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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Penn State
Xavier Gilliam
DT • 6'2" • 302 lbs • Montgomery Village, MD, USA
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Xavier Gilliam shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
24
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
16
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
44
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Penn State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
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- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Penn State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Florida International
Player Story
Xavier Gilliam built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive tackle from Montgomery Village, MD wearing No. 54, spending time with Penn State. The clearest part of Xavier Gilliam's career was his...
Read the storyXavier Gilliam, DT. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Penn State. Xavier Gilliam shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 17
- TFL
- 3
- Sacks
- 0.5
- QB hurries
- 1
Quick Answers
Xavier Gilliam quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Penn State · DT
- Career Tackles
- 17
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 13 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Penn State
- Top game
- Florida International
- High school pipeline
- Quince Orchard · 20 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 54 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 16 tackles · DT 114th (top 50%) · Big Ten 288th (top 37%) · National 2,395th (top 39%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Penn State | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.7 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Penn State | 12 | 16 | 3 | 0.5 | 1 | - | 0 | 35.2 |
Related Context
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Xavier Gilliam played DT for Penn State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Xavier Gilliam recorded 17 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Penn State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Penn State paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 9.3 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: Florida International
Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Penn State
Games
12
Havoc Plays / G
0.4
Efficiency
9.3
Usage
2.4
Consistency
11.1
Best Game by takeover score
Florida International
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Nevada: 1. Florida International: 1.5. Villanova: 0. Oregon: 0. UCLA: 0. Northwestern: 0. Iowa: 0. Ohio State: 0. Indiana: 0. Michigan State: 0. Nebraska: 1. Rutgers: 1
Volume vs Efficiency
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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Nevada: 0 by 10. Florida International: 4 by 31.7. Villanova: 1 by 4.2. Oregon: 2 by 8.3. UCLA: 1 by 4.2. Northwestern: 1 by 4.2. Iowa: 1 by 4.2. Ohio State: 1 by 4.2. Indiana: 1 by 4.2. Michigan State: 1 by 4.2. Nebraska: 2 by 18.3. Rutgers: 1 by 14.2
Split Comparison
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Wins0.8 · Games = 6 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 6 · -0.8 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
12 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Florida International
Best efficiency game
31.7 vs Florida International
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/29 | @ Rutgers | W 40-36 | 1 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/23 | vs Nebraska | W 37-10 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | @ Michigan State | W 28-10 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | vs Indiana | L 24-27 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | @ Ohio State | L 14-38 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | @ Iowa | L 24-25 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | vs Northwestern | L 21-22 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ UCLA | L 37-42 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/27 | vs Oregon | L 24-30 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Villanova | W 52-6 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | vs Florida International | W 34-0 | 4 | 2 | — | 1.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | vs Nevada | W 46-11 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Xavier Gilliam story
Xavier Gilliam built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive tackle from Montgomery Village, MD wearing No. 54, spending time with Penn State. The clearest part of Xavier Gilliam's career was his defensive production: 17 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 0.5 sacks across 13 career games in the available record. That gives Xavier Gilliam's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Penn State
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Penn State | 0 | 4.2 | 0.7 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Penn State | 4.5 | 9.3 | 2.4 | 4.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 107 Florida International
Week 2 · W 34-0
Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1.5
Havoc Plays
62.8 takeover
1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 62.8 takeover score.
#2
@ No. 72 Rutgers
Week 14 · W 40-36 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
44.5 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 44.5 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 46 Nebraska
Week 13 · W 37-10 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
43.3 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.3 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 116 Nevada
Week 1 · W 46-11
1
Havoc Plays
34.2 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 34.2 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 4 Oregon
Week 5 · L 24-30 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
0
Havoc Plays
6.7 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Penn State
0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage
36.7
#2
2025 Regular Season · Penn State
35.2
4.5 primary · 9.3 efficiency · 2.4 usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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