Player Dossier

2024-2025

Mississippi State

Stonka Burnside

S • 6'0" • 200 lbs • Starkville, MS, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Stonka Burnside shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 2.1 disruption score.

Usage / Role

0%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

3

Developing production for a safety

lowelite

Reliability

0

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

18

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Mississippi State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Tennessee
4★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.9177

Starkville · Starkville, MS

Committed To
Mississippi State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Stonka Burnside, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State. Stonka Burnside shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 2.1 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
5

Quick Answers

Stonka Burnside quick answers

Latest team and position
Mississippi State · S
Career Tackles
5
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State
Top game
Tennessee
Recruit profile
4-star · Starkville · Mississippi State
High school pipeline
Starkville · 23 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 5 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
1 tackles · S 554th (top 99%) · SEC 734th (top 97%) · National 6,043rd (top 98%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonMississippi State34-0--036.9
2025 Regular SeasonMississippi State21-0--034.7

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Mississippi State to MemphisP4 to G5/FCS75.2Jan 6, 2026

Stonka Burnside played S for Mississippi State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Stonka Burnside recorded 6 rushing yards, -6 receiving yards, and 5 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Mississippi State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Mississippi State paired 0 primary output with 5.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 2.1 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arizona State

Win with 0 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 · Mississippi State

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

2.1

Usage

0.3

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Arizona State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Southern Miss: 0. Arizona State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

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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

Arizona State

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs Arizona State

Result
Sat 9/6vs Arizona StateW 24-2010000
Sat 8/30@ Southern MissW 34-17

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Mississippi State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonMississippi State05.50.6
2025 Regular SeasonMississippi State02.10.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Tennessee

Week 11 · L 14-33 · Conference game

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

5.5 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.5 takeover score.

#2

vs Missouri

Week 13 · L 20-39 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

5.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.3 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 60 Arizona State

Week 2 · W 24-20

0

Havoc Plays

2.8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 2.8 takeover score.

#4

vs Eastern Kentucky

Week 1 · W 56-7

0

Havoc Plays

0 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 0 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 94 Southern Miss

Week 1 · W 34-17

0

Havoc Plays

0 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 0 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Mississippi State

0 primary output · 5.5 efficiency · 0.6 usage

36.9

#2

2025 Regular Season · Mississippi State

34.7

0 primary · 2.1 efficiency · 0.3 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games