Usage / Role
2%
Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025Virginia
Mekhi Buchanan
DE • 6'4" • 245 lbs • Acworth, GA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Mekhi Buchanan shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10 disruption score.
Impact Production
30
Developing production for an edge defender
lowelite
Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
29
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Virginia
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Virginia
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Maryland
Player Story
Mekhi Buchanan built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive end from Acworth, GA wearing No. 8, spending time with Virginia. The clearest part of Mekhi Buchanan's career was his defensive...
Read the storyMekhi Buchanan, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Virginia. Mekhi Buchanan shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 20
- TFL
- 1.5
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Mekhi Buchanan quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Virginia · DE
- Career Tackles
- 20
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 10 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Virginia
- Top game
- Maryland
- High school pipeline
- Allatoona · 10 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 8 · Junior
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Virginia | 9 | 20 | 1.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 35.5 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Virginia | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Regular Season | Virginia | 1 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 44.2 |
Related Context
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Mekhi Buchanan played DE for Virginia. Across 3 tracked seasons, Mekhi Buchanan recorded 20 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Virginia.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Virginia paired 1 primary output with 10 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 10 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: Stanford
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Virginia
Games
1
Havoc Plays / G
1
Efficiency
10
Usage
0
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Stanford
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All Games1 · Games = 1
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
1 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Stanford
Best efficiency game
10 vs Stanford
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 9/20 | vs Stanford | W 48-20 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
Player Story
Mekhi Buchanan story
Mekhi Buchanan built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive end from Acworth, GA wearing No. 8, spending time with Virginia. The clearest part of Mekhi Buchanan's career was his defensive production: 20 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, and 1 pass defended across 10 career games in the available record. That gives Mekhi Buchanan'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.
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Virginia
2023-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Virginia | 1.5 | 10.9 | 2.9 | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Virginia | 0 | — | — | -1.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Virginia | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Maryland
Week 3 · L 14-42
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1
Havoc Plays
75.3 takeover
1 disruption/tackle impact with 75.3 takeover score.
#2
vs Georgia Tech
Week 10 · L 17-45 · Conference game
0.5
Havoc Plays
37.8 takeover
Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 37.8 takeover score.
#3
vs No. 112 Stanford
Week 4 · W 48-20 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
36.7 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.
#4
vs William & Mary
Week 6 · W 27-13
0
Havoc Plays
10 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.
#5
@ Miami
Week 9 · L 26-29 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
7.2 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Virginia
1 primary output · 10 efficiency · 0 usage
44.2
#2
2023 Regular Season · Virginia
35.5
1.5 primary · 10.9 efficiency · 2.9 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Virginia
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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