Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Illinois
Malik Elzy
WR • 6'2" • 215 lbs • Chicago, IL, USA
Vertical playmakerExplosive finisher
Malik Elzy reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.
Impact Production
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Developing production for a receiver
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Reliability
13
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
27
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Illinois
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Illinois
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Eastern Illinois
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- Committed To
- Illinois
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
Malik Elzy, WR. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Illinois. Malik Elzy reads as a vertical playmaker based on recent role and receiving efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Receiving yards
- 213
- Receptions
- 16
- Touchdowns
- 2
Quick Answers
Malik Elzy quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Illinois · WR
- Career Receiving Yards
- 213
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 9 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Illinois
- Top game
- Eastern Illinois
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Simeon · Illinois
- High school pipeline
- Simeon · 25 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 8 · Junior
- 2025 Receiving yards rank
- 84 receiving yards · WR 677th (top 62%) · Big Ten 138th (top 49%) · National 1,088th (top 50%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Rec | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Illinois | 2 | 5 | 52 | 1 | 67.2 |
| 2024 Postseason | Illinois | 3 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 61.9 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Illinois | 3 | 3 | 66 | 1 | 61.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Illinois | 4 | 7 | 84 | 0 | 72.6 |
Related Context
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
Malik Elzy played WR for Illinois. Across 3 tracked seasons, Malik Elzy recorded 213 receiving yards, 1 tackles, and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Illinois.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Illinois paired 84 primary output with 74.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
target-driven usage with 74.2 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: Western Illinois
Win with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Illinois
Games
4
Receiving Yards / G
21
Efficiency
74.2
Usage
9.7
Consistency
83.9
Best Game by takeover score
Western Illinois
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Western Illinois: 25. Duke: 21. Western Michigan: 25. Indiana: 13
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 Illinois: 2 by 83.3. Duke: 2 by 70. Western Michigan: 1 by 100. Indiana: 2 by 43.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins23.7 · Games = 3 · +10.7 vs Losses
Losses13 · Games = 1 · -10.7 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
4 games
Featured metric
Receiving Yards
Top game by takeover score
Western Illinois
Best efficiency game
100 vs Western Michigan
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
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Illinois
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2023202420242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Illinois | 52 | 71.1 | 11.6 | — |
| 2024 Postseason | Illinois | 77 | 91.1 | 7.3 | 25 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Illinois | 77 | 91.1 | 7.3 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Illinois | 84 | 74.2 | 9.7 | 7 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Eastern Illinois
Week 1 · W 45-0
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
51
Receiving Yards
77.2 takeover
51 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
#2
vs Western Illinois
Week 1 · W 52-3
25
Receiving Yards
73.4 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
25 receiving yards with a 83.3 efficiency score.
#3
vs No. 78 Western Michigan
Week 3 · W 38-0
25
Receiving Yards
73.2 takeover
Win with an explosive receiving profile.
25 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.
#4
@ Purdue
Week 5 · L 19-44 · Conference game
24
Receiving Yards
67.6 takeover
Loss with an explosive receiving profile.
24 receiving yards with a 80 efficiency score.
#5
vs Penn State
Week 3 · L 13-30 · Conference game
28
Receiving Yards
67.4 takeover
Loss with an explosive receiving profile.
28 receiving yards with a 62.2 efficiency score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Illinois
84 primary output · 74.2 efficiency · 9.7 usage
72.6
#2
2023 Regular Season · Illinois
67.2
52 primary · 71.1 efficiency · 11.6 usage
#3
2024 Postseason · Illinois
61.9
77 primary · 91.1 efficiency · 7.3 usage
Milestones
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100+ receiving yards
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8+ catch outings
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2+ TD games
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