Usage / Role
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Major defensive role
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Player Dossier
2020-2025Wake Forest
Karon Prunty
DB • 6'2" • 192 lbs • Portsmouth, VA, USA
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Karon Prunty shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.8 disruption score.
Impact Production
100
Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive back
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
90
Elite ceiling indicators
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Kansas
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Kansas • Wake Forest
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Virginia Tech
Player Story
Karon Prunty built his college career from 2020 through 2025 as a defensive back from Portsmouth, VA wearing No. 3, spending time with Kansas and Wake Forest. The clearest part of Karon Prunty's career was his...
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- Committed To
- Kansas
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2020
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2026
- Selection
- Round 5 · Pick 31
- Overall
- No. 171
- NFL Team
- New England Patriots
Karon Prunty, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Kansas. Karon Prunty shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.8 disruption score.
Quick Answers
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- Latest team and position
- Wake Forest · DB
- Career Tackles
- 66
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 25 games
- Best season
- 2020 Regular Season · Kansas
- Top game
- Virginia Tech
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · I.C. Norcom · Kansas
- High school pipeline
- I.C. Norcom · 5 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- NFL Draft
- 2026 · Round 5 · Pick 31 · New England Patriots
- Latest roster
- No. 3 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 40 tackles · DB 218th (top 23%) · ACC 124th (top 16%) · National 929th (top 15%)
Karon Prunty played DB for Kansas and Wake Forest. Across 2 tracked seasons, Karon Prunty recorded 66 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Wake Forest.
Recognition
Honors
- 20252025 All-ACC · official_conference_selectionthird
- 20202020 All-Big 12 · official_conference_selectionhonorable mention
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