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Player Dossier
2022-2025Illinois
Malachi Hood
LB • 6'2" • 225 lbs • Plainfield, IL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Malachi Hood shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.8 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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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 · Illinois
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Illinois
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern
Player Story
Malachi Hood built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Plainfield, IL wearing No. 45, spending time with Illinois. The clearest part of Malachi Hood's career was his defensive production:...
Read the storyMalachi Hood, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Illinois. Malachi Hood shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.8 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 58
- TFL
- 3.5
- Sacks
- 3
- Passes defended
- 2
Quick Answers
Malachi Hood quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Illinois · LB
- Career Tackles
- 58
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 21 games
- Best season
- 2024 Postseason · Illinois
- Top game
- Northwestern
- High school pipeline
- De La Salle · 45 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 45 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 44 tackles · LB 335th (top 27%) · Big Ten 97th (top 13%) · National 794th (top 13%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Illinois | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Illinois | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Postseason | Illinois | 8 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.8 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Illinois | 8 | 13 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 0 | 36.8 |
| 2025 Postseason | Illinois | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 31.3 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Illinois | 13 | 39 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 31.3 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Illinois to West Virginia | P4 to P4 | 79.1 | Jan 7, 2026 |
Malachi Hood played LB for Illinois. Across 4 tracked seasons, Malachi Hood recorded 58 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Illinois.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason
Illinois paired 5 primary output with 13.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 16.8 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: Tennessee
Win 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 · Illinois
Games
13
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
16.8
Usage
3.7
Consistency
7.7
Best Game by takeover score
Tennessee
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Tennessee: 2. Western Illinois: 0. Duke: 0. Western Michigan: 0. Indiana: 0. USC: 0. Purdue: 1. Ohio State: 0. Washington: 0. Rutgers: 0. Maryland: 0. Wisconsin: 0. Northwestern: 0.5
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Tennessee: 5 by 40.8. Western Illinois: 4 by 16.7. Duke: 4 by 16.7. Western Michigan: 6 by 25. Indiana: 3 by 12.5. USC: 1 by 4.2. Purdue: 1 by 14.2. Ohio State: 5 by 20.8. Washington: 3 by 12.5. Rutgers: 3 by 12.5. Maryland: 2 by 8.3. Wisconsin: 1 by 4.2. Northwestern: 6 by 30
Split Comparison
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Wins0.4 · Games = 9 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 4 · -0.4 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
13 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Tennessee
Best efficiency game
40.8 vs Tennessee
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 12/30 | vs TennesseeSplash game | W 30-28 | 5 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/30 | vs Northwestern | W 20-13 | 6 | 2 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/23 | @ Wisconsin | L 10-27 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | vs Maryland | W 24-6 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | vs Rutgers | W 35-13 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | @ Washington | L 25-42 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | vs Ohio State | L 16-34 | 5 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ Purdue | W 43-27 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | vs USC | W 34-32 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Indiana | L 10-63 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Western Michigan | W 38-0 | 6 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Duke | W 45-19 | 4 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 8/29 | vs Western Illinois | W 52-3 | 4 | 4 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Malachi Hood story
Malachi Hood built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Plainfield, IL wearing No. 45, spending time with Illinois. The clearest part of Malachi Hood's career was his defensive production: 58 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, and 2 passes defended across 21 career games in the available record. That gives Malachi Hood's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Illinois
2022-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Illinois | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Illinois | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2024 Postseason | Illinois | 5 | 13.6 | 3.1 | 5 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Illinois | 5 | 13.6 | 3.1 | 0 |
| 2025 Postseason | Illinois | 3.5 | 16.8 | 3.7 | -1.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Illinois | 3.5 | 16.8 | 3.7 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Northwestern
Week 14 · W 38-28 · Conference game
Win with backfield disruption leading the way.
4
Havoc Plays
84.2 takeover
4 disruption/tackle impact with 84.2 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 19 Tennessee
Week 1 · W 30-28 · Postseason · Ranked opponent
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Havoc Plays
80.3 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 80.3 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 51 Northwestern
Week 14 · W 20-13 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
38.6 takeover
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 38.6 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 90 Purdue
Week 6 · W 43-27 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
23.9 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 23.9 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 78 Western Michigan
Week 3 · W 38-0
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Havoc Plays
21.7 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 21.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Postseason · Illinois
5 primary output · 13.6 efficiency · 3.1 usage
36.8
#2
2024 Regular Season · Illinois
36.8
5 primary · 13.6 efficiency · 3.1 usage
#3
2025 Postseason · Illinois
31.3
3.5 primary · 16.8 efficiency · 3.7 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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