Player Dossier

2021-2025

Massachusetts

Ryan Barnes

CB • 6'2" • 185 lbs • Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Ryan Barnes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

24

Developing production for a corner

lowelite

Reliability

13

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

28

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Massachusetts

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Notre Dame • Massachusetts
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Central Connecticut

Player Story

Ryan Barnes built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a cornerback from Gaithersburg, MD wearing No. 14, spending time with Massachusetts and Notre Dame. The clearest part of Ryan Barnes' career was his...

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3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8763

Quince Orchard · Gaithersburg, MD

Committed To
Notre Dame
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Ryan Barnes, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Massachusetts. Ryan Barnes shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
14

Quick Answers

Ryan Barnes quick answers

Latest team and position
Massachusetts · CB
Career Tackles
14
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 7 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Massachusetts
Top game
Central Connecticut
Recruit profile
3-star · Quince Orchard · Notre Dame
High school pipeline
Quince Orchard · 20 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 14 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
7 tackles · CB 312th (top 66%) · Mid-American 310th (top 54%) · National 3,355th (top 55%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonNotre Dame00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonNotre Dame00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonNotre Dame00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonMassachusetts57-0--034.3
2025 Regular SeasonMassachusetts27-0--044.9

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2024Notre Dame to MassachusettsG5/FCS to G5/FCS80Dec 4, 2023

Ryan Barnes played CB for Notre Dame and Massachusetts. Across 5 tracked seasons, Ryan Barnes recorded 14 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Massachusetts.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Massachusetts paired 0 primary output with 14.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.6 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 Notre Dame, Massachusetts.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Kent State

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Massachusetts

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

14.6

Usage

2.4

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Kent State

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Kent State: 0. Buffalo: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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First Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Kent State

Best efficiency game

16.7 vs Kent State

Result
Sat 10/18vs BuffaloL 21-2831000
Sat 10/11@ Kent StateL 6-4244000

Player Story

Ryan Barnes story

Ryan Barnes built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a cornerback from Gaithersburg, MD wearing No. 14, spending time with Massachusetts and Notre Dame. The clearest part of Ryan Barnes' career was his defensive production: 14 tackles and 1 interception across 7 career games in the available record. That gives Ryan Barnes' 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

    Notre Dame

    2021-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Massachusetts

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonNotre Dame0
2022 Regular SeasonNotre Dame00
2023 Regular SeasonNotre Dame00
2024 Regular SeasonMassachusetts17.82.71
2025 Regular SeasonMassachusetts014.62.4-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Central Connecticut

Week 4 · W 35-31

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

64.2 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.2 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 130 Kent State

Week 7 · L 6-42 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

13.9 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 13.9 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 95 Buffalo

Week 8 · L 21-28 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

9.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.2 takeover score.

#4

@ Northern Illinois

Week 6 · L 20-34

0

Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

#5

vs Missouri

Week 7 · L 3-45

0

Havoc Plays

6.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Massachusetts

0 primary output · 14.6 efficiency · 2.4 usage

44.9

#2

2024 Regular Season · Massachusetts

34.3

1 primary · 7.8 efficiency · 2.7 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · Notre Dame

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games