Player Dossier

2023-2025

Texas A&M

Rylan Kennedy

DE • 6'3" • 239 lbs • Mansfield, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Rylan Kennedy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

21%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

52

Solid production for an edge defender

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Reliability

44

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

66

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Texas A&M

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Texas A&M
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UTSA

Player Story

Rylan Kennedy built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive end from Mansfield, TX wearing No. 15, spending time with Texas A&M. The clearest part of Rylan Kennedy's career was his defensive...

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Rylan Kennedy, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Texas A&M. Rylan Kennedy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 16.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
40
TFL
5.5
Sacks
3.5
QB hurries
5
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Rylan Kennedy quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas A&M · DE
Career Tackles
40
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 5 entries · 23 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Texas A&M
Top game
UTSA
High school pipeline
Lake Ridge · 13 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 15 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
14 tackles · DE 140th (top 50%) · SEC 304th (top 41%) · National 2,549th (top 42%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 PostseasonTexas A&M42-0-109.4
2023 Regular SeasonTexas A&M44-0--09.4
2024 PostseasonTexas A&M111-0--041.8
2024 Regular SeasonTexas A&M111921.542041.8
2025 Regular SeasonTexas A&M8143.5211043.2

Related Context

Rylan Kennedy played DE for Texas A&M. Across 3 tracked seasons, Rylan Kennedy recorded 40 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Texas A&M.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Texas A&M paired 7.5 primary output with 16.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 16.7 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: UTSA

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 A&M

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.9

Efficiency

16.7

Usage

4.1

Consistency

43.3

Best Game by takeover score

UTSA

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UTSA: 2. Utah State: 0. Notre Dame: 0. Florida: 0. Arkansas: 0. LSU: 2. South Carolina: 1.5. Texas: 2

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. UTSA: 4 by 36.7. Utah State: 1 by 4.2. Notre Dame: 1 by 4.2. Florida: 1 by 4.2. Arkansas: 1 by 4.2. LSU: 2 by 28.3. South Carolina: 2 by 23.3. Texas: 2 by 28.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 7 · -1.2 vs Losses
Losses2 · Games = 1 · +1.2 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

UTSA

Best efficiency game

36.7 vs UTSA

Result
Sat 11/29@ TexasSplash gameL 17-2722001
Sat 11/15vs South CarolinaW 31-30211.5000
Sat 10/25@ LSUSplash gameW 49-2521110
Sat 10/18@ ArkansasW 45-4211000
Sat 10/11vs FloridaW 34-1711000
Sat 9/13@ Notre DameW 41-4010000
Sat 9/6vs Utah StateW 44-2210000
Sat 8/30vs UTSASplash gameW 42-2442110

Player Story

Rylan Kennedy story

Rylan Kennedy built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive end from Mansfield, TX wearing No. 15, spending time with Texas A&M. The clearest part of Rylan Kennedy's career was his defensive production: 40 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, and 4 passes defended across 23 career games in the available record. That gives Rylan Kennedy's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Texas A&M

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20232023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 PostseasonTexas A&M18.81.2
2023 Regular SeasonTexas A&M18.81.20
2024 PostseasonTexas A&M9.516.24.38.5
2024 Regular SeasonTexas A&M9.516.24.30
2025 Regular SeasonTexas A&M7.516.74.1-2

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 62 UTSA

Week 1 · W 42-24

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

76.7 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.7 takeover score.

#2

@ Florida

Week 3 · W 33-20 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

70.8 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70.8 takeover score.

#3

vs LSU

Week 9 · W 38-23 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

64.4 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 64.4 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 32 LSU

Week 9 · W 49-25 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

62.5 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 62.5 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 17 Texas

Week 14 · L 17-27 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2

Havoc Plays

55.5 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 55.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Texas A&M

7.5 primary output · 16.7 efficiency · 4.1 usage

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#2

2024 Postseason · Texas A&M

41.8

9.5 primary · 16.2 efficiency · 4.3 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Texas A&M

41.8

9.5 primary · 16.2 efficiency · 4.3 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

7

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games