Player Dossier

2023-2025

South Alabama

Emmanuel Waller

DL • 6'3" • 267 lbs • Birmingham, AL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Emmanuel Waller shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

23%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

38

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

28

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

58

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · South Alabama

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
UAB • South Alabama
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe

Player Story

Emmanuel Waller built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Birmingham, AL wearing No. 9, spending time with South Alabama and UAB. The clearest part of Emmanuel Waller's career was...

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Emmanuel Waller, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · South Alabama. Emmanuel Waller shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
22
TFL
3.5
Sacks
2
QB hurries
5

Quick Answers

Emmanuel Waller quick answers

Latest team and position
South Alabama · DL
Career Tackles
22
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 17 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · South Alabama
Top game
UL Monroe
High school pipeline
Oak Mountain · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 9 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
14 tackles · DL 511th (top 48%) · Sun Belt 276th (top 44%) · National 2,514th (top 41%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonUAB31-02-033.3
2024 Regular SeasonUAB67111-024.6
2025 Regular SeasonSouth Alabama8142.512-049.3

Related Context

Emmanuel Waller played DL for UAB and South Alabama. Across 3 tracked seasons, Emmanuel Waller recorded 22 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with South Alabama.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

South Alabama paired 5.5 primary output with 14.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.2 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across UAB, South Alabama.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: UL Monroe

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · South Alabama

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

14.2

Usage

5

Consistency

40.9

Best Game by takeover score

UL Monroe

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Morgan State: 1. Auburn: 0. Coastal Carolina: 0. North Texas: 0. Troy: 0. Arkansas State: 1. UL Monroe: 2.5. Southern Miss: 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 on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Morgan State: 1 by 14.2. Auburn: 2 by 8.3. Coastal Carolina: 1 by 4.2. North Texas: 1 by 4.2. Troy: 2 by 8.3. Arkansas State: 3 by 22.5. UL Monroe: 2 by 33.3. Southern Miss: 2 by 18.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.5 · Games = 3 · +1.3 vs Losses
Losses0.2 · Games = 5 · -1.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

8 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UL Monroe

Best efficiency game

33.3 vs UL Monroe

Result
Sat 11/22vs Southern MissW 42-3520000
Sat 11/15@ UL MonroeSplash gameW 26-14211.5010
Tue 10/14vs Arkansas StateL 14-1531100
Sat 10/4@ TroyL 24-3121000
Sat 9/27@ North TexasL 22-3611000
Sat 9/20vs Coastal CarolinaL 20-3810000
Sat 9/13@ AuburnL 15-3120000
Sat 8/30vs Morgan StateW 38-2110000

Player Story

Emmanuel Waller story

Emmanuel Waller built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Birmingham, AL wearing No. 9, spending time with South Alabama and UAB. The clearest part of Emmanuel Waller's career was his defensive production: 22 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 17 career games in the available record. His career also includes 16 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. That gives Emmanuel Waller's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    UAB

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    South Alabama

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonUAB28.12.8
2024 Regular SeasonUAB39.92.81
2025 Regular SeasonSouth Alabama5.514.252.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 131 UL Monroe

Week 12 · W 26-14 · Conference game

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

77.8 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 77.8 takeover score.

#2

vs Alcorn State

Week 1 · W 41-3

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Havoc Plays

61.1 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 61.1 takeover score.

#3

vs South Florida

Week 6 · W 56-35 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

48.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.3 takeover score.

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@ North Texas

Week 13 · L 42-45 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

46.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 46.7 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 100 Arkansas State

Week 8 · L 14-15 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

43.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · South Alabama

5.5 primary output · 14.2 efficiency · 5 usage

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#2

2023 Regular Season · UAB

33.3

2 primary · 8.1 efficiency · 2.8 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · UAB

24.6

3 primary · 9.9 efficiency · 2.8 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games