Player Dossier

2022-2025

Memphis

Rayyan Buell

DL • 6'2" • 275 lbs • Hornell, NY, USA

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Rayyan Buell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

25%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

25

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

26

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Ohio

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Snapshot

Career Teams
3
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Ohio • Colorado • Memphis
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Northern Illinois

Player Story

Rayyan Buell built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Hornell, NY wearing No. 88, spending time with Colorado, Memphis, and Ohio. The clearest part of Rayyan Buell's career was his...

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Rayyan Buell, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Postseason · Ohio. Rayyan Buell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
46
TFL
15.5
Sacks
6.5
QB hurries
7
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Rayyan Buell quick answers

Latest team and position
Memphis · DL
Career Tackles
46
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 24 games
Best season
2023 Postseason · Ohio
Top game
Northern Illinois
High school pipeline
Neshoba Central · 0 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 88 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
5 tackles · DL 798th (top 74%) · American Athletic 396th (top 62%) · National 3,709th (top 60%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonOhio692221040.8
2023 PostseasonOhio11110--071
2023 Regular SeasonOhio112911.54.53-071
2024 Regular SeasonColorado22-01-021.1
2025 PostseasonMemphis50-01-012.8
2025 Regular SeasonMemphis5510--012.8

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025Colorado to MemphisP4 to G5/FCS80.7Jan 1, 2025
2024Ohio to ColoradoG5/FCS to P487.2Apr 15, 2024

Rayyan Buell played DL for Ohio, Colorado, and Memphis. Across 4 tracked seasons, Rayyan Buell recorded 46 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Ohio.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Postseason

Ohio paired 20 primary output with 29.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 8.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across Ohio, Colorado, Memphis.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: South Florida

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

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2025 Postseason · Memphis

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

8.2

Usage

2.4

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

South Florida

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. NC State: 1. Florida Atlantic: 0. Tulsa: 0. UAB: 0. South Florida: 1

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. NC State: 0 by 10. Florida Atlantic: 1 by 4.2. Tulsa: 1 by 4.2. UAB: 2 by 8.3. South Florida: 1 by 14.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 3 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.2 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

South Florida

Best efficiency game

14.2 vs South Florida

Result
Fri 12/19@ NC StateL 7-3100000
Sat 10/25vs South FloridaW 34-3111100
Sat 10/18@ UABL 24-3121000
Sun 10/5vs TulsaW 45-710000
Sat 9/27@ Florida AtlanticW 55-2610000

Player Story

Rayyan Buell story

Rayyan Buell built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Hornell, NY wearing No. 88, spending time with Colorado, Memphis, and Ohio. The clearest part of Rayyan Buell's career was his defensive production: 46 tackles, 15.5 tackles for loss, 6.5 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 24 career games in the available record. That gives Rayyan Buell'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

    Ohio

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Colorado

    2024

    Peak year stop

  3. 3

    Memphis

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202220232023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonOhio717.95.6
2023 PostseasonOhio2029.6913
2023 Regular SeasonOhio2029.690
2024 Regular SeasonColorado19.22.4-19
2025 PostseasonMemphis28.22.41
2025 Regular SeasonMemphis28.22.40

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Northern Illinois

Week 7 · L 13-23 · Conference game

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

79.2 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 79.2 takeover score.

#2

vs Miami (OH)

Week 9 · L 16-30 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

75 takeover

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 75 takeover score.

#3

vs Fordham

Week 4 · W 59-52

2

Havoc Plays

74.7 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Iowa State

Week 3 · W 10-7

2.5

Havoc Plays

73.6 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 73.6 takeover score.

#5

vs Kent State

Week 6 · W 42-17 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

73.1 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 73.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Postseason · Ohio

20 primary output · 29.6 efficiency · 9 usage

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#2

2023 Regular Season · Ohio

71

20 primary · 29.6 efficiency · 9 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Ohio

40.8

7 primary · 17.9 efficiency · 5.6 usage

Milestones

6

Impact games

9

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games