Player Dossier

2021-2025

SMU

Blake Burris

DT • 6'5" • 308 lbs • Irving, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Blake Burris shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

23

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

19

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

30

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · SMU

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Texas Tech • SMU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Pittsburgh

Blake Burris, DT. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · SMU. Blake Burris shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
8
TFL
1
Passes defended
2

Quick Answers

Blake Burris quick answers

Latest team and position
SMU · DT
Career Tackles
8
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 7 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · SMU
Top game
Pittsburgh
Latest roster
No. 91 · Senior
2025 Tackles rank
2 tackles · DT 204th (top 88%) · ACC 556th (top 70%) · National 4,361st (top 71%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2021 Regular SeasonTexas Tech00-0--0-
2022 Regular SeasonTexas Tech00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonTexas Tech22-0-1041.2
2024 Regular SeasonSMU3410--034.1
2025 Regular SeasonSMU22-0-1041.4

Related Context

Blake Burris played DT for Texas Tech and SMU. Across 5 tracked seasons, Blake Burris recorded 8 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with SMU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

SMU paired 1 primary output with 9.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 8.9 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Texas Tech, SMU.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Pittsburgh

Win 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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2024 Regular Season · SMU

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

8.9

Usage

2

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Nevada: 0. Stanford: 0. Pittsburgh: 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. Nevada: 1 by 4.2. Stanford: 1 by 4.2. Pittsburgh: 2 by 18.3

Split Comparison

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

First Half0 · Games = 2 · -1 vs Second Half
Second Half1 · Games = 1 · +1 vs First Half

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Pittsburgh

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs Pittsburgh

Result
Sun 11/3vs PittsburghW 48-2521100
Sun 10/20@ StanfordW 40-1010000
Sun 8/25@ NevadaW 29-2410000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Texas Tech

    2021-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    SMU

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20212022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonTexas Tech0
2022 Regular SeasonTexas Tech00
2023 Regular SeasonTexas Tech19.20.71
2024 Regular SeasonSMU18.920
2025 Regular SeasonSMU19.20.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Pittsburgh

Week 10 · W 48-25 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

51.7 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.7 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 108 Missouri State

Week 3 · W 28-10

1

Havoc Plays

40.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.3 takeover score.

#3

vs Tarleton State

Week 3 · W 41-3

1

Havoc Plays

36.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#4

vs Oregon

Week 2 · L 30-38

0

Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

#5

@ Stanford

Week 8 · W 40-10 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · SMU

1 primary output · 9.2 efficiency · 0.8 usage

41.4

#2

2023 Regular Season · Texas Tech

41.2

1 primary · 9.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · SMU

34.1

1 primary · 8.9 efficiency · 2 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games