Player Dossier

2022-2025

Buffalo

Cornell Evans

DT • 6'1" • 290 lbs • Baltimore, MD, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Cornell Evans shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

16%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

34

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

18

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

60

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Buffalo

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Buffalo
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green

Player Story

Cornell Evans built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive tackle from Baltimore, MD wearing No. 99, spending time with Buffalo. The clearest part of Cornell Evans' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8011

St. Frances Academy · Baltimore, MD

Committed To
Buffalo
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Cornell Evans, DT. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Buffalo. Cornell Evans shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
30
TFL
2
Sacks
1.5
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
3

Quick Answers

Cornell Evans quick answers

Latest team and position
Buffalo · DT
Career Tackles
30
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 17 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Buffalo
Top game
Bowling Green
Recruit profile
3-star · St. Frances Academy · Buffalo
High school pipeline
St. Frances Academy · 58 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 99 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
14 tackles · DT 122nd (top 53%) · Mid-American 231st (top 40%) · National 2,501st (top 41%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonBuffalo00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonBuffalo12-0--041.7
2024 PostseasonBuffalo80-0--032
2024 Regular SeasonBuffalo8140.50.512032
2025 Regular SeasonBuffalo8141.5111037

Related Context

Cornell Evans played DT for Buffalo. Across 4 tracked seasons, Cornell Evans recorded 30 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Buffalo.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Buffalo paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.9 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: Bowling Green

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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2025 Regular Season · Buffalo

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

12.9

Usage

2.7

Consistency

12.5

Best Game by takeover score

Bowling Green

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Minnesota: 0. Kent State: 1. UConn: 0. Eastern Michigan: 0. Akron: 0. Bowling Green: 3. Miami (OH): 0.5. Ohio: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Minnesota: 1 by 4.2. Kent State: 1 by 14.2. UConn: 1 by 4.2. Eastern Michigan: 2 by 8.3. Akron: 1 by 4.2. Bowling Green: 2 by 38.3. Miami (OH): 4 by 21.7. Ohio: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.3 · Games = 3 · +1.2 vs Losses
Losses0.1 · Games = 5 · -1.2 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

Bowling Green

Best efficiency game

38.3 vs Bowling Green

Result
Fri 11/28vs OhioL 26-3120000
Thu 11/20vs Miami (OH)L 20-37400.5000
Sat 11/1@ Bowling GreenSplash gameW 28-321111
Sat 10/25vs AkronL 16-2411000
Sat 10/4vs Eastern MichiganW 31-3021000
Sat 9/27vs UConnL 17-2010000
Sat 9/13@ Kent StateW 31-2810000
Fri 8/29@ MinnesotaL 10-2310000

Player Story

Cornell Evans story

Cornell Evans built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive tackle from Baltimore, MD wearing No. 99, spending time with Buffalo. The clearest part of Cornell Evans' career was his defensive production: 30 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, and 3 passes defended across 17 career games in the available record. That gives Cornell Evans' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

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    Buffalo

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20222023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonBuffalo0
2023 Regular SeasonBuffalo08.320
2024 PostseasonBuffalo412.31.74
2024 Regular SeasonBuffalo412.31.70
2025 Regular SeasonBuffalo4.512.92.70.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 113 Bowling Green

Week 10 · W 28-3 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

66.9 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 66.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Kent State

Week 14 · W 43-7 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

57 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 57 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 82 Miami (OH)

Week 13 · L 20-37 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

30.9 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 30.9 takeover score.

#4

@ Eastern Michigan

Week 13 · W 37-20 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

26.1 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 26.1 takeover score.

#5

vs Ball State

Week 12 · W 51-48 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

25.8 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 25.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Buffalo

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 2 usage

41.7

#2

2025 Regular Season · Buffalo

37

4.5 primary · 12.9 efficiency · 2.7 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · Buffalo

32

4 primary · 12.3 efficiency · 1.7 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games