Player Dossier

2023-2025

Baylor

D.K. Kalu

DL • 6'4" • 309 lbs • Missouri City, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

D.K. Kalu shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.8 disruption score.

Usage Score

2.7

Efficiency

7.8

Consistency

5.6

Season Value

5.2

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season · Baylor

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
3
Program Path
Baylor
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UCF

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

D.K. Kalu, DL. Best season Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season · Baylor. D.K. Kalu shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.8 disruption score.

D.K. Kalu played DL for Baylor. Across 3 tracked seasons, D.K. Kalu recorded 11 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Baylor.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Baylor paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 7.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UCF

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Baylor

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.1

Efficiency

7.8

Usage

2.7

Consistency

5.6

Best Game by takeover score

Utah

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Auburn: 0. Arizona State: 0. Kansas State: 0. Cincinnati: 0. UCF: 0.5. Utah: 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. Auburn: 1 by 4.2. Arizona State: 2 by 8.3. Kansas State: 2 by 8.3. Cincinnati: 3 by 12.5. UCF: 1 by 9.2. Utah: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0.3 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 4 · -0.3 vs Wins
First Half0 · Games = 3 · -0.2 vs Second Half
Second Half0.2 · Games = 3 · +0.2 vs First Half

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UCF

Best efficiency game

12.5 vs Cincinnati

Result
Sun 11/16vs UtahL 28-5510000
Sat 11/1vs UCFW 30-3100.5000
Sat 10/25@ CincinnatiL 20-4131000
Sat 10/4vs Kansas StateW 35-3422000
Sat 9/20vs Arizona StateL 24-2721000
Sat 8/30vs AuburnL 24-3811000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Baylor

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonBaylor0
2024 Regular SeasonBaylor04.20.80
2025 Regular SeasonBaylor0.57.82.70.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

UCF

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5

Primary metric

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 22.8 takeover score.

#2

Cincinnati

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.8 takeover score.

#3

Kansas State

0

Primary metric

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#4

Arizona State

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#5

Air Force

0

Primary metric

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 1.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2024 Regular Season · Baylor

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Baylor

5.2

0.5 primary · 7.8 efficiency · 2.7 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Baylor

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8744

Ridge Point · Missouri City, TX

Committed To
Baylor
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Career Facts

1

Career teams

3

Seasons tracked

11

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 3 tracked seasons, 7 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.