Player Dossier

2023-2025

Eastern Kentucky

Tommy Ziesmer

DL • 6'2" • 296 lbs • Danville, KY, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tommy Ziesmer shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

Role sample still building

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Impact Production

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Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

54

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Kentucky

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Kentucky • Eastern Kentucky
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Akron

Player Story

Tommy Ziesmer built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Danville, KY, spending time with Eastern Kentucky and Kentucky. The clearest part of Tommy Ziesmer's career was his defensive...

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Tommy Ziesmer, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Kentucky. Tommy Ziesmer shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
4
TFL
1
Sacks
1

Quick Answers

Tommy Ziesmer quick answers

Latest team and position
Eastern Kentucky · DL
Career Tackles
4
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 5 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Kentucky
Top game
Akron
High school pipeline
Boyle County · 8 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 0 · Sophomore

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonKentucky1211--072.5
2024 Regular SeasonKentucky22-0--037.4
2025 Regular SeasonEastern Kentucky20-0--058.3

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Unlisted to LouisvilleUnlisted to P481.4Jan 11, 2026
2025Kentucky to UnlistedP4 to Unlisted21.2Dec 15, 2024

Tommy Ziesmer played DL for Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky. Across 3 tracked seasons, Tommy Ziesmer recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Kentucky.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Kentucky paired 2 primary output with 28.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 16.7 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 Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Marshall

Game 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 · Eastern Kentucky

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

16.7

Usage

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Marshall

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Louisville: 0. Marshall: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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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

Marshall

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs Marshall

Result
Sat 9/13@ Marshall51000
Sat 8/30@ Louisville30000

Player Story

Tommy Ziesmer story

Tommy Ziesmer built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Danville, KY, spending time with Eastern Kentucky and Kentucky. The clearest part of Tommy Ziesmer's career was his defensive production: 4 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, and 1 sack across 5 career games in the available record. That gives Tommy Ziesmer'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

    Kentucky

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Eastern Kentucky

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonKentucky228.37.4
2024 Regular SeasonKentucky04.21-2
2025 Regular SeasonEastern Kentucky016.70

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Akron

Week 3 · W 35-3

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

63.3 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 63.3 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 86 Marshall

Week 3

0

Havoc Plays

10.4 takeover

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.4 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 25 Louisville

Week 1 · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

6.3 takeover

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.3 takeover score.

#4

vs Murray State

Week 12 · W 48-6

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Ohio

Week 4 · W 41-6

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Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Kentucky

2 primary output · 28.3 efficiency · 7.4 usage

72.5

#2

2025 Regular Season · Eastern Kentucky

58.3

0 primary · 16.7 efficiency · usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Kentucky

37.4

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games