Player Dossier

2020-2025

South Carolina

Buddy Mack III

DB • 6'0" • 214 lbs • Greer, SC, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Buddy Mack III shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

10

Developing production for a defensive back

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Reliability

4

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

20

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
Pittsburgh • South Carolina
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: New Hampshire

Buddy Mack III, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · Pittsburgh. Buddy Mack III shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 6.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
24

Quick Answers

Buddy Mack III quick answers

Latest team and position
South Carolina · DB
Career Tackles
24
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 17 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · Pittsburgh
Top game
New Hampshire
High school pipeline
Lafayette Christian Academy · 8 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 11 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
3 tackles · DB 772nd (top 80%) · SEC 481st (top 64%) · National 4,034th (top 65%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2020 Regular SeasonPittsburgh47-0--040.1
2021 Regular SeasonPittsburgh710-0--038.6
2022 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00-0--0-
2024 PostseasonSouth Carolina41-0--036.9
2024 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina43-0--036.9
2025 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina23-0--039

Related Context

Buddy Mack III played DB for Pittsburgh and South Carolina. Across 6 tracked seasons, Buddy Mack III recorded 24 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with Pittsburgh.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

Pittsburgh paired 0 primary output with 7.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Pittsburgh, South Carolina.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: New Hampshire

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

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2021 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

6

Usage

1.2

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

New Hampshire

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. New Hampshire: 0. Georgia Tech: 0. Virginia Tech: 0. Clemson: 0. Duke: 0. Syracuse: 0. Wake Forest: 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.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. New Hampshire: 4 by 16.7. Georgia Tech: 1 by 4.2. Virginia Tech: 1 by 4.2. Clemson: 1 by 4.2. Duke: 1 by 4.2. Syracuse: 1 by 4.2. Wake Forest: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

First Half0 · Games = 4 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

New Hampshire

Best efficiency game

16.7 vs New Hampshire

Result
Sun 12/5@ Wake ForestW 45-2111000
Sun 11/28@ SyracuseW 31-1411000
Sat 11/6@ DukeW 54-2910000
Sat 10/23vs ClemsonW 27-1710000
Sat 10/16@ Virginia TechW 28-710000
Sat 10/2@ Georgia TechW 52-2110000
Sat 9/25vs New HampshireW 77-742000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Pittsburgh

    2020-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    South Carolina

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2020202120222023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2020 Regular SeasonPittsburgh07.31.6
2021 Regular SeasonPittsburgh061.20
2022 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00
2023 Regular SeasonPittsburgh00
2024 PostseasonSouth Carolina04.20.80
2024 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina04.20.80
2025 Regular SeasonSouth Carolina06.31.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs New Hampshire

Week 4 · W 77-7

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

15.8 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 15.8 takeover score.

#2

vs Virginia Tech

Week 12 · W 47-14 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10.8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.8 takeover score.

#3

vs Austin Peay

Week 2 · W 55-0

0

Havoc Plays

8.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.3 takeover score.

#4

vs South Carolina State

Week 2 · W 38-10

0

Havoc Plays

7.8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.8 takeover score.

#5

@ Kentucky

Week 2 · W 31-6 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

0 primary output · 7.3 efficiency · 1.6 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · South Carolina

39

0 primary · 6.3 efficiency · 1.3 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · Pittsburgh

38.6

0 primary · 6 efficiency · 1.2 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games