Player Dossier

2024-2025

USC

Elijah Newby

LB • 6'3" • 235 lbs • Cheshire, CT, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Elijah Newby shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

14%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

14

Developing production for a linebacker

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

23

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · USC

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
USC
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Missouri State
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.9247

Cheshire Academy · Cheshire, CT

Committed To
USC
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Elijah Newby, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · USC. Elijah Newby shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
9

Quick Answers

Elijah Newby quick answers

Latest team and position
USC · LB
Career Tackles
9
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 4 entries · 4 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · USC
Top game
Missouri State
Recruit profile
4-star · Cheshire Academy · USC
High school pipeline
Cheshire Academy · 26 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 26 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
7 tackles · LB 831st (top 66%) · Big Ten 406th (top 52%) · National 3,285th (top 53%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 PostseasonUSC21-0--036.7
2024 Regular SeasonUSC21-0--036.7
2025 PostseasonUSC22-0--046.1
2025 Regular SeasonUSC25-0--046.1

Related Context

Elijah Newby played LB for USC. Across 2 tracked seasons, Elijah Newby recorded 9 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with USC.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

USC paired 0 primary output with 14.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 14.6 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: Missouri State

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · USC

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

14.6

Usage

2.9

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Missouri State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. TCU: 0. Missouri State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Missouri State

Best efficiency game

20.8 vs Missouri State

Result
Wed 12/31@ TCUL 27-3021000
Sat 8/30vs Missouri StateW 73-1354000

Career Arc

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    USC

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2024202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 PostseasonUSC04.20.7
2024 Regular SeasonUSC04.20.70
2025 PostseasonUSC014.62.90
2025 Regular SeasonUSC014.62.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 108 Missouri State

Week 1 · W 73-13

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

18.6 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 18.6 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 37 TCU

Week 1 · L 27-30 · Postseason

0

Havoc Plays

6.9 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.9 takeover score.

#3

vs Texas A&M

Week 1 · W 35-31 · Postseason

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#4

@ Minnesota

Week 6 · L 17-24 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss 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 · USC

0 primary output · 14.6 efficiency · 2.9 usage

46.1

#2

2025 Regular Season · USC

46.1

0 primary · 14.6 efficiency · 2.9 usage

#3

2024 Postseason · USC

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games