Player Dossier

2023-2025

Iowa State

Zaimir Hawk

DL • 6'3" • 305 lbs • Hillside, NJ, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Zaimir Hawk shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

10%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

24

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

17

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

32

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Iowa State

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Snapshot

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

Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8428

Hillside · Hillside, NJ

Committed To
Iowa State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Zaimir Hawk, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Iowa State. Zaimir Hawk shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
19
TFL
1.5
QB hurries
4

Quick Answers

Zaimir Hawk quick answers

Latest team and position
Iowa State · DL
Career Tackles
19
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 5 entries · 16 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Iowa State
Top game
BYU
Recruit profile
3-star · Hillside · Iowa State
High school pipeline
Hillside · 5 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 53 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
8 tackles · DL 696th (top 65%) · Big 12 389th (top 54%) · National 3,229th (top 53%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 PostseasonIowa State41-0--043.7
2023 Regular SeasonIowa State41-02-043.7
2024 PostseasonIowa State710.50--027.7
2024 Regular SeasonIowa State78-01-027.7
2025 Regular SeasonIowa State58101-048.1

Related Context

Zaimir Hawk played DL for Iowa State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Zaimir Hawk recorded 19 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Iowa State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Iowa State paired 2 primary output with 10.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10.7 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: BYU

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

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Iowa State

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

10.7

Usage

3.1

Consistency

55.5

Best Game by takeover score

BYU

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Iowa: 0. BYU: 1. Arizona State: 0.5. TCU: 0.5. Kansas: 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. Iowa: 1 by 4.2. BYU: 1 by 14.2. Arizona State: 2 by 13.3. TCU: 3 by 17.5. Kansas: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.2 · Games = 3 · -0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.8 · Games = 2 · +0.6 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

BYU

Best efficiency game

17.5 vs TCU

Result
Sat 11/22vs KansasW 38-1410000
Sat 11/8@ TCUW 20-17320.5000
Sat 11/1vs Arizona StateL 19-24210.5000
Sat 10/25vs BYUL 27-4111000
Sat 9/6vs IowaW 16-1311000

Career Arc

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    Iowa State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20232023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 PostseasonIowa State27.12.1
2023 Regular SeasonIowa State27.12.10
2024 PostseasonIowa State1.57.52.3-0.5
2024 Regular SeasonIowa State1.57.52.30
2025 Regular SeasonIowa State210.73.10.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 18 BYU

Week 9 · L 27-41 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

54.5 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 54.5 takeover score.

#2

vs Texas Tech

Week 10 · L 22-23 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

53.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.6 takeover score.

#3

vs TCU

Week 6 · W 27-14 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

49.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 49.2 takeover score.

#4

@ Ohio

Week 3 · L 7-10

1

Havoc Plays

43.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.3 takeover score.

#5

@ Miami

Week 1 · W 42-41 · Postseason

0.5

Havoc Plays

35.6 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 35.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Iowa State

2 primary output · 10.7 efficiency · 3.1 usage

48.1

#2

2023 Postseason · Iowa State

43.7

2 primary · 7.1 efficiency · 2.1 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Iowa State

43.7

2 primary · 7.1 efficiency · 2.1 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games