Player Dossier

2025-2025

Texas

Elijah Barnes

LB • 6'1" • 244 lbs • Dallas, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Elijah Barnes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

60%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

84

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Texas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Texas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Michigan

Player Story

Elijah Barnes built his college career in 2025 as a linebacker from Dallas, TX wearing No. 30, spending time with Texas. The clearest part of Elijah Barnes' career was his defensive production: 4 tackles, 1 tackle...

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4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.9661

Skyline · Dallas, TX

Committed To
Texas
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Elijah Barnes, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Texas. Elijah Barnes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
4
TFL
1
Sacks
1

Quick Answers

Elijah Barnes quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas · LB
Career Tackles
4
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 2 entries · 2 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Texas
Top game
Michigan
Recruit profile
4-star · Skyline · Texas
High school pipeline
Skyline · 60 FBS recruits · 4 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 30 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · LB 964th (top 76%) · SEC 462nd (top 61%) · National 3,824th (top 62%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 PostseasonTexas2311--053.2
2025 Regular SeasonTexas21-0--053.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Texas to KentuckyP4 to P485.6Jan 11, 2026

Elijah Barnes played LB for Texas. Across 1 tracked season, Elijah Barnes recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Texas.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Texas paired 2 primary output with 18.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 18.4 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: Michigan

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

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · Texas

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

18.4

Usage

5.4

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Michigan

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Michigan: 2. Arkansas: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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First Half2 · Games = 1 · +2 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · -2 vs First Half

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Michigan

Best efficiency game

32.5 vs Michigan

Result
Wed 12/31vs MichiganSplash gameW 41-2733110
Sat 11/22vs ArkansasW 52-3711000

Player Story

Elijah Barnes story

Elijah Barnes built his college career in 2025 as a linebacker from Dallas, TX wearing No. 30, spending time with Texas. The clearest part of Elijah Barnes' career was his defensive production: 4 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, and 1 sack across 2 career games in the available record. That gives Elijah Barnes' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

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    Texas

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 PostseasonTexas218.45.4
2025 Regular SeasonTexas218.45.40

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 25 Michigan

Week 1 · W 41-27 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

71.9 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.9 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 53 Arkansas

Week 13 · W 52-37 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Texas

2 primary output · 18.4 efficiency · 5.4 usage

53.2

#2

2025 Regular Season · Texas

53.2

2 primary · 18.4 efficiency · 5.4 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games