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 Score

3

Efficiency

14.5

Consistency

6.7

Season Value

7.6

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season · UAlbany

212225

Snapshot

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

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

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

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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Active game

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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.

Losses0.2 · Games = 5
First Half0 · Games = 3 · -0.5 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.5 vs First Half
All Games0.2 · Games = 5

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 Progression

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

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Cincinnati

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Primary metric

1 disruption/tackle impact with 42.8 takeover score.

#2

Iowa

0

Primary metric

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.4 takeover score.

#3

Rutgers

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.8 takeover score.

#4

Houston

0

Primary metric

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

#5

Unknown

0

Primary metric

Game with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2025 Regular Season · UAlbany

0 primary output · 20.8 efficiency · usage

60.4

#2

2021 Regular Season · Temple

35.8

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1.1 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Temple

7.6

1 primary · 14.5 efficiency · 3 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8159

Central · Philadelphia, PA

Committed To
Temple
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Career Facts

2

Career teams

3

Seasons tracked

18

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 3 tracked seasons, 9 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.

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Recruiting profile

3-star recruit

Position
DL
Teams played for
2
Seasons tracked
3
Career tackles
18