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

50%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a corner

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

77

High-upside career profile

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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

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

2024 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 27.9 efficiency.

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Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

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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: Northwestern State

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Postseason · South Alabama

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

27.9

Usage

4.5

Consistency

53.3

Best Game by takeover score

Northwestern State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Western Michigan: 1. North Texas: 1. Ohio: 0. Northwestern State: 3. App State: 2. LSU: 2. Arkansas State: 0. Louisiana: 0. Southern Miss: 1. Texas State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Western Michigan: 4 by 26.7. North Texas: 2 by 18.3. Ohio: 6 by 25. Northwestern State: 2 by 38.3. App State: 3 by 32.5. LSU: 10 by 61.7. Arkansas State: 5 by 20.8. Louisiana: 3 by 12.5. Southern Miss: 2 by 18.3. Texas State: 6 by 25

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.4 · Games = 5 · +0.8 vs Losses
Losses0.6 · Games = 5 · -0.8 vs Wins

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Northwestern State

Best efficiency game

61.7 vs LSU

Result
Sun 12/15@ Western MichiganW 30-23430010
Fri 11/29vs Texas StateL 38-4564000
Sat 11/23@ Southern MissW 35-1420001
Sun 11/17@ LouisianaW 24-2233000
Sat 10/5@ Arkansas StateL 16-1855000
Sat 9/28@ LSU10+ tackles · Splash gameL 10-42108002
Thu 9/19@ App StateSplash gameW 48-1433101
Thu 9/12vs Northwestern StateSplash gameW 87-10221011
Sat 9/7@ OhioL 20-2761000
Sat 8/31vs North TexasL 38-5222001

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

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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