Player Dossier

2023-2025

Buffalo

Eddie Pleasant III

CB • 6'0" • 185 lbs • Tampa, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Eddie Pleasant III shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

7

Developing production for a corner

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Buffalo

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Michigan State • Buffalo
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Akron

Player Story

Eddie Pleasant III built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a cornerback from Tampa, FL wearing No. 21, spending time with Buffalo and Michigan State. The clearest part of Eddie Pleasant III's career was...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8678

Carrollwood Day · Tampa, FL

Committed To
Michigan State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Eddie Pleasant III, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Buffalo. Eddie Pleasant III shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
12
Passes defended
5

Quick Answers

Eddie Pleasant III quick answers

Latest team and position
Buffalo · CB
Career Tackles
12
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 7 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Buffalo
Top game
Akron
Recruit profile
3-star · Carrollwood Day · Michigan State
High school pipeline
Carrollwood Day · 22 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 21 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
1 tackles · CB 431st (top 91%) · Mid-American 489th (top 85%) · National 5,258th (top 85%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonMichigan State00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonBuffalo611-0-5047.2
2025 Regular SeasonBuffalo11-0--037.5

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Buffalo to MarshallG5/FCS to G5/FCS21.2Jan 11, 2026
2024Michigan State to BuffaloP4 to G5/FCS80Apr 17, 2024

Eddie Pleasant III played CB for Michigan State and Buffalo. Across 3 tracked seasons, Eddie Pleasant III recorded 12 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Buffalo.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Buffalo paired 5 primary output with 16 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 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 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Michigan State, Buffalo.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: St. Francis (PA)

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Buffalo

Games

1

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

1

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

St. Francis (PA)

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All Games0 · Games = 1

Game Log

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1 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

St. Francis (PA)

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs St. Francis (PA)

Result
Sat 9/6vs St. Francis (PA)W 45-611000

Player Story

Eddie Pleasant III story

Eddie Pleasant III built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a cornerback from Tampa, FL wearing No. 21, spending time with Buffalo and Michigan State. The clearest part of Eddie Pleasant III's career was his defensive production: 12 tackles and 5 passes defended across 7 career games in the available record. That gives Eddie Pleasant III's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Michigan State

    2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Buffalo

    2024-2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonMichigan State0
2024 Regular SeasonBuffalo5161.45
2025 Regular SeasonBuffalo04.21-5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Akron

Week 10 · W 41-30 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

51.1 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 51.1 takeover score.

#2

vs Lafayette

Week 1 · W 30-13

1

Havoc Plays

34.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 34.7 takeover score.

#3

@ UConn

Week 5 · L 3-47

1

Havoc Plays

23.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 23.3 takeover score.

#4

@ Ohio

Week 9 · L 16-47 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

20 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 20 takeover score.

#5

@ Missouri

Week 2 · L 0-38

0

Havoc Plays

5.8 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.8 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Buffalo

5 primary output · 16 efficiency · 1.4 usage

47.2

#2

2025 Regular Season · Buffalo

37.5

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Michigan State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games