Player Dossier

2024-2025

Michigan State

Kekai Burnett

DL • 6'2" • 255 lbs • Honolulu, HI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kekai Burnett shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

14

Developing production for a defensive lineman

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

21

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Michigan State

2425

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Michigan State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Indiana
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8567

Punahou · Honolulu, HI

Committed To
Michigan State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Kekai Burnett, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Michigan State. Kekai Burnett shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
6

Quick Answers

Kekai Burnett quick answers

Latest team and position
Michigan State · DL
Career Tackles
6
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 3 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Michigan State
Top game
Indiana
Recruit profile
3-star · Punahou · Michigan State
High school pipeline
Punahou · 52 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 51 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
6 tackles · DL 745th (top 69%) · Big Ten 436th (top 56%) · National 3,484th (top 57%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonMichigan State00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonMichigan State36-0--040.3

Related Context

Kekai Burnett played DL for Michigan State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Kekai Burnett recorded 6 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Michigan State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Michigan State paired 0 primary output with 8.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 8.3 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: Indiana

Loss 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 · Michigan State

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

8.3

Usage

1.5

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Indiana

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Game-by-Game Trend

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123

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. USC: 0. UCLA: 0. Indiana: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. USC: 2 by 8.3. UCLA: 2 by 8.3. Indiana: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

First Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Indiana

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Indiana

Result
Sat 10/18@ IndianaL 13-3821000
Sat 10/11vs UCLAL 13-3821000
Sun 9/21@ USCL 31-4521000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Michigan State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonMichigan State0
2025 Regular SeasonMichigan State08.31.50

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 1 Indiana

Week 8 · L 13-38 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

7.2 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 16 USC

Week 4 · L 31-45 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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.

#3

vs No. 98 UCLA

Week 7 · L 13-38 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

6.4 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Michigan State

0 primary output · 8.3 efficiency · 1.5 usage

40.3

#2

2024 Regular Season · Michigan State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games