#45

Denzel Lowry

Senior defensive lineman on Louisville's 2025 roster.

DL · Louisville · Sr. · #45

6′1″ · 290 lb · Virginia Beach, VA

CFB Index 49 · #172 of 330 interior linemenLow confidenceReturning to Louisville for 2026

The numbers

sacks · 2025

2 TFL · 16 tackles · 1 hurries

Best game: 1 TFL, 1 tackles, vs Eastern Kentucky

His career numbers, season by season

The story

4 defensive lineman on Louisville's 2025 roster.

Signed with Old Dominion in 2021.
Transferred from Old Dominion to Louisville in 2025.

His career, year by year

How he plays

Wins his gap play after play.

QB hurries: 55th percentile.

The full scouting read

Denzel Lowry

DL · Louisville · Sr · #45

Wins his gap play after play. Across five seasons and two programs, two head coaches: Ricky Rahne and Jeff Brohm. 2024 brought the first one: All-Sun Belt. The receipt on tape: 2 tackles against Virginia, Week 6, 2025.

Low coverage — composed from the verified record.

positional archetype classification
head-coach lineage
recognition record
game log

2025 snapshot

Season context · Team result + system

2021Old Dominion6-7HC: Ricky Rahne · Run-leaning, fast tempo

2022Old Dominion3-9HC: Ricky Rahne · Pass-leaning, slow tempo

2023Old Dominion6-7HC: Ricky Rahne · Run-leaning

2024Old Dominion5-7HC: Ricky Rahne · Run-leaning

2025Louisville9-4HC: Jeff Brohm · Balanced

Where this defender ranks vs the field

Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort

49Rotational starter #172 of 330?

Low confidence7 metrics · season cumulative

Concern: solo tackles (2nd percentile).

Box-score production (7)

QB hurries#1007 / 2975 · 55th pct

Forced fumbles#36 / 687 · 47th pct

Tackles for loss#1424 / 2975 · 47th pct

2.0

Sacks#1575 / 2975 · 24th pct

0.0

Tackles#2295 / 2975 · 21st pct

Passes defended#1916 / 2975 · 18th pct

Solo tackles#2892 / 2975 · 2nd 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 · 12 games

Home/Road · Season halves

Home vs Road

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Home8g	1.4	0.1	0.0	0.0
Road4g	1.2	0.2	0.0	0.0

First half vs Second half

	TKL/g	TFL/g	SACK/g	PD/g
Weeks 1-76g	1.7	0.2	0.0	0.0
Weeks 8+6g	1.0	0.2	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

49 · #172 of 330 interior linemen

Unranked recruit. Now #172 at the position.

2026 outlook

Outside shot for All-ACC

Based on 2025: #37 of 73 ACC DLs

How the All-ACC estimate is computed

15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.

Career stats

Season	Team
2025	Louisville	16	3	2.0	0.0	--	--	--
2024	Old Dominion	51	12	3.0	1.5	--	--	--
2023	Old Dominion	46	9	5.0	3.0	1	--	--
2022	Old Dominion	34	9	5.0	3.5	1	--	--
2021	Old Dominion	5	1	0.5	0.0	--	--	--
Career		152	34	15.5	8.0	2	--	--

Signature game

SIGNATURE GAME · Week 8 · 2025

W 24–21

at Miami

1 TOT

A wire-to-wire battle — won by 3 on the road.

With M. Moss — 248 yds · 2 TD · 0 INT · QBR 71.5 · -9 rush yds (3 car) · 1 TD · D. Chapeau — 3 rush yds (1 car)

Game log

Game log · Week-by-week

2025 season · 12 games

Box score · CFBD

Wk	Opp	TKL	SOLO	TFL	INT	Note
Wk 1	W 51-17vs Eastern Kentucky	1	1	1.0	—
Wk 2	W 28-14vs James Madison	2	1	0.0	—	Season-high 2 tackles
Wk 4	W 40-17vs Bowling Green	2	0	0.0	—
Wk 5	W 34-27@ Pittsburgh	2	0	0.0	—
Wk 6	L 27-30vs Virginia	2	0	0.0	—
Wk 8	W 24-21@ Miami	1	0	0.0	—
Wk 9	W 38-24vs Boston College	1	0	0.0	—
Wk 10	W 28-16@ Virginia Tech	1	1	1.0	—
Wk 11	L 26-29vs California	1	0	0.0	—
Wk 12	L 19-20vs Clemson	1	0	0.0	—
Wk 13	L 6-38@ SMU	1	0	0.0	—
Bowl	W 27-22vs Toledo	1	0	0.0	—
Total		16	3	2.0	—

How he plays

Play style

Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.

CFB Index positional classification

Activity vs finishing · season enumeration

What the box score actually says

12 games

16Tackles

3Solo

2TFL

0Sacks

0Pass def.

0INT

16 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2 TFL.

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.

2026 Outlook

Louisville

2026 Depth chart

Projected starter

Defensive line · Louisville

Returning around him

1 Louisville player drafted to NFL
Transfer portal: -7 net (33 in / 40 out)

2026 Award watch

No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)

Louisville · Last season: 9-4 (AP #19) · Talent rank #37 · 2026 recruiting class #48

DNA match

Player DNA

Two-Gap Base

Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.

IDL

His 2025 production profile sits closest to Samuel Obiang’s 2020 season.

Samuel Obiang

92%match

Texas State · 2020

Sione Tonga'Uiha

UTEP · 2021

86%

James Mitchell

Colorado State · 2022

NFL Rd 5

86%

Tuli Letuligasenoa

Washington · 2022

85%

Maurice Strong Jr.

South Alabama · 2024

85%

Matches Samuel on

Sack rate

TFL rate

Height

Not enough data yet for this comparison.

As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Dvon J-Thomas's graduate season at Penn State (2024).

Dvon J-Thomas

84%match

Penn State · 2024

Grady Kelly

Michigan State · 2025

80%

Dierre Kelly

Bowling Green · 2025

79%

Matt Lawson

New Mexico State · 2024

79%

D'Anta Johnson

East Carolina · 2024

All-AAC

77%

Matches Dvon on

Class year

Hurry rate

TFL rate

Player DNA

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Gabriel Iniguez Jr.

Utah State · 2024

92%

Carlos Allen

Houston · 2024

90%

Fatafehi Vailea

North Texas · 2024

89%

Owen Stoudmire

Boston College · 2024

89%

Skyler Gill-Howard

Northern Illinois · 2024

89%

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

Denzel Lowry

2021

202412 games

202512 games

2025 snapshot

Splits & context

Awards

Rotational

Career stats

Signature game

Game log

How he plays

DNA match

Two-Gap Base

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