Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2021-2025Michigan State
Ru'Quan Buckley
DL • 6'5" • 325 lbs • Wyoming, MI, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Ru'Quan Buckley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13 disruption score.
Impact Production
40
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
21
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
61
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Michigan State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- Nebraska • Michigan State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Iowa
Player Story
Ru'Quan Buckley built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Wyoming, MI wearing No. 88, spending time with Michigan State and Nebraska. The clearest part of Ru'Quan Buckley's career...
Read the storyRu'Quan Buckley, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Michigan State. Ru'Quan Buckley shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 24
- TFL
- 4
- Sacks
- 2
- QB hurries
- 2
Quick Answers
Ru'Quan Buckley quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Michigan State · DL
- Career Tackles
- 24
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 18 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Michigan State
- Top game
- Iowa
- High school pipeline
- Grand Oaks · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 88 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 13 tackles · DL 561st (top 52%) · Big Ten 324th (top 42%) · National 2,641st (top 43%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Nebraska | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 37.5 |
| 2022 Regular Season | Nebraska | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | Nebraska | 2 | 1 | - | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 30.3 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Michigan State | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 20.4 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Michigan State | 8 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 0 | 41.5 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Nebraska to Michigan State | P4 to P4 | 80.7 | May 2, 2024 |
Ru'Quan Buckley played DL for Nebraska and Michigan State. Across 5 tracked seasons, Ru'Quan Buckley recorded 24 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Michigan State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Michigan State paired 5 primary output with 13 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 13 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Nebraska, Michigan State.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Iowa
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2025 Regular Season · Michigan State
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
0.6
Efficiency
13
Usage
4.9
Consistency
12.5
Best Game by takeover score
Iowa
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Youngstown State: 0. USC: 0. UCLA: 0. Indiana: 0. Michigan: 2. Penn State: 0. Iowa: 2. Maryland: 1
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. Youngstown State: 1 by 4.2. USC: 1 by 4.2. UCLA: 1 by 4.2. Indiana: 1 by 4.2. Michigan: 2 by 28.3. Penn State: 2 by 8.3. Iowa: 5 by 40.8. Maryland: 0 by 10
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.7 · Games = 6 · +0.2 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Iowa
Best efficiency game
40.8 vs Iowa
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 11/30 | vs Maryland | W 38-28 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | @ IowaSplash game | L 17-20 | 5 | 5 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | vs Penn State | L 10-28 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs MichiganSplash game | L 20-31 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | @ Indiana | L 13-38 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | vs UCLA | L 13-38 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 9/21 | @ USC | L 31-45 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Youngstown State | W 41-24 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Ru'Quan Buckley story
Ru'Quan Buckley built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Wyoming, MI wearing No. 88, spending time with Michigan State and Nebraska. The clearest part of Ru'Quan Buckley's career was his defensive production: 24 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 18 career games in the available record. That gives Ru'Quan Buckley's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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- 1
Nebraska
2021-2023
Opening stop
- 2
Michigan State
2024-2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
20212022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Nebraska | 0 | 4.2 | 1 | — |
| 2022 Regular Season | Nebraska | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Nebraska | 1 | 7.1 | 5.3 | 1 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Michigan State | 2 | 8.2 | 2.3 | 1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Michigan State | 5 | 13 | 4.9 | 3 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 12 Iowa
Week 13 · L 17-20 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
80.3 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 80.3 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 25 Michigan
Week 9 · L 20-31 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
2
Havoc Plays
76.1 takeover
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 76.1 takeover score.
#3
vs Louisiana Tech
Week 4 · W 28-14
1
Havoc Plays
64.4 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.4 takeover score.
#4
vs Purdue
Week 13 · W 24-17 · 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.
#5
vs Ohio State
Week 5 · L 7-38 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
33.3 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 33.3 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Michigan State
5 primary output · 13 efficiency · 4.9 usage
41.5
#2
2021 Regular Season · Nebraska
37.5
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Nebraska
30.3
1 primary · 7.1 efficiency · 5.3 usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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