Player Dossier

2021-2025

UAlbany

Balansama Kamara

DL • 6'3" • 257 lbs • Philadelphia, PA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Balansama Kamara shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

10

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UAlbany

212225

Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Temple • UAlbany
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Cincinnati

Balansama Kamara, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UAlbany. Balansama Kamara shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
18
TFL
0.5
Sacks
0.5

Quick Answers

Balansama Kamara quick answers

Latest team and position
UAlbany · DL
Career Tackles
18
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 9 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · UAlbany
Top game
Cincinnati
High school pipeline
Central · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 0 · Junior

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonTemple23-0--038.5
2022 Regular SeasonTemple5150.50.5--036.5
2025 Regular SeasonUAlbany10-0--060.4

Related Context

Balansama Kamara played DL for Temple and UAlbany. Across 3 tracked seasons, Balansama Kamara recorded 18 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Temple.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

UAlbany paired 0 primary output with 20.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 6.3 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 Temple, UAlbany.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Wagner

Win with 0 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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2021 Regular Season · Temple

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

6.3

Usage

1.1

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Wagner

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Game-by-Game Trend

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wagner: 0. South Florida: 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.

Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Wagner

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Wagner

Result
Sat 10/23@ South FloridaL 14-3410000
Sat 9/25vs WagnerW 41-722000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Temple

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    UAlbany

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202120222025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonTemple06.31.1
2022 Regular SeasonTemple114.531
2025 Regular SeasonUAlbany020.8-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Cincinnati

Week 12 · L 3-23 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

56.7 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.7 takeover score.

#2

vs Rutgers

Week 3 · L 14-16

0

Havoc Plays

20.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 20.3 takeover score.

#3

@ Houston

Week 11 · L 36-43 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

15 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 15 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 12 Iowa

Week 1 · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

10.4 takeover

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.4 takeover score.

#5

vs Wagner

Week 4 · W 41-7

0

Havoc Plays

7.5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · UAlbany

0 primary output · 20.8 efficiency · usage

60.4

#2

2021 Regular Season · Temple

38.5

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1.1 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Temple

36.5

1 primary · 14.5 efficiency · 3 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games