Player Dossier

2020-2023

SMU

JaQwondis Burns

LB • 6'2" • 229 lbs • Bradenton, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

JaQwondis Burns shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19 disruption score.

Usage / Role

18%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

58

Solid production for a linebacker

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Reliability

38

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

71

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Minnesota

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Minnesota • SMU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Tulsa

Player Story

JaQwondis Burns built his college career from 2020 through 2023 as a linebacker from Bradenton, FL wearing No. 8, spending time with Minnesota and SMU. The clearest part of JaQwondis Burns' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8033

Westerville Central · Westerville, OH

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Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

JaQwondis Burns, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · Minnesota. JaQwondis Burns shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
28
TFL
4.5
Sacks
3
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

JaQwondis Burns quick answers

Latest team and position
SMU · LB
Career Tackles
28
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 13 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · Minnesota
Top game
Tulsa
Recruit profile
3-star · Westerville Central
High school pipeline
Westerville Central · 13 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 8 · Junior
2023 Tackles rank
13 tackles · LB 685th (top 56%) · American Athletic 278th (top 45%) · National 2,547th (top 43%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonMinnesota00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonMinnesota1311--063.3
2022 Regular SeasonSMU6121.50-1029.4
2023 Regular SeasonSMU6132211046.6

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2022Minnesota to SMUP4 to P479.8Jan 5, 2022

JaQwondis Burns played LB for Minnesota and SMU. Across 4 tracked seasons, JaQwondis Burns recorded 28 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with SMU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

Minnesota paired 2 primary output with 32.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 19 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2023 Regular Season improved on 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 Minnesota, SMU.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Tulsa

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2023 Regular Season · SMU

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

19

Usage

4.1

Consistency

33.3

Best Game by takeover score

Tulsa

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Louisiana Tech: 2. TCU: 0. Charlotte: 0. Temple: 1. Tulsa: 3. North Texas: 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. Louisiana Tech: 3 by 32.5. TCU: 1 by 4.2. Charlotte: 5 by 20.8. Temple: 0 by 10. Tulsa: 3 by 42.5. North Texas: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.2 · Games = 5 · +1.2 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -1.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Tulsa

Best efficiency game

42.5 vs Tulsa

Result
Sat 11/11vs North TexasW 45-2111000
Sat 10/28vs TulsaSplash gameW 69-1031110
Fri 10/20@ TempleW 55-000001
Sat 9/30vs CharlotteW 34-1652000
Sat 9/23@ TCUL 17-3411000
Sat 9/2vs Louisiana TechSplash gameW 38-1431110

Player Story

JaQwondis Burns story

JaQwondis Burns built his college career from 2020 through 2023 as a linebacker from Bradenton, FL wearing No. 8, spending time with Minnesota and SMU. The clearest part of JaQwondis Burns' career was his defensive production: 28 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, 3 sacks, and 2 passes defended across 13 career games in the available record. That gives JaQwondis 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.

  1. 1

    Minnesota

    2020-2021

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    SMU

    2022-2023

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2020202120222023
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonMinnesota0
2021 Regular SeasonMinnesota232.510.52
2022 Regular SeasonSMU2.512.53.20.5
2023 Regular SeasonSMU6194.13.5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Tulsa

Week 9 · W 69-10 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

80.8 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 80.8 takeover score.

#2

@ Purdue

Week 5 · W 20-13 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

73.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.3 takeover score.

#3

vs Memphis

Week 13 · W 34-31 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#4

vs Louisiana Tech

Week 1 · W 38-14

2

Havoc Plays

54.2 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 54.2 takeover score.

#5

vs Lamar

Week 2 · W 45-16

1

Havoc Plays

40.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · Minnesota

2 primary output · 32.5 efficiency · 10.5 usage

63.3

#2

2023 Regular Season · SMU

46.6

6 primary · 19 efficiency · 4.1 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · SMU

29.4

2.5 primary · 12.5 efficiency · 3.2 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games