Player Dossier

2024-2025

North 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 19.7 disruption score.

Usage Score

6.2

Efficiency

19.7

Consistency

13.3

Season Value

16.5

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season · North Texas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
2
Program Path
North Texas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Unknown

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Zhaiylen Scott, DL. Best season Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season · North Texas. Zhaiylen Scott shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19.7 disruption score.

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: 2024 Regular Season

North Texas paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 19.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Unknown

Game with 2 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

0.8

Efficiency

19.7

Usage

6.2

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

South Alabama

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Unknown: 2. Western Michigan: 0. Washington State: 0. Army: 0. South Alabama: 2

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. Unknown: 5 by 40.8. Western Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Washington State: 2 by 8.3. Army: 3 by 12.5. South Alabama: 3 by 32.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.5 · Games = 4
First Half0.7 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half1 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs First Half
All Games0.8 · Games = 5

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Unknown

Best efficiency game

40.8 vs Unknown

Result
Sat 9/27vs South AlabamaW 36-2233110
Sat 9/20@ ArmyW 45-3830000
Sat 9/13vs Washington StateW 59-1021000
Sat 9/6@ Western MichiganW 33-3011000
Sun 8/31vs Unknown54110

Career Arc

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    North Texas

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonNorth Texas04.20.8
2025 Regular SeasonNorth Texas419.76.24

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Unknown

Game with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 51.6 takeover score.

#2

South Alabama

2

Primary metric

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 48.5 takeover score.

#3

Army

0

Primary metric

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.7 takeover score.

#4

Washington State

0

Primary metric

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#5

South Alabama

0

Primary metric

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 1.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2024 Regular Season · North Texas

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

35

#2

2025 Regular Season · North Texas

16.5

4 primary · 19.7 efficiency · 6.2 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8475

Cedar Hill · Cedar Hill, TX

Committed To
North Texas
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Career Facts

1

Career teams

2

Seasons tracked

16

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 2 tracked seasons, 7 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.