Player Dossier

2023-2025

Vanderbilt

Yilanan Ouattara

DL • 6'7" • 311 lbs • Cologne, Germany

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Yilanan Ouattara shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Vanderbilt

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Vanderbilt
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: LSU

Player Story

Yilanan Ouattara built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Cologne wearing No. 5, spending time with Vanderbilt. The clearest part of Yilanan Ouattara's career was his defensive...

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3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8656

Germany · Germany, GERM

Committed To
Vanderbilt
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Yilanan Ouattara, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Vanderbilt. Yilanan Ouattara shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
44
TFL
6.5
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
3
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Yilanan Ouattara quick answers

Latest team and position
Vanderbilt · DL
Career Tackles
44
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 19 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · Vanderbilt
Top game
LSU
Recruit profile
3-star · Germany · Vanderbilt
High school pipeline
Parker · 16 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 5 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
2 tackles · DL 973rd (top 91%) · SEC 585th (top 78%) · National 4,832nd (top 78%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonVanderbilt4111.50.512044.9
2024 PostseasonVanderbilt1331.51--047.6
2024 Regular SeasonVanderbilt13283.5122047.6
2025 Regular SeasonVanderbilt22-0--037.2

Related Context

Yilanan Ouattara played DL for Vanderbilt. Across 3 tracked seasons, Yilanan Ouattara recorded 44 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Vanderbilt.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

Vanderbilt paired 11 primary output with 18.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 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: Utah State

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.9

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Utah State

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Virginia Tech: 0. Utah State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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First Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Utah State

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Utah State

Result
Sat 9/27vs Utah StateW 55-3511000
Sat 9/6@ Virginia TechW 44-2010000

Player Story

Yilanan Ouattara story

Yilanan Ouattara built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Cologne wearing No. 5, spending time with Vanderbilt. The clearest part of Yilanan Ouattara's career was his defensive production: 44 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, and 4 passes defended across 19 career games in the available record. That gives Yilanan Ouattara's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Vanderbilt

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonVanderbilt5246.5
2024 PostseasonVanderbilt1118.47.16
2024 Regular SeasonVanderbilt1118.47.10
2025 Regular SeasonVanderbilt04.20.9-11

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ LSU

Week 13 · L 17-24 · Conference game

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

81.9 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 81.9 takeover score.

#2

vs Kentucky

Week 4 · L 28-45 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

80.6 takeover

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 80.6 takeover score.

#3

vs Georgia Tech

Week 1 · W 35-27 · Postseason

2.5

Havoc Plays

78.1 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 78.1 takeover score.

#4

vs Texas

Week 9 · L 24-27 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

61.9 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 61.9 takeover score.

#5

@ Georgia State

Week 3 · L 32-36

2

Havoc Plays

55.3 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 55.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · Vanderbilt

11 primary output · 18.4 efficiency · 7.1 usage

47.6

#2

2024 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

47.6

11 primary · 18.4 efficiency · 7.1 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Vanderbilt

44.9

5 primary · 24 efficiency · 6.5 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

7

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games