Player Dossier

2025-2025

LSU

Damien Shanklin

DE • 6'5" • 260 lbs • Indianapolis, IN, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Damien Shanklin shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 48.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for an edge defender

lowelite

Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

90

Elite ceiling indicators

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · LSU

25

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
LSU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: SE Louisiana

Player Story

Damien Shanklin built his college career in 2025 as a defensive end from Indianapolis, IN wearing No. 17, spending time with LSU. The clearest part of Damien Shanklin's career was his defensive production: 2 tackles,...

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4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.9233

Warren Central · Indianapolis, IN

Committed To
LSU
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Damien Shanklin, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · LSU. Damien Shanklin shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 48.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
2
TFL
2
Sacks
2

Quick Answers

Damien Shanklin quick answers

Latest team and position
LSU · DE
Career Tackles
2
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 1 entries · 1 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · LSU
Top game
SE Louisiana
Recruit profile
4-star · Warren Central · LSU
High school pipeline
Warren Central · 41 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 17 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
2 tackles · DE 245th (top 87%) · SEC 531st (top 70%) · National 4,430th (top 72%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 Regular SeasonLSU1222--087.1

Related Context

Damien Shanklin played DE for LSU. Across 1 tracked season, Damien Shanklin recorded 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with LSU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

LSU paired 4 primary output with 48.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 48.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: SE Louisiana

Win with backfield disruption leading the way. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · LSU

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

4

Efficiency

48.3

Usage

17.6

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

SE Louisiana

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Split Comparison

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All Games4 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

SE Louisiana

Best efficiency game

48.3 vs SE Louisiana

Result
Sat 9/20vs SE Louisiana2+ sacks · Splash gameW 56-1022220

Player Story

Damien Shanklin story

Damien Shanklin built his college career in 2025 as a defensive end from Indianapolis, IN wearing No. 17, spending time with LSU. The clearest part of Damien Shanklin's career was his defensive production: 2 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 1 career game in the available record. That gives Damien Shanklin's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    LSU

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 Regular SeasonLSU448.317.6

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs SE Louisiana

Week 4 · W 56-10

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

4

Havoc Plays

82.8 takeover

4 disruption/tackle impact with 82.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · LSU

4 primary output · 48.3 efficiency · 17.6 usage

87.1

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games