Player Dossier

2020-2025

Kennesaw State

Jamar Rucks

DL • 6'3" • 235 lbs • Buford, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jamar Rucks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

23

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

23

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: 2024 Regular Season · Kennesaw State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
App State • Kennesaw State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Louisiana Tech

Player Story

Jamar Rucks built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Buford, GA wearing No. 11, spending time with App State and Kennesaw State. The clearest part of Jamar Rucks' career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2020 · Rating 0.8422

Lanier · Buford, GA

Committed To
App State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2020

Jamar Rucks, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kennesaw State. Jamar Rucks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
34
TFL
2.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
4

Quick Answers

Jamar Rucks quick answers

Latest team and position
Kennesaw State · DL
Career Tackles
34
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 19 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Kennesaw State
Top game
Louisiana Tech
Recruit profile
3-star · Lanier · App State
High school pipeline
Carlsbad · 27 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 11 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
10 tackles · DL 641st (top 60%) · Conference USA 271st (top 50%) · National 2,936th (top 48%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonApp State00-0--0-
2021 Regular SeasonApp State00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonApp State120.50--038.5
2024 Regular SeasonKennesaw State1122113-039.2
2025 Regular SeasonKennesaw State610101-021

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2023App State to Kennesaw StateG5/FCS to G5/FCS21.2Dec 5, 2022

Jamar Rucks played DL for App State and Kennesaw State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Jamar Rucks recorded 34 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Kennesaw State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Kennesaw State paired 5 primary output with 12.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 10.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across App State, Kennesaw State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas State

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

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2025 Regular Season · Kennesaw State

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

10.3

Usage

2.7

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Arkansas State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wake Forest: 0. Merrimack: 1. Arkansas State: 1. Middle Tennessee: 0. Louisiana Tech: 0. Liberty: 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. Wake Forest: 1 by 4.2. Merrimack: 1 by 14.2. Arkansas State: 2 by 18.3. Middle Tennessee: 2 by 8.3. Louisiana Tech: 3 by 12.5. Liberty: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.4 · Games = 5 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.4 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

Arkansas State

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs Arkansas State

Result
Sat 11/29@ LibertyW 48-4211000
Thu 10/9vs Louisiana TechW 35-730000
Sat 9/27vs Middle TennesseeW 24-1621000
Sat 9/20vs Arkansas StateW 28-2121000
Sat 9/13vs MerrimackW 27-1311100
Fri 8/29@ Wake ForestL 9-1010000

Player Story

Jamar Rucks story

Jamar Rucks built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Buford, GA wearing No. 11, spending time with App State and Kennesaw State. The clearest part of Jamar Rucks' career was his defensive production: 34 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 19 career games in the available record. That gives Jamar Rucks' 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

    App State

    2020-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kennesaw State

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20202021202220242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonApp State0
2021 Regular SeasonApp State00
2022 Regular SeasonApp State0.513.33.70.5
2024 Regular SeasonKennesaw State512.93.84.5
2025 Regular SeasonKennesaw State210.32.7-3

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Louisiana Tech

Week 14 · L 0-33 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

81.7 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 81.7 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 100 Arkansas State

Week 4 · W 28-21

1

Havoc Plays

62.8 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 62.8 takeover score.

#3

vs Merrimack

Week 3 · W 27-13

1

Havoc Plays

48.1 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.1 takeover score.

#4

vs Liberty

Week 9 · W 27-24 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

45.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 45.3 takeover score.

#5

vs UT Martin

Week 5 · L 13-24

1

Havoc Plays

37.5 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 37.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Kennesaw State

5 primary output · 12.9 efficiency · 3.8 usage

39.2

#2

2022 Regular Season · App State

38.5

0.5 primary · 13.3 efficiency · 3.7 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Kennesaw State

21

2 primary · 10.3 efficiency · 2.7 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games