Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025South Carolina
Desmond Umeozulu
LB • 6'6" • 255 lbs • Upper Marlboro, MD, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Desmond Umeozulu shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.5 disruption score.
Impact Production
39
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
19
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
62
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · South Carolina
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- South Carolina
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma
Player Story
Desmond Umeozulu built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Upper Marlboro, MD wearing No. 9, spending time with South Carolina. The clearest part of Desmond Umeozulu's career was his...
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- Committed To
- South Carolina
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
Desmond Umeozulu, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · South Carolina. Desmond Umeozulu shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.5 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 29
- TFL
- 2
- Sacks
- 1
- QB hurries
- 5
Quick Answers
Desmond Umeozulu quick answers
- Latest team and position
- South Carolina · LB
- Career Tackles
- 29
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 17 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · South Carolina
- Top game
- Oklahoma
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Charles Herbert Flowers · South Carolina
- High school pipeline
- Charles Herbert Flowers · 16 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 9 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 19 tackles · LB 586th (top 46%) · SEC 250th (top 33%) · National 2,109th (top 34%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | South Carolina | 7 | 9 | - | 0 | 2 | - | 0 | 16.8 |
| 2024 Regular Season | South Carolina | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.8 |
| 2025 Regular Season | South Carolina | 9 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 0 | 42.1 |
Related Context
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Desmond Umeozulu played LB for South Carolina. Across 3 tracked seasons, Desmond Umeozulu recorded 29 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with South Carolina.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
South Carolina paired 6 primary output with 15.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 15.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma
Loss 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 · South Carolina
Games
9
Havoc Plays / G
0.7
Efficiency
15.5
Usage
4.6
Consistency
14.8
Best Game by takeover score
Oklahoma
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. South Carolina State: 2. Missouri: 0. Kentucky: 1. LSU: 0. Oklahoma: 2. Ole Miss: 0. Texas A&M: 0. Coastal Carolina: 0. Clemson: 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. South Carolina State: 4 by 36.7. Missouri: 2 by 8.3. Kentucky: 0 by 10. LSU: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma: 3 by 32.5. Ole Miss: 3 by 12.5. Texas A&M: 1 by 4.2. Coastal Carolina: 3 by 12.5. Clemson: 1 by 14.2
Split Comparison
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Wins1 · Games = 3 · +0.5 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 6 · -0.5 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
9 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Oklahoma
Best efficiency game
36.7 vs South Carolina State
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/29 | vs Clemson | L 14-28 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | vs Coastal Carolina | W 51-7 | 3 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | @ Texas A&M | L 30-31 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | @ Ole Miss | L 14-30 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | vs OklahomaSplash game | L 7-26 | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ LSU | L 10-20 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | vs Kentucky | W 35-13 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Missouri | L 20-29 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | vs South Carolina StateSplash game | W 38-10 | 4 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Desmond Umeozulu story
Desmond Umeozulu built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Upper Marlboro, MD wearing No. 9, spending time with South Carolina. The clearest part of Desmond Umeozulu's career was his defensive production: 29 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 17 career games in the available record. That gives Desmond Umeozulu's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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South Carolina
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | South Carolina | 2 | 8.2 | 1.9 | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | South Carolina | 0 | 4.2 | 1.1 | -2 |
| 2025 Regular Season | South Carolina | 6 | 15.5 | 4.6 | 6 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 14 Oklahoma
Week 8 · L 7-26 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
77.5 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.5 takeover score.
#2
vs South Carolina State
Week 2 · W 38-10
2
Havoc Plays
73.9 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.9 takeover score.
#3
vs Jacksonville State
Week 10 · W 38-28
1
Havoc Plays
50.6 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 50.6 takeover score.
#4
vs Florida
Week 7 · L 39-41 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
47 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 47 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 34 Clemson
Week 14 · L 14-28
1
Havoc Plays
35.8 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 35.8 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · South Carolina
6 primary output · 15.5 efficiency · 4.6 usage
42.1
#2
2024 Regular Season · South Carolina
37.8
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1.1 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · South Carolina
16.8
2 primary · 8.2 efficiency · 1.9 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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