Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Purdue
Demeco Kennedy
DL • 6'2" • 305 lbs • Lexington, KY, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Demeco Kennedy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.3 disruption score.
Impact Production
35
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
28
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
58
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Purdue
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Purdue
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Illinois
Player Story
Demeco Kennedy built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Lexington, KY wearing No. 18, spending time with Purdue. The clearest part of Demeco Kennedy's career was his defensive...
Read the storyDemeco Kennedy, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Purdue. Demeco Kennedy shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.3 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 28
- TFL
- 3
- Sacks
- 1.5
- QB hurries
- 1
Quick Answers
Demeco Kennedy quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Purdue · DL
- Career Tackles
- 28
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 15 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Purdue
- Top game
- Illinois
- High school pipeline
- Frederick Douglass · 14 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 18 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 22 tackles · DL 310th (top 29%) · Big Ten 221st (top 29%) · National 1,897th (top 31%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Purdue | 4 | 6 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 38.8 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Purdue | 11 | 22 | 3 | 1.5 | 1 | - | 0 | 38.7 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Purdue to Louisville | P4 to P4 | 81.4 | Jan 7, 2026 |
Demeco Kennedy played DL for Purdue. Across 2 tracked seasons, Demeco Kennedy recorded 28 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Purdue.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Purdue paired 0 primary output with 6.3 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 13.3 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: Illinois
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 · Purdue
Games
11
Havoc Plays / G
0.5
Efficiency
13.3
Usage
3.5
Consistency
12.1
Best Game by takeover score
Illinois
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Ball State: 0. USC: 2. Notre Dame: 0. Illinois: 2. Minnesota: 1. Northwestern: 0.5. Rutgers: 0. Michigan: 0. Ohio State: 0. Washington: 0. Indiana: 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. Ball State: 2 by 8.3. USC: 1 by 24.2. Notre Dame: 1 by 4.2. Illinois: 4 by 36.7. Minnesota: 2 by 18.3. Northwestern: 6 by 30. Rutgers: 1 by 4.2. Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Ohio State: 1 by 4.2. Washington: 2 by 8.3. Indiana: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 10 · +0.6 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
11 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Illinois
Best efficiency game
36.7 vs Illinois
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/29 | vs Indiana | L 3-56 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/16 | @ Washington | L 13-49 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | vs Ohio State | L 10-34 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | @ Michigan | L 16-21 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Rutgers | L 24-27 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | @ Northwestern | L 0-19 | 6 | 1 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | @ Minnesota | L 20-27 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | vs IllinoisSplash game | L 27-43 | 4 | 1 | — | 1.50 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Notre Dame | L 30-56 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs USCSplash game | L 17-33 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 8/30 | vs Ball State | W 31-0 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Demeco Kennedy story
Demeco Kennedy built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Lexington, KY wearing No. 18, spending time with Purdue. The clearest part of Demeco Kennedy's career was his defensive production: 28 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 1.5 sacks across 15 career games in the available record. That gives Demeco Kennedy's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Purdue
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Purdue | 0 | 6.3 | 1.2 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Purdue | 5.5 | 13.3 | 3.5 | 5.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 24 Illinois
Week 6 · L 27-43 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
77.2 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 77.2 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 16 USC
Week 3 · L 17-33 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
2
Havoc Plays
63.3 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 63.3 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 70 Minnesota
Week 7 · L 20-27 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
39.7 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 39.7 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 51 Northwestern
Week 8 · L 0-19 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
34.2 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 34.2 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 13 Washington
Week 12 · L 13-49 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
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Havoc Plays
8.3 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.3 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Purdue
0 primary output · 6.3 efficiency · 1.2 usage
38.8
#2
2025 Regular Season · Purdue
38.7
5.5 primary · 13.3 efficiency · 3.5 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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