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2025 Lee Hunter DL UCF NFL Draft Report CFBALL

  • Position Defensive Line
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Ht./Wt. 6-4 / 320
  • Hometown Mobile, AL.
  • Highschool Blount HS

R-SOPHOMORE (2023)

  • Appeared and started in each game for the Knights in ‘23
  • Honorable Mention DL pick on All-Big 12 team chosen by league coaches
  • Third-leading UCF tackler in ’23 with 69
  • Made more tackles in ’23 than any other DT in the nation, according to Pro Football Focus
  • Honorable Mention pick on College Football Network Midseason All-Big 12 defensive team
  • Registered first career start vs Kent St led team with eight tackles (five solo)
  • Four tackles vs Boise St
  • Five tackles vs Villanova
  • Six tackles vs Kansas St
  • Notched a career-high nine vs Baylor including one sack for 18 yards
  • Five tackles including 2.5 TFL and a sack for eight yards vs Oklahoma
  • Seven tackles including 1.5 TFL vs Cincinnati
  • Secured a team-high eight tackles vs Okla St including two TFL for five yards
  • Played key role in holding leading rusher in nation, Oklahoma State’s Ollie Gordon II, to 25 yards on 12 carries
  • Six tackles including career-high two TFL for six yards vs Houston

R-FRESHMAN (2022)

  • Appeared in 13 games in ’22 (all but S.C. St.)
  • Finished the season with 17 tackles, including nine solo stops
  • Tallied a tackle against Louisville in his first collegiate game;
  • Made two tackles and recorded his first career sack against FAU
  • Had three solo stops vs. ECU

PRIOR TO UCF

  • Transferred to UCF in January 2022 after spending the 2021 season at Auburn
  • Did not play in a game in 2021 season
  • Recorded 54 tackles, 20 TFL, 4.5 sacks as senior in 2020 for coach Lev Holly and the Leopards at Blount High School in Mobile, Alabama
  • Also scored a rushing and receiving TD and had nine catches for 149 yards
  • Made 77 tackles, 23 TFL as junior in 2019
  • First team AHSAA Class 6A all-state
  • AL.com A-List
  • Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Game selection
  • Rated a top five overall recruit from Alabama by ESPN, 24/7, Rivals, PrepStar
  • Nationally ranked No. 7 among defensive tackle prospects by ESPN and 24/7

Personal

  • Majoring in interdisciplinary studies in College of Undergraduate Studies.

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