Player Dossier

2024-2025

UTEP

Ekow Taylor

CB • 6'5" • 220 lbs • Keller, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ekow Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

18%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

48

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

37

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

63

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UTEP

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
UTEP
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Missouri State

Player Story

Ekow Taylor built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a cornerback from Keller, TX wearing No. 6, spending time with UTEP. The clearest part of Ekow Taylor's career was his defensive production: 17 tackles,...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8306

Fossil Ridge · Keller, TX

Committed To
UTEP
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Ekow Taylor, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UTEP. Ekow Taylor shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
17
TFL
2.5
Sacks
2.5
QB hurries
2
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Ekow Taylor quick answers

Latest team and position
UTEP · CB
Career Tackles
17
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 11 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · UTEP
Top game
Missouri State
Recruit profile
3-star · Fossil Ridge · UTEP
High school pipeline
Fossil Ridge · 18 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 6 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
12 tackles · CB 243rd (top 52%) · Conference USA 245th (top 45%) · National 2,694th (top 44%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonUTEP450.50.5--011.5
2025 Regular SeasonUTEP712222-252.1

Related Context

Ekow Taylor played CB for UTEP. Across 2 tracked seasons, Ekow Taylor recorded 17 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with UTEP.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

UTEP paired 6 primary output with 15.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 15.7 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: Missouri State

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 · UTEP

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.9

Efficiency

15.7

Usage

4.7

Consistency

53.3

Best Game by takeover score

Missouri State

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Texas: 0. UL Monroe: 0. Louisiana Tech: 2. Sam Houston: 0. Jacksonville State: 1. Missouri State: 2. Delaware: 1

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Texas: 1 by 4.2. UL Monroe: 1 by 4.2. Louisiana Tech: 1 by 24.2. Sam Houston: 1 by 4.2. Jacksonville State: 6 by 35. Missouri State: 2 by 28.3. Delaware: 0 by 10

Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 1 · -1 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 6 · +1 vs Wins

Game Log

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7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Missouri State

Best efficiency game

35 vs Jacksonville State

Result
Sat 11/29@ DelawareL 31-6100000
Sat 11/15@ Missouri StateSplash gameL 24-3822110
Sat 11/8vs Jacksonville StateL 27-3063000
Wed 10/15@ Sam HoustonW 35-1711000
Sun 9/28vs Louisiana TechSplash gameL 11-3011110
Sun 9/21vs UL MonroeL 25-3111000
Sat 9/13@ TexasL 10-2711000

Player Story

Ekow Taylor story

Ekow Taylor built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a cornerback from Keller, TX wearing No. 6, spending time with UTEP. The clearest part of Ekow Taylor's career was his defensive production: 17 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, and 2.5 sacks across 11 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with UTEP. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Ekow Taylor's production has multiple signals. With 11 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across UTEP.

The arc is straightforward: Ekow Taylor moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    UTEP

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonUTEP17.71.6
2025 Regular SeasonUTEP615.74.75

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 108 Missouri State

Week 12 · L 24-38 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

60.8 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.8 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 92 Jacksonville State

Week 11 · L 27-30 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

60.6 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60.6 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 77 Louisiana Tech

Week 5 · L 11-30 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

60.3 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 60.3 takeover score.

#4

vs Southern Utah

Week 2 · L 24-27

1

Havoc Plays

52.5 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.5 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 109 Delaware

Week 14 · L 31-61 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

37.5 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 37.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · UTEP

6 primary output · 15.7 efficiency · 4.7 usage

52.1

#2

2024 Regular Season · UTEP

11.5

1 primary · 7.7 efficiency · 1.6 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games