Player Dossier

2023-2025

Miami

Kamal Bonner

LB • 6'2" • 195 lbs • Moultrie, GA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kamal Bonner shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · NC State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
NC State • Miami
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Duke

Player Story

Kamal Bonner built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Moultrie, GA wearing No. 32, spending time with Miami and NC State. The clearest part of Kamal Bonner's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8636

Colquitt County · Moultrie, GA

Committed To
NC State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Kamal Bonner, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · NC State. Kamal Bonner shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
61
TFL
7
Sacks
1
QB hurries
6

Quick Answers

Kamal Bonner quick answers

Latest team and position
Miami · LB
Career Tackles
61
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 16 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · NC State
Top game
Duke
Recruit profile
3-star · Colquitt County · NC State
High school pipeline
Colquitt County · 43 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 32 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
2 tackles · LB 1,120th (top 88%) · ACC 597th (top 75%) · National 4,613th (top 75%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonNC State33-0--037.1
2024 PostseasonNC State1160.502-064.8
2024 Regular SeasonNC State11506.514-064.8
2025 Regular SeasonMiami22-0--037.5

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2025NC State to MiamiP4 to P481.2Apr 21, 2025

Kamal Bonner played LB for NC State and Miami. Across 3 tracked seasons, Kamal Bonner recorded 61 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with NC State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

NC State paired 14 primary output with 33.9 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 NC State, Miami.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: NC State

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 · Miami

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

1

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

NC State

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. South Florida: 0. NC State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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First Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

NC State

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs NC State

Result
Sat 11/15vs NC StateW 41-710000
Sat 9/13vs South FloridaW 49-1210000

Player Story

Kamal Bonner story

Kamal Bonner built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a linebacker from Moultrie, GA wearing No. 32, spending time with Miami and NC State. The clearest part of Kamal Bonner's career was his defensive production: 61 tackles, 7 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 16 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with NC State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Kamal Bonner's production has multiple signals. With 16 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Miami and NC State.

The arc is straightforward: Kamal Bonner moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    NC State

    2023-2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Miami

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonNC State04.20.9
2024 PostseasonNC State1433.99.714
2024 Regular SeasonNC State1433.99.70
2025 Regular SeasonMiami04.21-14

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Duke

Week 11 · L 19-29 · Conference game

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

87.8 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 87.8 takeover score.

#2

vs Stanford

Week 10 · W 59-28 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

78.3 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 78.3 takeover score.

#3

vs East Carolina

Week 1 · L 21-26 · Postseason

2.5

Havoc Plays

77.8 takeover

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 77.8 takeover score.

#4

vs Syracuse

Week 7 · L 17-24 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

69.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 69.7 takeover score.

#5

@ North Carolina

Week 14 · W 35-30 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

56.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · NC State

14 primary output · 33.9 efficiency · 9.7 usage

64.8

#2

2024 Regular Season · NC State

64.8

14 primary · 33.9 efficiency · 9.7 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Miami

37.5

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

4

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games