As a freshman, Rylan Lujo immediately established himself as a premier threat at Dayton. The natural infielder showed a lot of tools in his first collegiate season, which earned him the ability to transfer to Georgia for his sophomore season.
In 2025, Lujo showed a profile that was a simultaneously awkward mix of explosive and clanky. He slashed .361/.415/.556, with nine home runs, showing top-of-the-scale contact skills, with an elite twelve percent whiff rate, and a seven percent whiff rate on pitches inside the strike zone. It was a see-ball, hit-ball approach that made him an aggressive hitter, chasing out of the zone at an elevated clip, though his raw contact skills helped buoy him beyond that. He was a classic low walk, low strikeout hitter.
Lujo's swing tended to look more mechanical than smooth, a testament to perhaps lacking raw strength. His peak exit velocities exceeded those of your …