Player Dossier

2024-2025

Rice

Ephraim Dotson

CB • 5'10" • 181 lbs • Missouri City, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ephraim Dotson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Rice

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Rice
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UAB
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8204

Hightower · Missouri City, TX

Committed To
Rice
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Ephraim Dotson, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Rice. Ephraim Dotson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
6

Quick Answers

Ephraim Dotson quick answers

Latest team and position
Rice · CB
Career Tackles
6
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 5 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Rice
Top game
UAB
Recruit profile
3-star · Hightower · Rice
High school pipeline
Hightower · 42 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 14 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
5 tackles · CB 338th (top 72%) · American Athletic 387th (top 61%) · National 3,609th (top 59%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonRice11-0--037.5
2025 PostseasonRice41-0--038.3
2025 Regular SeasonRice44-0--038.3

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Rice to UnlistedG5/FCS to Unlisted21.2Jan 22, 2026

Ephraim Dotson played CB for Rice. Across 2 tracked seasons, Ephraim Dotson recorded 6 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Rice.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Rice paired 0 primary output with 5.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 5.2 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: UAB

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

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2025 Postseason · Rice

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

5.2

Usage

1.2

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

UAB

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Texas State: 0. Louisiana: 0. UAB: 0. North Texas: 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 on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Texas State: 1 by 4.2. Louisiana: 1 by 4.2. UAB: 2 by 8.3. North Texas: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UAB

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs UAB

Result
Fri 1/2@ Texas StateL 10-4111000
Sun 11/23vs North TexasL 24-5610000
Sat 11/8vs UABW 24-1722000
Sun 8/31@ LouisianaW 14-1210000

Career Arc

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

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    Rice

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonRice04.21
2025 PostseasonRice05.21.20
2025 Regular SeasonRice05.21.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 125 UAB

Week 11 · W 24-17 · Conference game

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

8.3 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.3 takeover score.

#2

vs South Florida

Week 14 · W 35-28 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 105 Louisiana

Week 1 · W 14-12

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 65 Texas State

Week 1 · L 10-41 · Postseason

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 22 North Texas

Week 13 · L 24-56 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Rice

0 primary output · 5.2 efficiency · 1.2 usage

38.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Rice

38.3

0 primary · 5.2 efficiency · 1.2 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Rice

37.5

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games