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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2015-2016Georgia Southern
Ukeme Eligwe
LB • 6'2" • Stone Mountain, GA, USA
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Ukeme Eligwe shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 53.5 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker
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Reliability
96
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
94
Blue-chip, NFL-level ceiling
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Georgia Southern
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Georgia Southern
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: New Mexico State
Player Story
Ukeme Eligwe built his college career from 2015 through 2016 as a linebacker from Stone Mountain, GA wearing No. 7, spending time with Georgia Southern. The clearest part of Ukeme Eligwe's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Florida State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2012
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2017
- Selection
- Round 5 · Pick 40
- Overall
- No. 183
- NFL Team
- Kansas City Chiefs
Ukeme Eligwe, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · Georgia Southern. Ukeme Eligwe shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 53.5 disruption score.
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Ukeme Eligwe quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Georgia Southern · LB
- Career Tackles
- 104
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 11 games
- Best season
- 2016 Regular Season · Georgia Southern
- Top game
- New Mexico State
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Stone Mountain · Florida State
- High school pipeline
- Stone Mountain · 7 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- NFL Draft
- 2017 · Round 5 · Pick 40 · Kansas City Chiefs
- Latest roster
- No. 7 · Class 2016
- 2016 Tackles rank
- 104 tackles · LB 49th (top 5%) · Sun Belt 5th (top 2%) · National 66th (top 2%)
Ukeme Eligwe played LB for Georgia Southern. Across 2 tracked seasons, Ukeme Eligwe recorded 104 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Georgia Southern.
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