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Kayla Duran

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1999-09-29 (age 26)
Height:: 178 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 14 GP · 372 min · 0 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2026: -0.256 — ranked 280 of 385 Composite page →

Standard Stats

			Playing Time			Performance									Per 90
Rk	Season ▴	Team	GP	GS	Min	Gls	Ast	PK	Sh	SoT	KP	Pass%	CrdY	CrdR	Gls/90	G+A/90
1	2025	Gotham	9	1	126	0	0	0	1	0	2	80.8	0	0	0.00	0.00
2	2026	Gotham	5	4	246	0	0	0	0	0	4	73.1	1	0	0.00	0.00
	2 Yrs		14	5	372	0	0	0	1	0	6	75.6	1	0	0.00	0.00

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2025	Gotham FC	126	0	0.14	-0.14	0.10	-0.29	-0.22	-0.07	-0.21	0.24	0.17	0.028
2	2026	Gotham FC	246	0	0.07	-0.07	0.03	0.10	0.26	-0.16	0.04	1.36	0.50	0.058
	2 Yrs		372	0	0.21	-0.21	0.05	-0.19	0.04	-0.23	-0.05	1.60	0.39	0.086

Composite Rating

Our overall player rating, unique to this site: five components — xG, ball carries, passes into the box, defensive value, and goalkeeping — combined into one score and averaged across every selection-model run of the season. Rank is her place among all rated players that year.

Glossary

		Components
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2026	-0.472	-0.332	0.287	-0.741	0.000	-0.256	280	385

Structural Roles

Start counts by role, per season — twice. Explicit is where the team sheet wrote her; Inferredis what a model reading only her on-ball events made of each start. The Read column states each season's verdict from the two most common roles.

			Explicit (Team Sheet)								Inferred (Event Data)
Rk	Season ▴	Starts	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	Read
1	2025	1		1								1							played her role
2	2026	4		4								4							played her role
	2 Yrs	5		5								5							played her role

Similar Players

Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

Rk	Player	Team	Season	Pos	Similarity
1	Imani Dorsey	Royals	2025	Defender	0.664
2	Nikki Stanton	Reign	2024	Midfielder	0.606
3	Jenna Walker	Current	2023	Defender	0.597
4	Kate Del Fava	Royals	2025	Defender	0.596
5	Ellie Jean	Racing	2025	Defender	0.587
6	Kysha Sylla	Spirit	2025	Defender	0.587
7	Frankie Tagliaferri	Courage	2023	Midfielder	0.580
8	Meaghan Nally	Thorns	2024	Defender	0.580
9	Cori Dyke	Pride	2025	Midfielder	0.572
10	Kelli Hubly	Bay FC	2025	Defender	0.567