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

10%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

31

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

31

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

39

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

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.5 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: Cincinnati

Loss with 1 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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2022 Regular Season · Temple

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

14.5

Usage

3

Consistency

6.7

Best Game by takeover score

Cincinnati

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Rutgers: 0. Memphis: 0. UCF: 0. Houston: 0. Cincinnati: 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. Rutgers: 6 by 25. Memphis: 1 by 4.2. UCF: 1 by 4.2. Houston: 4 by 16.7. Cincinnati: 3 by 22.5

Split Comparison

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

First Half0 · Games = 3 · -0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs First Half

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Cincinnati

Best efficiency game

25 vs Rutgers

Result
Sat 11/19vs CincinnatiL 3-23310.500.500
Sat 11/12@ HoustonL 36-4342000
Thu 10/13@ UCFL 13-7011000
Sat 10/1@ MemphisL 3-2410000
Sat 9/17vs RutgersL 14-1660000

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