Player Dossier

2023-2025

Duke

Semaj Turner

DE • 6'3" • 255 lbs • Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Semaj Turner shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

38%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

25

Developing production for an edge defender

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

28

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Duke

23242525

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Duke
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Arizona State
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8672

Reagan · Pfafftown, NC

Committed To
Duke
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Semaj Turner, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Duke. Semaj Turner shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
9
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Semaj Turner quick answers

Latest team and position
Duke · DE
Career Tackles
9
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 7 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Duke
Top game
Arizona State
Recruit profile
3-star · Reagan · Duke
High school pipeline
Reagan · 10 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 43 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
6 tackles · DE 199th (top 71%) · ACC 451st (top 57%) · National 3,523rd (top 57%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonDuke23-0--038.4
2024 Regular SeasonDuke00-0--0-
2025 PostseasonDuke50-01-032.4
2025 Regular SeasonDuke56-0--032.4

Related Context

Semaj Turner played DE for Duke. Across 3 tracked seasons, Semaj Turner recorded 9 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Duke.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Duke paired 0 primary output with 6.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 7 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: Arizona State

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · Duke

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

7

Usage

1.9

Consistency

6.7

Best Game by takeover score

Arizona State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arizona State: 1. Illinois: 0. NC State: 0. California: 0. UConn: 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 on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Arizona State: 0 by 10. Illinois: 1 by 4.2. NC State: 3 by 12.5. California: 1 by 4.2. UConn: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Arizona State

Best efficiency game

12.5 vs NC State

Result
Wed 12/31vs Arizona StateW 42-3900000
Sat 11/8@ UConnL 34-3711000
Sun 10/5@ CaliforniaW 45-2110000
Sat 9/20vs NC StateW 45-3330000
Sat 9/6vs IllinoisL 19-4510000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Duke

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonDuke06.31.1
2024 Regular SeasonDuke00
2025 PostseasonDuke171.91
2025 Regular SeasonDuke171.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 60 Arizona State

Week 1 · W 42-39 · Postseason

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

52.2 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.2 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 55 NC State

Week 4 · W 45-33 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

8.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.9 takeover score.

#3

vs Northwestern

Week 3 · W 38-14

0

Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

#4

@ UConn

Week 4 · W 41-7

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 53 UConn

Week 11 · L 34-37

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Duke

0 primary output · 6.3 efficiency · 1.1 usage

38.4

#2

2025 Postseason · Duke

32.4

1 primary · 7 efficiency · 1.9 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Duke

32.4

1 primary · 7 efficiency · 1.9 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games