Player Dossier

2022-2025

Kansas

Mason Ellis

S • 6'2" • 200 lbs • Mulvane, KS, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Mason Ellis shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

13%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

28

Developing production for a safety

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Reliability

22

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

37

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kansas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Kansas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Fresno State

Player Story

Mason Ellis built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a safety from Mulvane, KS wearing No. 23, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Mason Ellis' career was his defensive production: 25 tackles...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8044

Mulvane · Mulvane, KS

Committed To
Kansas
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Mason Ellis, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kansas. Mason Ellis shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
25
TFL
1

Quick Answers

Mason Ellis quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas · S
Career Tackles
25
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 9 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Kansas
Top game
Fresno State
Recruit profile
3-star · Mulvane · Kansas
High school pipeline
Mulvane · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 23 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
18 tackles · S 268th (top 48%) · Big 12 261st (top 36%) · National 2,220th (top 36%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonKansas00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonKansas00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonKansas37-0--042.3
2025 Regular SeasonKansas61810--035.9

Related Context

Mason Ellis played S for Kansas. Across 4 tracked seasons, Mason Ellis recorded 25 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kansas.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Kansas paired 0 primary output with 9.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Fresno State

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Kansas

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

14.2

Usage

2.9

Consistency

5.6

Best Game by takeover score

Fresno State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Wagner: 0. Fresno State: 1. Missouri: 0. Kansas State: 0. Oklahoma State: 0. Utah: 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. Wagner: 3 by 12.5. Fresno State: 2 by 18.3. Missouri: 8 by 33.3. Kansas State: 1 by 4.2. Oklahoma State: 1 by 4.2. Utah: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

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

6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Fresno State

Best efficiency game

33.3 vs Missouri

Result
Fri 11/28vs UtahL 21-3133000
Sat 11/1vs Oklahoma StateW 38-2111000
Sat 10/25vs Kansas StateL 17-4211000
Sat 9/6@ MissouriL 31-4283000
Fri 8/29vs WagnerW 46-732000
Sat 8/23vs Fresno StateW 31-722100

Player Story

Mason Ellis story

Mason Ellis built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a safety from Mulvane, KS wearing No. 23, spending time with Kansas. The clearest part of Mason Ellis' career was his defensive production: 25 tackles and 1 tackle for loss across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Mason Ellis' career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Kansas

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2022202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonKansas0
2023 Regular SeasonKansas00
2024 Regular SeasonKansas09.72.10
2025 Regular SeasonKansas114.22.91

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 66 Fresno State

Week 1 · W 31-7

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

52.8 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.8 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 21 Missouri

Week 2 · L 31-42 · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

21.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 21.4 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 8 Utah

Week 14 · L 21-31 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

13.9 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 13.9 takeover score.

#4

vs Wagner

Week 1 · W 46-7

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Havoc Plays

13.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 13.3 takeover score.

#5

@ Illinois

Week 2 · L 17-23

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Havoc Plays

10.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Kansas

0 primary output · 9.7 efficiency · 2.1 usage

42.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Kansas

35.9

1 primary · 14.2 efficiency · 2.9 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Kansas

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games