Player Dossier

2023-2025

Kansas State

Donovan McIntosh

CB • 6'3" • 194 lbs • Saint Louis, MO, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Donovan McIntosh shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

29%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

43

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

37

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

60

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 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: Iowa State

Player Story

Donovan McIntosh built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a cornerback from Saint Louis, MO wearing No. 9, spending time with Kansas State. The clearest part of Donovan McIntosh's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8861

St. Mary's · St. Louis, MO

Committed To
Kansas State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Donovan McIntosh, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Kansas State. Donovan McIntosh shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
36
Passes defended
5

Quick Answers

Donovan McIntosh quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas State · CB
Career Tackles
36
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 13 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Kansas State
Top game
Iowa State
Recruit profile
3-star · St. Mary's · Kansas State
High school pipeline
St. Mary's · 2 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 9 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
33 tackles · CB 92nd (top 20%) · Big 12 134th (top 19%) · National 1,220th (top 20%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonKansas State00-0--0-
2024 PostseasonKansas State31-0-1011.3
2024 Regular SeasonKansas State32-0--011.3
2025 Regular SeasonKansas State1033-0-4039.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Kansas State to UnlistedP4 to Unlisted78.9Dec 17, 2025

Donovan McIntosh played CB for Kansas State. Across 3 tracked seasons, Donovan McIntosh recorded 36 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Kansas State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Kansas State paired 5 primary output with 18.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 18.8 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: Iowa State

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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2025 Regular Season · Kansas State

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

18.8

Usage

3.2

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Iowa State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. North Dakota: 0. Iowa State: 2. UCF: 0. Baylor: 1. TCU: 0. Kansas: 0. Texas Tech: 1. Oklahoma State: 0. Utah: 0. Colorado: 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. North Dakota: 3 by 12.5. Iowa State: 8 by 53.3. UCF: 2 by 8.3. Baylor: 4 by 26.7. TCU: 5 by 20.8. Kansas: 2 by 8.3. Texas Tech: 3 by 22.5. Oklahoma State: 1 by 4.2. Utah: 4 by 16.7. Colorado: 1 by 14.2

Split Comparison

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Wins0.2 · Games = 6 · -0.8 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 4 · +0.8 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

Iowa State

Best efficiency game

53.3 vs Iowa State

Result
Sat 11/29vs ColoradoW 24-14110010
Sat 11/22@ UtahL 47-5144000
Sat 11/15@ Oklahoma StateW 14-611000
Sat 11/1vs Texas TechL 20-4332001
Sat 10/25@ KansasW 42-1721000
Sat 10/11vs TCUW 41-2853000
Sat 10/4@ BaylorL 34-3544001
Sat 9/27vs UCFW 34-2022000
Sat 8/30vs North DakotaW 38-3533000
Sat 8/23vs Iowa StateSplash gameL 21-2485002

Player Story

Donovan McIntosh story

Donovan McIntosh built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a cornerback from Saint Louis, MO wearing No. 9, spending time with Kansas State. The clearest part of Donovan McIntosh's career was his defensive production: 36 tackles, 1 interception, and 5 passes defended across 13 career games in the available record. That gives Donovan McIntosh's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Kansas State

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonKansas State0
2024 PostseasonKansas State17.50.81
2024 Regular SeasonKansas State17.50.80
2025 Regular SeasonKansas State518.83.24

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 33 Iowa State

Week 1 · L 21-24 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

68 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 68 takeover score.

#2

vs Rutgers

Week 1 · W 44-41 · Postseason

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Havoc Plays

40.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.6 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 71 Baylor

Week 6 · L 34-35 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

37.2 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 37.2 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 96 Colorado

Week 14 · W 24-14 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

36.1 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.1 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 3 Texas Tech

Week 10 · L 20-43 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

30.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 30.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Kansas State

5 primary output · 18.8 efficiency · 3.2 usage

39.7

#2

2024 Postseason · Kansas State

11.3

1 primary · 7.5 efficiency · 0.8 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Kansas State

11.3

1 primary · 7.5 efficiency · 0.8 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games