Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Iowa State
Alijah Carnell
DL • 6'5" • 290 lbs • Henderson, NV, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Alijah Carnell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.5 disruption score.
Impact Production
20
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
14
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
35
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Iowa State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Iowa State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas State
3★
- Committed To
- Iowa State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Alijah Carnell, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Iowa State. Alijah Carnell shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.5 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 8
- TFL
- 0.5
- Sacks
- 0.5
- QB hurries
- 1
Quick Answers
Alijah Carnell quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Iowa State · DL
- Career Tackles
- 8
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 8 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Iowa State
- Top game
- Arkansas State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Bishop Gorman · Iowa State
- High school pipeline
- Bishop Gorman · 116 FBS recruits · 10 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 56 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 6 tackles · DL 721st (top 67%) · Big 12 407th (top 56%) · National 3,377th (top 55%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Iowa State | 2 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.2 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Iowa State | 6 | 6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | - | 0 | 34.9 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Iowa State to Penn State | P4 to P4 | 81.4 | Jan 5, 2026 |
Alijah Carnell played DL for Iowa State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Alijah Carnell recorded 8 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Iowa State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Iowa State paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 7.5 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: Arkansas State
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Iowa State
Games
6
Havoc Plays / G
0.3
Efficiency
7.5
Usage
2.5
Consistency
11.1
Best Game by takeover score
Arkansas State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Iowa: 0. Arkansas State: 1. Arizona: 1. BYU: 0. TCU: 0. Oklahoma State: 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. Iowa: 1 by 4.2. Arkansas State: 2 by 18.3. Arizona: 0 by 10. BYU: 1 by 4.2. TCU: 1 by 4.2. Oklahoma State: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.4 · Games = 5 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.4 vs Wins
Game Log
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6 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Arkansas State
Best efficiency game
18.3 vs Arkansas State
Career Arc
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Iowa State
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Iowa State | 0 | 4.2 | 0.9 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Iowa State | 2 | 7.5 | 2.5 | 2 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 100 Arkansas State
Week 3 · W 24-16
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
55 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 55 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 28 Arizona
Week 5 · W 39-14 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
54.2 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 54.2 takeover score.
#3
@ Arizona State
Week 15 · L 19-45 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#4
@ Utah
Week 13 · W 31-28 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 121 Oklahoma State
Week 14 · W 20-13 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Iowa State
0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage
37.2
#2
2025 Regular Season · Iowa State
34.9
2 primary · 7.5 efficiency · 2.5 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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