Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025North Carolina
Kaleb Cost
DB • 5'11" • 195 lbs • Atlanta, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Kaleb Cost shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
57
Solid production for a defensive back
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Reliability
63
Reliable weekly contributor
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Star Power
67
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · North Carolina
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- North Carolina
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: North Carolina Central
Player Story
Kaleb Cost built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Atlanta, GA wearing No. 21, spending time with North Carolina. The clearest part of Kaleb Cost's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- North Carolina
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
Kaleb Cost, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · North Carolina. Kaleb Cost shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 24.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 111
- TFL
- 4.5
- Sacks
- 0.5
- Passes defended
- 11
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Kaleb Cost quick answers
- Latest team and position
- North Carolina · DB
- Career Tackles
- 111
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 24 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · North Carolina
- Top game
- North Carolina Central
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Sandy Creek · North Carolina
- High school pipeline
- Sandy Creek · 52 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 21 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 45 tackles · DB 176th (top 19%) · ACC 90th (top 12%) · National 746th (top 13%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Postseason | North Carolina | 1 | 5 | - | 0 | - | 2 | 0 | 50.1 |
| 2024 Postseason | North Carolina | 12 | 7 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 47.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | North Carolina | 12 | 54 | 2.5 | 0.5 | - | 4 | 2 | 47.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | North Carolina | 11 | 45 | 2 | 0 | - | 5 | 0 | 56.1 |
Related Context
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Kaleb Cost played DB for North Carolina. Across 3 tracked seasons, Kaleb Cost recorded 11 receiving yards, 111 tackles, and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with North Carolina.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
North Carolina paired 8 primary output with 24.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 24.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Syracuse
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 Regular Season · North Carolina
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
0.7
Efficiency
24.3
Usage
6.2
Consistency
59.6
Best Game by takeover score
Syracuse
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. TCU: 1. Charlotte: 0. Richmond: 0. UCF: 1. Clemson: 1. California: 0. Virginia: 1. Syracuse: 2. Stanford: 0. Duke: 1. NC State: 1
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 versus efficiency scatter chart. TCU: 6 by 35. Charlotte: 5 by 20.8. Richmond: 2 by 8.3. UCF: 7 by 39.2. Clemson: 4 by 26.7. California: 5 by 20.8. Virginia: 2 by 18.3. Syracuse: 5 by 40.8. Stanford: 3 by 12.5. Duke: 3 by 22.5. NC State: 3 by 22.5
Split Comparison
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Wins0.5 · Games = 4 · -0.4 vs Losses
Losses0.9 · Games = 7 · +0.4 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
Syracuse
Best efficiency game
40.8 vs Syracuse
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 11/30 | @ NC State | L 19-42 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | vs Duke | L 25-32 | 3 | 3 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | vs Stanford | W 20-15 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 10/31 | @ SyracuseSplash game | W 27-10 | 5 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Virginia | L 16-17 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | @ California | L 18-21 | 5 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | vs Clemson | L 10-38 | 4 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | @ UCF | L 9-34 | 7 | 7 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Richmond | W 41-6 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Charlotte | W 20-3 | 5 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Tue 9/2 | vs TCU | L 14-48 | 6 | 5 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Kaleb Cost story
Kaleb Cost built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Atlanta, GA wearing No. 21, spending time with North Carolina. The clearest part of Kaleb Cost's career was his defensive production: 111 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, 0.5 sacks, and 3 interceptions across 24 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with North Carolina. 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 Kaleb Cost's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 11 receiving yards and 4 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 24 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across North Carolina.
The arc is straightforward: Kaleb Cost 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
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North Carolina
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2023202420242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Postseason | North Carolina | 2 | 40.8 | 4.5 | — |
| 2024 Postseason | North Carolina | 9 | 28.7 | 5.9 | 7 |
| 2024 Regular Season | North Carolina | 9 | 28.7 | 5.9 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | North Carolina | 8 | 24.3 | 6.2 | -1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs North Carolina Central
Week 3 · W 45-10
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
4
Havoc Plays
91.1 takeover
4 disruption/tackle impact with 91.1 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 115 Syracuse
Week 10 · W 27-10 · Conference game
2
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
@ No. 76 UCF
Week 4 · L 9-34
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Havoc Plays
63.1 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 63.1 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 37 TCU
Week 1 · L 14-48
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Havoc Plays
61.7 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 61.7 takeover score.
#5
@ West Virginia
Week 1 · L 10-30 · Postseason
2
Havoc Plays
59.4 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 59.4 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · North Carolina
8 primary output · 24.3 efficiency · 6.2 usage
56.1
#2
2023 Postseason · North Carolina
50.1
2 primary · 40.8 efficiency · 4.5 usage
#3
2024 Postseason · North Carolina
47.9
9 primary · 28.7 efficiency · 5.9 usage
Milestones
4
Impact games
4
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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