Player Dossier

2023-2025

Texas Tech

Skyler Gill-Howard

DL • 6'1" • 290 lbs • Milwaukee, WI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Skyler Gill-Howard shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.8 disruption score.

Usage Score

6.6

Efficiency

18.8

Consistency

55.5

Season Value

22.3

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · Texas Tech

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
4
Program Path
Northern Illinois • Texas Tech
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green

Scouting Read

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Skyler Gill-Howard, DL. Best season Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · Texas Tech. Skyler Gill-Howard shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.8 disruption score.

Skyler Gill-Howard played DL for Northern Illinois and Texas Tech. Across 3 tracked seasons, Skyler Gill-Howard recorded 82 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Northern Illinois.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Texas Tech paired 4 primary output with 18.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 18.8 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 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Northern Illinois, Texas Tech.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Utah

Win with 2 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 Regular Season · Texas Tech

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

18.8

Usage

6.6

Consistency

55.5

Best Game by takeover score

Houston

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Unknown: 1. Kent State: 1. Oregon State: 0. Utah: 2. Houston: 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. Unknown: 2 by 18.3. Kent State: 4 by 26.7. Oregon State: 1 by 4.2. Utah: 3 by 32.5. Houston: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 4
First Half0.7 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half1 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs First Half
All Games0.8 · Games = 5

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Utah

Best efficiency game

32.5 vs Utah

Result
Sat 10/4@ HoustonW 35-1132000
Sat 9/20@ UtahW 34-1033101
Sat 9/13vs Oregon StateW 45-1410000
Sat 9/6vs Kent StateW 62-14430010
Sat 8/30vs Unknown210.500.500

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Northern Illinois

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Texas Tech

    2025

    Final stop

Season Progression

2023202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 PostseasonNorthern Illinois512.57.1
2023 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois512.57.10
2024 Regular SeasonNorthern Illinois11.526.38.86.5
2025 Regular SeasonTexas Tech418.86.6-7.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Bowling Green

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

5

Primary metric

5 disruption/tackle impact with 65.3 takeover score.

#2

Central Michigan

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53 takeover score.

#3

Toledo

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.2 takeover score.

#4

Utah

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 48.2 takeover score.

#5

Ball State

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2025 Regular Season · Texas Tech

4 primary output · 18.8 efficiency · 6.6 usage

22.3

#2

2024 Regular Season · Northern Illinois

18.1

11.5 primary · 26.3 efficiency · 8.8 usage

#3

2023 Postseason · Northern Illinois

11.3

5 primary · 12.5 efficiency · 7.1 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit context is not available for this player in the current dataset.

Career Facts

2

Career teams

4

Seasons tracked

82

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 28 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.