Career: Doyle played in 27 games as an Eagle, holding totals of 160 tackles and eight passes broken up, including an interception.
2022: He played in and started all 11 games for Eastern, leading the team with 84 tackles. He recorded three pass break ups and an interception. Doyle had six games with at least nine tackles, including 10 against Sacramento State (10/15/22) and 12 against both Montana State (9/24/22) and Weber State (10/8/22). He recorded his first interception as an Eagle at Cal Poly (10/22/22). He has pass breakups at Oregon (9/10/22), vs. Montana State (9/24/22) and at Idaho (11/5/22).
2021: Doyle played 10 games in his second season with the Eagles, making eight starts. He collected 40 total tackles, three passes broken up, one tackle for loss, and a quarterback hurry. Against UNLV on 9/2/21, Doyle had seven tackles, one of them for a loss of three yards, in a 35-33 double overtime victory in which he helped make the game-winning stop on UNLV’s two-point conversion attempt. At Western Illinois on 9/18/21, he had five tackles and recorded a pass break up. His season-high in tackles (10) came against Montana on 10/2/21, a game in which he also had a pass break up. He had seven tackles and a quarterback hurry against Idaho on 10/16/21.
2020-21: He had 36 tackles in six games played, but had no tackles while playing sparingly in EWU’s opener versus Idaho (2/27/21). He had his first tackles of his EWU career against Northern Arizona (3/6/21) when he finished with seven and a pass broken up. He had a pass broken up and a quarterback hurry versus Idaho State (3/13/21) and then he had a career-high nine tackles against Cal Poly (3/27/01). Doyle made the first start of his EWU career in EWU’s 32-22 win at 11th-ranked UC Davis (4/3/21) and had a team-high eight tackles. At the time, Doyle bumped himself to second on the team with 30 tackles, with all of those coming during EWU's four-game winning streak. He also had two passes broken up in the 2020-21 season, but missed the game versus Idaho (4/10/21) which extended EWU’s winning streak to five. Doyle closed the year with six tackles versus North Dakota State (4/24/21) in the FCS Playoffs.
Arizona State: Played in five games for Arizona State in 2019 after redshirting the 2018 season. He did play against No. 15 Michigan on Sept. 8, 2018, and was still able to retain his redshirt status. He began at ASU as a safety but converted to linebacker in 2019.
HS: Graduated from Bishop Alemany High School in California in 2018. Was a three-star prospect across all major publications, including 247 Sports which had him rated as the No. 68 safety in the country in the 2018 class. He was also listed as No. 80 by ESPN and ranked as the No. 87 prospect in California. Rivals also ranked him as a three-star recruit. Doyle had 138 total tackles in his career, including 54 tackles, two pass deflections and a fumble recovery as a senior. As a sophomore, he caught 27 passes for 398 yards and three touchdowns. He was coached in high school by James Washington. Also attending Bishop Alemany are his EWU teammate Johnny Edwards IV (’17), as well as former Eagle All-America quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. (’11).
Personal: Communications studies major. Born 1/26/00 in Tarzana, Calif. His parents are Karalus and Camille Doyle. His full first name is Elyjah, but he goes by Ely, which is pronounced “ee-lie.”
| Year |
GP |
TT |
Hi |
S |
TL-Yds |
FF-FR |
PBU |
I-Yds |
| 2020-21 |
6 |
36 |
9 |
0 |
0-0 |
0-0 |
2 |
0-0 |
| 2021 |
10 |
40 |
10 |
0 |
1-3 |
0-0 |
3 |
0-0 |
| 2022 |
11 |
84 |
12 |
0 |
2-2 |
0-0 |
3 |
1-0 |
| Career |
27 |
160 |
12 |
0 |
3-5 |
0-0 |
8 |
1-0 |
QB Hurries: 2020-21/1; 2021/1; Totals/2.
ELY DOYLE Top Tackling Performances (4 with 10+)
12 tackles – Weber State – 10/8/22
12 tackles – Montana State – 9/24/22
10 tackles – Sacramento State – 10/15/22
10 tackles – Montana – 10/2/21
