Player Dossier

2024-2025

Virginia Tech

Emmett Laws

DL • 6'0" • 293 lbs • Elkton, MD, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Emmett Laws shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

12%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

20

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

9

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

47

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Virginia Tech

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Virginia Tech
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: South Carolina

Player Story

Emmett Laws built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Elkton, MD wearing No. 99, spending time with Virginia Tech. The clearest part of Emmett Laws' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8875

DeMatha Catholic · Hyattsville, MD

Committed To
Virginia Tech
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Emmett Laws, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Virginia Tech. Emmett Laws shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
14
TFL
1
Sacks
1

Quick Answers

Emmett Laws quick answers

Latest team and position
Virginia Tech · DL
Career Tackles
14
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 10 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · Virginia Tech
Top game
South Carolina
Recruit profile
3-star · DeMatha Catholic · Virginia Tech
High school pipeline
DeMatha Catholic · 82 FBS recruits · 7 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 99 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
12 tackles · DL 576th (top 54%) · ACC 346th (top 44%) · National 2,696th (top 44%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 PostseasonVirginia Tech12-0--040
2025 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech91211--032.1

Related Context

Emmett Laws played DL for Virginia Tech. Across 2 tracked seasons, Emmett Laws recorded 14 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Virginia Tech.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

Virginia Tech paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 7.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: South Carolina

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Virginia Tech

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

7.8

Usage

2

Consistency

3.7

Best Game by takeover score

South Carolina

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. South Carolina: 2. Vanderbilt: 0. Old Dominion: 0. NC State: 0. Wake Forest: 0. California: 0. Louisville: 0. Florida State: 0. Virginia: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. South Carolina: 3 by 32.5. Vanderbilt: 1 by 4.2. Old Dominion: 1 by 4.2. NC State: 1 by 4.2. Wake Forest: 1 by 4.2. California: 1 by 4.2. Louisville: 1 by 4.2. Florida State: 1 by 4.2. Virginia: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 2 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 7 · +0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

South Carolina

Best efficiency game

32.5 vs South Carolina

Result
Sun 11/30@ VirginiaL 7-2721000
Sun 11/16@ Florida StateL 14-3410000
Sat 11/1vs LouisvilleL 16-2811000
Fri 10/24vs CaliforniaW 42-3410000
Sat 10/4vs Wake ForestL 23-3011000
Sat 9/27@ NC StateW 23-2111000
Sat 9/13vs Old DominionL 26-4510000
Sat 9/6vs VanderbiltL 20-4410000
Sun 8/31@ South CarolinaSplash gameL 11-2430110

Player Story

Emmett Laws story

Emmett Laws built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Elkton, MD wearing No. 99, spending time with Virginia Tech. The clearest part of Emmett Laws' career was his defensive production: 14 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, and 1 sack across 10 career games in the available record. That gives Emmett Laws' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Virginia Tech

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 PostseasonVirginia Tech08.31.4
2025 Regular SeasonVirginia Tech27.822

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 49 South Carolina

Week 1 · L 11-24

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

76.4 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Minnesota

Week 1 · L 10-24 · Postseason

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Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 31 Virginia

Week 14 · L 7-27 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

5.8 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.8 takeover score.

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vs No. 25 Louisville

Week 10 · L 16-28 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

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vs No. 80 California

Week 9 · W 42-34 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · Virginia Tech

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.4 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Virginia Tech

32.1

2 primary · 7.8 efficiency · 2 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games