Player Dossier

2024-2025

Kansas State

Amarion Fortenberry

CB • 5'10" • 178 lbs • Columbia, MS, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Amarion Fortenberry shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12 disruption score.

Usage / Role

13%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

27

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

28

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

44

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · South Alabama

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
South Alabama • Kansas State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Northwestern State

Player Story

Amarion Fortenberry built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a cornerback from Columbia, MS, spending time with Kansas State and South Alabama. The clearest part of Amarion Fortenberry's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8403

Columbia · Columbia, MS

Committed To
South Alabama
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Amarion Fortenberry, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · South Alabama. Amarion Fortenberry shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
56
TFL
3
Passes defended
8

Quick Answers

Amarion Fortenberry quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas State · CB
Career Tackles
56
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 17 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · South Alabama
Top game
Northwestern State
Recruit profile
3-star · Columbia · South Alabama
High school pipeline
Columbia · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 0 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
13 tackles · CB 234th (top 50%) · Big 12 304th (top 42%) · National 2,563rd (top 42%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 PostseasonSouth Alabama104-0--054.7
2024 Regular SeasonSouth Alabama103920-6054.7
2025 Regular SeasonKansas State71310-2016.9

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Kansas State to South FloridaP4 to G5/FCS80.7Jan 11, 2026
2025South Alabama to Kansas StateG5/FCS to P482.1Jan 4, 2025

Amarion Fortenberry played CB for South Alabama and Kansas State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Amarion Fortenberry recorded 56 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with South Alabama.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

South Alabama paired 10 primary output with 27.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12 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 South Alabama, Kansas State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: North Dakota

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Kansas State

Games

7

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

12

Usage

1.9

Consistency

9.5

Best Game by takeover score

North Dakota

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. North Dakota: 2. Baylor: 0. TCU: 0. Kansas: 0. Texas Tech: 1. Oklahoma State: 0. Colorado: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. North Dakota: 2 by 28.3. Baylor: 1 by 4.2. TCU: 2 by 8.3. Kansas: 1 by 4.2. Texas Tech: 1 by 14.2. Oklahoma State: 5 by 20.8. Colorado: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.4 · Games = 5 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

North Dakota

Best efficiency game

28.3 vs North Dakota

Result
Sat 11/29vs ColoradoW 24-1411000
Sat 11/15@ Oklahoma StateW 14-653000
Sat 11/1vs Texas TechL 20-4311001
Sat 10/25@ KansasW 42-1711000
Sat 10/11vs TCUW 41-2822000
Sat 10/4@ BaylorL 34-3511000
Sat 8/30vs North DakotaSplash gameW 38-3521101

Player Story

Amarion Fortenberry story

Amarion Fortenberry built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a cornerback from Columbia, MS, spending time with Kansas State and South Alabama. The clearest part of Amarion Fortenberry's career was his defensive production: 56 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, 2 interceptions, and 8 passes defended across 17 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2024 with South Alabama. 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 Amarion Fortenberry's production has multiple signals. With 17 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kansas State and South Alabama.

The arc is straightforward: Amarion Fortenberry 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

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

  1. 1

    South Alabama

    2024

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Kansas State

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 PostseasonSouth Alabama1027.94.5
2024 Regular SeasonSouth Alabama1027.94.50
2025 Regular SeasonKansas State3121.9-7

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Northwestern State

Week 3 · W 87-10

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

74.7 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.

#2

@ LSU

Week 5 · L 10-42

2

Havoc Plays

63.6 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 63.6 takeover score.

#3

vs North Dakota

Week 1 · W 38-35

2

Havoc Plays

55 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 55 takeover score.

#4

@ App State

Week 4 · W 48-14 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

49.2 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 49.2 takeover score.

#5

@ Western Michigan

Week 1 · W 30-23 · Postseason

1

Havoc Plays

38.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 38.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · South Alabama

10 primary output · 27.9 efficiency · 4.5 usage

54.7

#2

2024 Regular Season · South Alabama

54.7

10 primary · 27.9 efficiency · 4.5 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Kansas State

16.9

3 primary · 12 efficiency · 1.9 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

4

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games