Player Dossier

2023-2025

Virginia

Emmanuel Karnley

CB • 6'3" • 184 lbs • Antioch, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Emmanuel Karnley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

91%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a corner

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

82

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Virginia

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Arizona • Virginia
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Missouri

Player Story

Emmanuel Karnley built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a cornerback from Antioch, CA wearing No. 19, spending time with Arizona and Virginia. The clearest part of Emmanuel Karnley's career was his...

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Emmanuel Karnley, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Virginia. Emmanuel Karnley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
40
TFL
2
Passes defended
13

Quick Answers

Emmanuel Karnley quick answers

Latest team and position
Virginia · CB
Career Tackles
40
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 18 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Virginia
Top game
Missouri
High school pipeline
Las Lomas · 8 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 19 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
26 tackles · CB 142nd (top 30%) · ACC 223rd (top 29%) · National 1,639th (top 27%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonArizona00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonArizona714-0-5031.8
2025 PostseasonVirginia113-0-1050.2
2025 Regular SeasonVirginia112320-7050.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Virginia to WashingtonP4 to P482.8Jan 8, 2026
2025Miami to VirginiaP4 to P487.9Apr 21, 2025

Emmanuel Karnley played CB for Arizona and Virginia. Across 3 tracked seasons, Emmanuel Karnley recorded 40 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Virginia.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Virginia paired 11 primary output with 19.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 19.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to 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 Arizona, Virginia.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Missouri

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 90.9th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Postseason · Virginia

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

19.8

Usage

3

Consistency

56.1

Best Game by takeover score

Missouri

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Missouri: 2. Coastal Carolina: 0. William & Mary: 1. Stanford: 0. Florida State: 1. Louisville: 2. Washington State: 1. North Carolina: 0. Wake Forest: 1. Duke: 3. Virginia Tech: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Missouri: 3 by 32.5. Coastal Carolina: 2 by 8.3. William & Mary: 2 by 18.3. Stanford: 3 by 12.5. Florida State: 5 by 30.8. Louisville: 5 by 40.8. Washington State: 2 by 18.3. North Carolina: 1 by 4.2. Wake Forest: 0 by 10. Duke: 1 by 34.2. Virginia Tech: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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Wins1 · Games = 10 · +0 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Missouri

Best efficiency game

40.8 vs Louisville

Result
Sun 12/28@ MissouriSplash gameW 13-7320011
Sun 11/30vs Virginia TechW 27-722000
Sat 11/15@ DukeSplash gameW 34-1711003
Sun 11/9vs Wake ForestL 9-1600001
Sat 10/25@ North CarolinaW 17-1611000
Sat 10/18vs Washington StateW 22-2022001
Sat 10/4@ LouisvilleSplash gameW 30-2755101
Fri 9/26vs Florida StateW 46-3853100
Sat 9/20vs StanfordW 48-2031000
Sat 9/13vs William & MaryW 55-1622001
Sat 8/30vs Coastal CarolinaW 48-721000

Player Story

Emmanuel Karnley story

Emmanuel Karnley built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a cornerback from Antioch, CA wearing No. 19, spending time with Arizona and Virginia. The clearest part of Emmanuel Karnley's career was his defensive production: 40 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, 1 interception, and 13 passes defended across 18 career games in the available record. That gives Emmanuel Karnley's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    Arizona

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Virginia

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonArizona0
2024 Regular SeasonArizona515.51.65
2025 PostseasonVirginia1119.836
2025 Regular SeasonVirginia1119.830

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 21 Missouri

Week 1 · W 13-7 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

59.7 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 59.7 takeover score.

#2

@ Utah

Week 5 · W 23-10 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

54.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 54.7 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 25 Louisville

Week 6 · W 30-27 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

53.9 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 53.9 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 44 Duke

Week 12 · W 34-17 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

47.2 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 47.2 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 41 Florida State

Week 5 · W 46-38 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

40.5 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Virginia

11 primary output · 19.8 efficiency · 3 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Virginia

50.2

11 primary · 19.8 efficiency · 3 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Arizona

31.8

5 primary · 15.5 efficiency · 1.6 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

4

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games