Usage / Role
1%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Eastern Michigan
Ray Hester
DB • 5'11" • 190 lbs • Detroit, MI, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Ray Hester shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
7
Developing production for a defensive back
lowelite
Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
17
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan
2425
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Eastern Michigan
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Western Michigan
3★
- Committed To
- Eastern Michigan
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Ray Hester, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan. Ray Hester shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 2
Quick Answers
Ray Hester quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Eastern Michigan · DB
- Career Tackles
- 2
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 2 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan
- Top game
- Western Michigan
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Chippewa Valley · Eastern Michigan
- High school pipeline
- Chippewa Valley · 11 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 34 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 2 tackles · DB 866th (top 89%) · Mid-American 450th (top 78%) · National 4,741st (top 77%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 2 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.5 |
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Ray Hester played DB for Eastern Michigan. Across 2 tracked seasons, Ray Hester recorded 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Eastern Michigan.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Eastern Michigan paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 4.2 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: Western Michigan
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan
Games
2
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
4.2
Usage
0.6
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Western Michigan
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Northern Illinois: 0. Western Michigan: 0
Volume vs Efficiency
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Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
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2 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Western Michigan
Best efficiency game
4.2 vs Western Michigan
Career Arc
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- 1
Eastern Michigan
2024-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Eastern Michigan | 0 | 4.2 | 0.6 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 78 Western Michigan
Week 14 · L 21-31 · Conference game
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0
Havoc Plays
3.3 takeover
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 128 Northern Illinois
Week 7 · W 16-10 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
3.1 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan
0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage
36.5
#2
2024 Regular Season · Eastern Michigan
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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