Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Kansas
Dakyus Brinkley
DE • 6'3" • 245 lbs • Katy, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Dakyus Brinkley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16 disruption score.
Impact Production
49
Developing production for an edge defender
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Reliability
35
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
73
High-upside career profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kansas
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Kansas
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Arizona
Player Story
Dakyus Brinkley built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive end from Katy, TX wearing No. 9, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Dakyus Brinkley's career was his defensive production:...
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- Committed To
- Kansas
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Dakyus Brinkley, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kansas. Dakyus Brinkley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 15
- TFL
- 5
- Sacks
- 1.5
Quick Answers
Dakyus Brinkley quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Kansas · DE
- Career Tackles
- 15
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 8 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Kansas
- Top game
- Arizona
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Katy · Kansas
- High school pipeline
- Katy · 61 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 9 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 15 tackles · DE 132nd (top 47%) · Big 12 288th (top 40%) · National 2,418th (top 39%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Kansas | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kansas | 8 | 15 | 5 | 1.5 | - | - | 0 | 44.9 |
Related Context
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Dakyus Brinkley played DE for Kansas. Across 2 tracked seasons, Dakyus Brinkley recorded 15 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kansas.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Kansas paired 6.5 primary output with 16 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 16 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Arizona
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Kansas
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
0.8
Efficiency
16
Usage
4.9
Consistency
22.8
Best Game by takeover score
Arizona
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Wagner: 0. Fresno State: 0.5. Missouri: 0. UCF: 1. Texas Tech: 0. Oklahoma State: 0. Arizona: 3. Iowa State: 2
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Wagner: 1 by 4.2. Fresno State: 5 by 25.8. Missouri: 1 by 4.2. UCF: 1 by 14.2. Texas Tech: 1 by 4.2. Oklahoma State: 1 by 4.2. Arizona: 2 by 38.3. Iowa State: 3 by 32.5
Split Comparison
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Wins0.4 · Games = 4 · -0.9 vs Losses
Losses1.3 · Games = 4 · +0.9 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Arizona
Best efficiency game
38.3 vs Arizona
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/22 | @ Iowa StateSplash game | L 14-38 | 3 | 3 | — | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | @ ArizonaSplash game | L 20-24 | 2 | 1 | — | 1.50 | 1.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | vs Oklahoma State | W 38-21 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Texas Tech | L 17-42 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ UCF | W 27-20 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | @ Missouri | L 31-42 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Fri 8/29 | vs Wagner | W 46-7 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/23 | vs Fresno State | W 31-7 | 5 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Dakyus Brinkley story
Dakyus Brinkley built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive end from Katy, TX wearing No. 9, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Dakyus Brinkley's career was his defensive production: 15 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, and 1.5 sacks across 8 career games in the available record. That gives Dakyus Brinkley's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Kansas
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Kansas | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Kansas | 6.5 | 16 | 4.9 | 6.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 28 Arizona
Week 11 · L 20-24 · Conference game
Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
79.4 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 79.4 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 33 Iowa State
Week 13 · L 14-38 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
63.3 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 63.3 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 66 Fresno State
Week 1 · W 31-7
0.5
Havoc Plays
30.8 takeover
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 30.8 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 76 UCF
Week 6 · W 27-20 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
30.6 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 30.6 takeover score.
#5
vs Wagner
Week 1 · W 46-7
0
Havoc Plays
4.5 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.5 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Kansas
6.5 primary output · 16 efficiency · 4.9 usage
44.9
#2
2024 Regular Season · Kansas
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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