Player Dossier

2021-2025

Middle Tennessee

Brandon Buckner

LB • 6'0" • 248 lbs • Charlotte, NC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Brandon Buckner shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 26 disruption score.

Usage / Role

13%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

45

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

48

Useful contributor with volatile peaks

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Star Power

53

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Oregon • Middle Tennessee
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Western Kentucky

Player Story

Brandon Buckner built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from Charlotte, NC wearing No. 11, spending time with Middle Tennessee and Oregon. The clearest part of Brandon Buckner's career was his...

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Brandon Buckner, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee. Brandon Buckner shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 26 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
83
TFL
12.5
Sacks
8.5
QB hurries
7
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Brandon Buckner quick answers

Latest team and position
Middle Tennessee · LB
Career Tackles
83
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 30 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee
Top game
Western Kentucky
High school pipeline
Del City · 10 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 11 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
35 tackles · LB 420th (top 33%) · Conference USA 96th (top 18%) · National 1,103rd (top 18%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonOregon3510--015.2
2022 Regular SeasonOregon00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee561112034.2
2024 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee1137435-061.2
2025 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee11356.54.512055.6

Related Context

Brandon Buckner played LB for Oregon and Middle Tennessee. Across 5 tracked seasons, Brandon Buckner recorded 83 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Middle Tennessee.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Middle Tennessee paired 12 primary output with 24.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2023 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 15 efficiency.

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Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from 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 Oregon, Middle Tennessee.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Murray State

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2023 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

15

Usage

3.5

Consistency

56.9

Best Game by takeover score

Murray State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Alabama: 0. Murray State: 2. Louisiana Tech: 2. Liberty: 0. Florida International: 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. Alabama: 1 by 4.2. Murray State: 1 by 24.2. Louisiana Tech: 1 by 24.2. Liberty: 2 by 8.3. Florida International: 1 by 14.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.7 · Games = 3 · +1.7 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -1.7 vs Wins

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Murray State

Best efficiency game

24.2 vs Louisiana Tech

Result
Sat 11/11vs Florida InternationalW 40-611001
Tue 10/17@ LibertyL 35-4221000
Tue 10/10vs Louisiana TechSplash gameW 31-2310001
Sat 9/16vs Murray StateSplash gameW 35-1411110
Sat 9/2@ AlabamaL 7-5610000

Player Story

Brandon Buckner story

Brandon Buckner built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a linebacker from Charlotte, NC wearing No. 11, spending time with Middle Tennessee and Oregon. The clearest part of Brandon Buckner's career was his defensive production: 83 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss, 8.5 sacks, and 4 passes defended across 30 career games in the available record. That gives Brandon Buckner's 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

    Oregon

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Middle Tennessee

    2023-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonOregon110.33.9
2022 Regular SeasonOregon0-1
2023 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee5153.55
2024 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee1224.99.97
2025 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee14268.22

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 69 Western Kentucky

Week 12 · L 26-42 · Conference game

Loss with backfield disruption leading the way.

4.5

Havoc Plays

91.4 takeover

4.5 disruption/tackle impact with 91.4 takeover score.

#2

vs Tennessee Tech

Week 1 · W 32-25

4

Havoc Plays

81.4 takeover

Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 81.4 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 116 Nevada

Week 3 · W 14-13

3

Havoc Plays

72.5 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 72.5 takeover score.

#4

vs Murray State

Week 3 · W 35-14

2

Havoc Plays

68.3 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 68.3 takeover score.

#5

vs Stony Brook

Week 3 · W 48-7

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Havoc Plays

66.9 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 66.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

12 primary output · 24.9 efficiency · 9.9 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

55.6

14 primary · 26 efficiency · 8.2 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

34.2

5 primary · 15 efficiency · 3.5 usage

Milestones

7

Impact games

10

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games