Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025North Texas
Zhaiylen Scott
DL • 6'1" • 240 lbs • Cedar Hill, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Zhaiylen Scott shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.7 disruption score.
Impact Production
75
High-end production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
34
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
80
High-upside career profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · North Texas
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- North Texas
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Lamar
Player Story
Zhaiylen Scott built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Cedar Hill, TX wearing No. 45, spending time with North Texas. The clearest part of Zhaiylen Scott's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- North Texas
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Zhaiylen Scott, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · North Texas. Zhaiylen Scott shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 25.7 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 16
- TFL
- 2
- Sacks
- 2
- QB hurries
- 4
Quick Answers
Zhaiylen Scott quick answers
- Latest team and position
- North Texas · DL
- Career Tackles
- 16
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 7 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · North Texas
- Top game
- Lamar
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Cedar Hill · North Texas
- High school pipeline
- Cedar Hill · 76 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 45 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 14 tackles · DL 532nd (top 50%) · American Athletic 261st (top 41%) · National 2,561st (top 42%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | North Texas | 2 | 2 | - | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 24.6 |
| 2025 Regular Season | North Texas | 5 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 3 | - | 0 | 48.3 |
Related Context
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Zhaiylen Scott played DL for North Texas. Across 2 tracked seasons, Zhaiylen Scott recorded 16 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with North Texas.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
North Texas paired 7 primary output with 25.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 25.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Lamar
Win with 4 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 Regular Season · North Texas
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
1.4
Efficiency
25.7
Usage
6.5
Consistency
13.3
Best Game by takeover score
Lamar
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Lamar: 4. Western Michigan: 0. Washington State: 0. Army: 0. South Alabama: 3
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. Lamar: 5 by 60.8. Western Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Washington State: 2 by 8.3. Army: 3 by 12.5. South Alabama: 3 by 42.5
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
First Half1.3 · Games = 3 · -0.2 vs Second Half
Second Half1.5 · Games = 2 · +0.2 vs First Half
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
5 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Lamar
Best efficiency game
60.8 vs Lamar
Player Story
Zhaiylen Scott story
Zhaiylen Scott built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Cedar Hill, TX wearing No. 45, spending time with North Texas. The clearest part of Zhaiylen Scott's career was his defensive production: 16 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 7 career games in the available record. That gives Zhaiylen Scott's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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North Texas
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | North Texas | 1 | 9.2 | 3 | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | North Texas | 7 | 25.7 | 6.5 | 6 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Lamar
Week 1 · W 51-0
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
4
Havoc Plays
86.9 takeover
4 disruption/tackle impact with 86.9 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 114 South Alabama
Week 5 · W 36-22
3
Havoc Plays
72.5 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 72.5 takeover score.
#3
@ South Alabama
Week 1 · W 52-38
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Havoc Plays
52.8 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.8 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 74 Army
Week 4 · W 45-38 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
8.6 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.6 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 61 Washington State
Week 3 · W 59-10
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Havoc Plays
7.2 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · North Texas
7 primary output · 25.7 efficiency · 6.5 usage
48.3
#2
2024 Regular Season · North Texas
24.6
1 primary · 9.2 efficiency · 3 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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