Demeco Kennedy

Junior defensive lineman for Louisville. 2025: 1.5 sacks, 3 tackles for loss, 22 tackles.

DL · Louisville · Jr. · #2

6′3″ · 305 lb · Lexington, KY · Fredrick Douglass

CFB Index 62 · #109 of 330 interior linemenLow confidenceTransferred Purdue → Louisville for 2026

Next upSat Sep 19 · 3:30 pm ETvs SMUL&N Federal Credit Union StadiumLouisville by 1.5

The numbers

1.5

sacks · 2025

3 TFL · 22 tackles · 1 hurries

Best game: 1 sacks, 1 TFL, 1 tackles, vs USC

His career numbers, season by season

The story

3 defensive lineman for Louisville. 2025: 1.5 sacks, 3 tackles for loss, 22 tackles.

Signed as a 3-star recruit to Purdue in 2024.
Transferred from Purdue to Louisville in 2026.

His career, year by year

How he plays

Controls the point of attack and doesn't move.

Sacks: 74th percentile.

The full scouting read

Demeco Kennedy

DL · Louisville · Jr · #2

Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Demeco Kennedy has played for two head coaches in two seasons at Louisville. The receipt on tape: 6 tackles, 0.5 TFL against Northwestern, Week 8, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2024Purdue1-11HC: Ryan Walters · Balanced, slow tempo

2025Purdue2-10HC: Barry Odom · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

62Quality starter #109 of 330?

Low confidence6 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: passes defended (18th percentile).

Box-score production (6)

Sacks#707 / 2975 · 74th pct

1.5

Tackles for loss#1001 / 2975 · 63rd pct

3.0

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct

Tackles#1869 / 2975 · 36th pct

Solo tackles#2127 / 2975 · 26th pct

Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct

Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.

Splits & context

Splits · Per-game

2025 season · 11 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home6g	1.7	0.4	0.2	0.0
Road5g	2.4	0.1	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-75g	2.0	0.5	0.3	0.0
Weeks 8+6g	2.0	0.1	0.0	0.0

Supporting cast · Scheme

Staff and system around the player

2026 season

Head Coach

Jeff Brohm

Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.

Awards

Player standing · 2025

Rotational

Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.

Recognition

Roster2-deepStarterRecognizedEliteApex

Production · CFB Index Score

62 · #109 of 330 interior linemen

Three-star recruit. Now #109 at the position.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Purdue	22	9	3.0	1.5	--	--	--
2024	Purdue	6	3	0.0	0.0	--	--	--
Career		28	12	3.0	1.5	--	--	--

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 11 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	SACK	INT	Note
Wk 1	W 31-0vs Ball State	2	2	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 3	L 17-33vs USC	1	1	1.0	1.0	—
Wk 4	L 30-56@ Notre Dame	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 6	L 27-43vs Illinois	4	1	1.5	0.5	—
Wk 7	L 20-27@ Minnesota	2	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 8	L 0-19@ Northwestern	6	1	0.5	0.0	—	Season-high 6 tackles
Wk 9	L 24-27vs Rutgers	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 10	L 16-21@ Michigan	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 11	L 10-34vs Ohio State	1	0	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 12	L 13-49@ Washington	2	2	0.0	0.0	—
Wk 14	L 3-56vs Indiana	1	1	0.0	0.0	—
Total		22	9	3.0	1.5	—

How he plays

Play style

The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

11 games

22Tackles

9Solo

3TFL

1.5Sacks

0Pass def.

0INT

22 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 TFL.

Week 31 sack
Week 60.5 sacks

Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.

DNA match

Player DNA

Nose Anchor

The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Kody Harris-Miller’s 2024 season.

Kody Harris-Miller

84%match

Army · 2024

Dominic Wiseman

South Alabama · 2025

81%

Blessman Ta'ala

Hawai'i · 2022

All-Mountain West

80%

Demond Taylor

Northern Illinois · 2022

80%

C.J. Fite

Arizona State · 2024

All-Big 12

80%

Matches Kody on

Weight

Class year

Hurry rate

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a sophomore, his production profile tracks closest to Talan Carter's sophomore season at Jacksonville State (2025).

Talan Carter

80%match

Jacksonville State · 2025

All-Conference USA

William Echoles

Ole Miss · 2025

79%

Preston Carr

East Carolina · 2025

78%

Christian Davis

Louisiana Tech · 2025

78%

Caleb Moore

Georgia Southern · 2025

78%

Matches Talan on

TFL rate

Weight

Hurry rate

Differs from Talan on

Sack rate (higher)

Background

2025 (Purdue): Appeared in all 12 games ... earned four starts and played 450 snaps ... compiled 21 tackles, 3.0 tackles for loss, and 1.5 sacks on the season ... notched a career best six tackles versus Northwestern ... credited with four tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss against Illinois. 2024 (...

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The defensive line · Louisville

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#3Tyler ThompsonDL · Jr.7.5 tackles for loss · 2025
#17Adonijah GreenDL · Jr.6 tackles for loss · 2025
#99Jerod Smith IIDL · Jr.5 tackles for loss · 2025
#2Demeco KennedyDL · Jr.3 tackles for loss · 2025

12 more on the roster · Louisville team page

Stats from CFBD · ESPN · fan discourse. Every figure computed from source tables — not invented. Methodology

20244 games

2026

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Rotational

Career stats

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Nose Anchor

Background

The defensive line · Louisville