Player Dossier

2018-2021

Ball State

Brock Burns

LB • 6'3" • 229 lbs • Fishers, IN, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brock Burns shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

13

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

3

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

24

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Ball State

1819202021

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Ball State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Eastern Michigan

Player Story

Brock Burns built his college career from 2018 through 2021 as a linebacker from Fishers, IN wearing No. 44, spending time with Ball State. The clearest part of Brock Burns' career was his defensive production: 43...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2017 · Rating 0.7985

Hamilton Southeastern · Fishers, IN

Committed To
Ball State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2017

Brock Burns, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Ball State. Brock Burns shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
43
TFL
1.5
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Brock Burns quick answers

Latest team and position
Ball State · LB
Career Tackles
43
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 21 games
Best season
2019 Regular Season · Ball State
Top game
Eastern Michigan
Recruit profile
3-star · Hamilton Southeastern · Ball State
High school pipeline
Hamilton Southeastern · 13 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 44 · Junior
2021 Tackles rank
3 tackles · LB 994th (top 80%) · Mid-American 347th (top 63%) · National 3,764th (top 63%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2018 Regular SeasonBall State61910--028.4
2019 Regular SeasonBall State7180.501-034.4
2020 PostseasonBall State41-0--024.2
2020 Regular SeasonBall State42-01-024.2
2021 Regular SeasonBall State43-0-1021.1

Related Context

Brock Burns played LB for Ball State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Brock Burns recorded 43 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2018 with Ball State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2019 Regular Season

Ball State paired 1.5 primary output with 12.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 5.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2021 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Wyoming

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2021 Regular Season · Ball State

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

5.6

Usage

0.5

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Wyoming

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Penn State: 0. Wyoming: 1. Army: 0. Northern Illinois: 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. Penn State: 1 by 4.2. Wyoming: 0 by 10. Army: 1 by 4.2. Northern Illinois: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 1 · -0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Wyoming

Best efficiency game

10 vs Wyoming

Result
Thu 11/11@ Northern IllinoisL 29-3010000
Sat 10/2vs ArmyW 28-1611000
Sat 9/18@ WyomingL 12-4500001
Sat 9/11@ Penn StateL 13-4411000

Player Story

Brock Burns story

Brock Burns built his college career from 2018 through 2021 as a linebacker from Fishers, IN wearing No. 44, spending time with Ball State. The clearest part of Brock Burns' career was his defensive production: 43 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, and 1 pass defended across 21 career games in the available record. That gives Brock Burns' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

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    Ball State

    2018-2021

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20182019202020202021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 Regular SeasonBall State114.93.2
2019 Regular SeasonBall State1.512.92.40.5
2020 PostseasonBall State15.61.9-0.5
2020 Regular SeasonBall State15.61.90
2021 Regular SeasonBall State15.60.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Eastern Michigan

Week 8 · L 20-42 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

79.7 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 79.7 takeover score.

#2

@ Kent State

Week 13 · L 38-41 · Conference game

1.5

Havoc Plays

70.6 takeover

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 70.6 takeover score.

#3

vs Northern Illinois

Week 12 · W 31-25 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

52.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.2 takeover score.

#4

@ Wyoming

Week 3 · L 12-45

1

Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#5

@ Toledo

Week 10 · L 13-45 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

15.5 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 15.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2019 Regular Season · Ball State

1.5 primary output · 12.9 efficiency · 2.4 usage

34.4

#2

2018 Regular Season · Ball State

28.4

1 primary · 14.9 efficiency · 3.2 usage

#3

2020 Postseason · Ball State

24.2

1 primary · 5.6 efficiency · 1.9 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games