mississippi State. The clearest part of Kalvin Dinkins' career was his defensive production: 32 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, and 3 sacks across 12 career games in the available record. That gives Kalvin Dinkins' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Mississippi State
2022-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20222023202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 0 | 12.5 | 2.1 | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 2 | 28.3 | 10.2 | 2 |
| 2025 Postseason | Mississippi State | 5 | 16.3 | 6.5 | 3 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Mississippi State | 5 | 16.3 | 6.5 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 9 Texas A&M
Week 6 · L 9-31 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
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Havoc Plays
76.1 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 21 Missouri
Week 12 · L 27-49 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
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.
#3
vs Eastern Kentucky
Week 1 · W 56-7
2
Havoc Plays
71.1 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.1 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 60 Arizona State
Week 2 · W 24-20
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Havoc Plays
48.9 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.9 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 7 Ole Miss
Week 14 · L 19-38 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
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Havoc Plays
18.1 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 18.1 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State
2 primary output · 28.3 efficiency · 10.2 usage
63.3
#2
2025 Postseason · Mississippi State
45.1
5 primary · 16.3 efficiency · 6.5 usage
#3
2025 Regular Season · Mississippi State
45.1
5 primary · 16.3 efficiency · 6.5 usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
3
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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