Player Dossier

2023-2025

Kansas State

Kanijal Thomas

CB • 5'11" • 186 lbs • Del City, OK, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kanijal Thomas shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

5%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

16

Developing production for a corner

lowelite

Reliability

17

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

24

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Kansas State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Kansas State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State

Kanijal Thomas, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2023 Regular Season · Kansas State. Kanijal Thomas shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
6
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Kanijal Thomas quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas State · CB
Career Tackles
6
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 6 games
Best season
2023 Regular Season · Kansas State
Top game
Oklahoma State
High school pipeline
Del City · 10 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 29 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
5 tackles · CB 346th (top 73%) · Big 12 437th (top 60%) · National 3,665th (top 60%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonKansas State21-0--035.4
2024 Regular SeasonKansas State00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonKansas State45-0-1031.2

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Kansas State to Oklahoma StateP4 to P480.7Jan 5, 2026

Kanijal Thomas played CB for Kansas State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Kanijal Thomas recorded 6 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kansas State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season

Kansas State paired 0 primary output with 2.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 7.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

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

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State

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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2025 Regular Season · Kansas State

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

7.7

Usage

1.1

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Iowa State: 0. Baylor: 0. Oklahoma State: 1. 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. Iowa State: 1 by 4.2. Baylor: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma State: 1 by 14.2. Utah: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 1 · +1 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · -1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

Best efficiency game

14.2 vs Oklahoma State

Result
Sat 11/22@ UtahL 47-5111000
Sat 11/15@ Oklahoma StateW 14-611001
Sat 10/4@ BaylorL 34-3522000
Sat 8/23vs Iowa StateL 21-2411000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Kansas State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonKansas State02.10.5
2024 Regular SeasonKansas State00
2025 Regular SeasonKansas State17.71.11

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 121 Oklahoma State

Week 12 · W 14-6 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

40 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 71 Baylor

Week 6 · L 34-35 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

8.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8.6 takeover score.

#3

vs Troy

Week 2 · W 42-13

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 33 Iowa State

Week 1 · L 21-24 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 8 Utah

Week 13 · L 47-51 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2023 Regular Season · Kansas State

0 primary output · 2.1 efficiency · 0.5 usage

35.4

#2

2025 Regular Season · Kansas State

31.2

1 primary · 7.7 efficiency · 1.1 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Kansas State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games