Player Dossier

2015-2020

New Mexico

Brandon Burton

S • 6'1" • 200 lbs • Los Angeles, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brandon Burton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.

Usage / Role

14%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

29

Developing production for a safety

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Reliability

37

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

33

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · UCLA

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
UCLA • New Mexico
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Hawai'i

Player Story

Brandon Burton built his college career from 2015 through 2020 as a safety from Los Angeles, CA wearing No. 21, spending time with New Mexico and UCLA. The clearest part of Brandon Burton's career was his defensive...

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Brandon Burton, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2016 Regular Season · UCLA. Brandon Burton shows a ball-hunting defender profile with partial disruption data.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
32
TFL
0.5

Quick Answers

Brandon Burton quick answers

Latest team and position
New Mexico · S
Career Tackles
32
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 13 games
Best season
2016 Regular Season · UCLA
Top game
Hawai'i
Latest roster
No. 21 · Senior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonUCLA00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonUCLA23-0--038.9
2017 Regular SeasonUCLA57-0--038.2
2019 Regular SeasonNew Mexico6220.50--025.6
2020 Regular SeasonNew Mexico00-0--0-

Related Context

Brandon Burton played S for UCLA and New Mexico. Across 5 tracked seasons, Brandon Burton recorded 32 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with New Mexico.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2016 Regular Season

UCLA paired 0 primary output with 6.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2019 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 16.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2020 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across UCLA, New Mexico.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Hawai'i

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2019 Regular Season · New Mexico

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.1

Efficiency

16.1

Usage

3.7

Consistency

5.6

Best Game by takeover score

Hawai'i

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. San José State: 0. Colorado State: 0. Hawai'i: 0.5. Boise State: 0. Air Force: 0. Utah State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. San José State: 5 by 20.8. Colorado State: 3 by 12.5. Hawai'i: 4 by 21.7. Boise State: 2 by 8.3. Air Force: 5 by 20.8. Utah State: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

First Half0.2 · Games = 3 · +0.2 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 3 · -0.2 vs First Half

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Hawai'i

Best efficiency game

21.7 vs Hawai'i

Result
Sat 11/30vs Utah StateL 25-3832000
Sat 11/23vs Air ForceL 22-4453000
Sun 11/17@ Boise StateL 9-4222000
Sat 10/26vs Hawai'iL 31-45410.5000
Sat 10/12vs Colorado StateL 21-3531000
Sat 10/5@ San José StateL 21-3252000

Player Story

Brandon Burton story

Brandon Burton built his college career from 2015 through 2020 as a safety from Los Angeles, CA wearing No. 21, spending time with New Mexico and UCLA. The clearest part of Brandon Burton's career was his defensive production: 32 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss across 13 career games in the available record. That gives Brandon Burton's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    UCLA

    2015-2017

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    New Mexico

    2019-2020

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20152016201720192020
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonUCLA0
2016 Regular SeasonUCLA06.31.30
2017 Regular SeasonUCLA05.81.10
2019 Regular SeasonNew Mexico0.516.13.70.5
2020 Regular SeasonNew Mexico0-0.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Hawai'i

Week 9 · L 31-45 · Conference game

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5

Havoc Plays

47 takeover

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 47 takeover score.

#2

vs Air Force

Week 13 · L 22-44 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

19.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 19.2 takeover score.

#3

@ San José State

Week 6 · L 21-32 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

16.7 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 16.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Utah State

Week 14 · L 25-38 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.

#5

vs Colorado State

Week 7 · L 21-35 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2016 Regular Season · UCLA

0 primary output · 6.3 efficiency · 1.3 usage

38.9

#2

2017 Regular Season · UCLA

38.2

0 primary · 5.8 efficiency · 1.1 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · New Mexico

25.6

0.5 primary · 16.1 efficiency · 3.7 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games