Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2021-2025Texas Tech
Dontae Balfour
DB • 6'1" • 185 lbs • Starke, FL, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Dontae Balfour shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.1 disruption score.
Impact Production
33
Developing production for a defensive back
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Reliability
33
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
44
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Charlotte
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 3
- Unique Seasons
- 5
- Program Path
- North Carolina • Charlotte • Texas Tech
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Memphis
Player Story
Dontae Balfour built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive back from Starke, FL wearing No. 20, spending time with Charlotte, North Carolina, and Texas Tech. The clearest part of Dontae Balfour's...
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- Committed To
- North Carolina
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2021
Dontae Balfour, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Charlotte. Dontae Balfour shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.1 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 131
- TFL
- 4
- Passes defended
- 24
Quick Answers
Dontae Balfour quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Texas Tech · DB
- Career Tackles
- 131
- Tracked sample
- 5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 33 games
- Best season
- 2024 Regular Season · Charlotte
- Top game
- Memphis
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Bradford · North Carolina
- High school pipeline
- Bradford · 13 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 20 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 23 tackles · DB 397th (top 41%) · Big 12 210th (top 29%) · National 1,839th (top 30%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | North Carolina | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2022 Regular Season | North Carolina | 1 | 6 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 55 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Charlotte | 11 | 54 | 1 | 0 | - | 10 | 0 | 43.6 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Charlotte | 11 | 48 | 2.5 | 0 | - | 9 | 0 | 55.9 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 10 | 23 | 0.5 | 0 | - | 5 | 0 | 29.8 |
Related Context
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Dontae Balfour played DB for North Carolina, Charlotte, and Texas Tech. Across 5 tracked seasons, Dontae Balfour recorded 131 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Charlotte.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season
Charlotte paired 13.5 primary output with 30.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 15.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 3 team stops, with role shifts visible across North Carolina, Charlotte, Texas Tech.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Oregon State
Win with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Texas Tech
Games
10
Havoc Plays / G
0.6
Efficiency
15.1
Usage
2
Consistency
47
Best Game by takeover score
Oregon State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Kent State: 0. Oregon State: 1.5. Utah: 1. Houston: 1. Kansas: 0. Arizona State: 0. Oklahoma State: 1. BYU: 1. UCF: 0. West Virginia: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Kent State: 2 by 8.3. Oregon State: 3 by 27.5. Utah: 5 by 30.8. Houston: 2 by 18.3. Kansas: 2 by 8.3. Arizona State: 3 by 12.5. Oklahoma State: 2 by 18.3. BYU: 0 by 10. UCF: 1 by 4.2. West Virginia: 3 by 12.5
Split Comparison
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Wins0.6 · Games = 9 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.6 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
10 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Oregon State
Best efficiency game
30.8 vs Utah
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 11/29 | @ West Virginia | W 49-0 | 3 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | vs UCF | W 48-9 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | vs BYU | W 29-7 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | vs Oklahoma State | W 42-0 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 10/18 | @ Arizona State | L 22-26 | 3 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | vs Kansas | W 42-17 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/4 | @ Houston | W 35-11 | 2 | 2 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | @ Utah | W 34-10 | 5 | 3 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Oregon State | W 45-14 | 3 | 2 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 9/6 | vs Kent State | W 62-14 | 2 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Dontae Balfour story
Dontae Balfour built his college career from 2021 through 2025 as a defensive back from Starke, FL wearing No. 20, spending time with Charlotte, North Carolina, and Texas Tech. The clearest part of Dontae Balfour's career was his defensive production: 131 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, 3 interceptions, and 24 passes defended across 33 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with Charlotte. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.
Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Dontae Balfour's production has multiple signals. With 33 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Charlotte, North Carolina, and Texas Tech.
The arc is straightforward: Dontae Balfour moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
North Carolina
2021-2022
Opening stop
- 2
Charlotte
2023-2024
Peak year stop
- 3
Texas Tech
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
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| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | North Carolina | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2022 Regular Season | North Carolina | 0 | 25 | 4.8 | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Charlotte | 12 | 31.4 | 4.7 | 12 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Charlotte | 13.5 | 30.5 | 5.6 | 1.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Texas Tech | 5.5 | 15.1 | 2 | -8 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Memphis
Week 11 · L 38-44 · Conference game
Loss with 5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
5
Havoc Plays
91.1 takeover
5 disruption/tackle impact with 91.1 takeover score.
#2
@ Rice
Week 5 · W 21-20 · Conference game
3.5
Havoc Plays
88.1 takeover
Win with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 88.1 takeover score.
#3
vs James Madison
Week 1 · L 7-30
2.5
Havoc Plays
66.3 takeover
Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 66.3 takeover score.
#4
@ Tulsa
Week 10 · W 33-26 · Conference game
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Havoc Plays
63.6 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 63.6 takeover score.
#5
vs UAB
Week 14 · W 29-27 · Conference game
2
Havoc Plays
55.7 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 55.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Regular Season · Charlotte
13.5 primary output · 30.5 efficiency · 5.6 usage
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#2
2022 Regular Season · North Carolina
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0 primary · 25 efficiency · 4.8 usage
#3
2023 Regular Season · Charlotte
43.6
12 primary · 31.4 efficiency · 4.7 usage
Milestones
4
Impact games
8
Splash games
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10+ tackle games
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