Player Dossier

2024-2025

Buffalo

John Keough

S • 6'0" • 202 lbs • Macedonia, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

John Keough shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

10

Developing production for a safety

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Reliability

8

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

22

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Buffalo

2425

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Buffalo
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Bowling Green
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.817

Walsh Jesuit · Stow, OH

Committed To
Buffalo
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

John Keough, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Buffalo. John Keough shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
20

Quick Answers

John Keough quick answers

Latest team and position
Buffalo · S
Career Tackles
20
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 16 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Buffalo
Top game
Bowling Green
Recruit profile
3-star · Walsh Jesuit · Buffalo
High school pipeline
Walsh Jesuit · 22 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 16 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
14 tackles · S 294th (top 53%) · Mid-American 233rd (top 41%) · National 2,530th (top 41%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonBuffalo66-0--036.7
2025 Regular SeasonBuffalo1014-0--037.9

Related Context

John Keough played S for Buffalo. Across 2 tracked seasons, John Keough recorded 20 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Buffalo.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Buffalo paired 0 primary output with 5.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 5.9 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: Bowling Green

Win 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 · Buffalo

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

5.9

Usage

0.9

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Bowling Green

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Kent State: 0. Troy: 0. UConn: 0. Eastern Michigan: 0. Massachusetts: 0. Akron: 0. Bowling Green: 0. Central Michigan: 0. Miami (OH): 0. Ohio: 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. Kent State: 1 by 4.2. Troy: 1 by 4.2. UConn: 2 by 8.3. Eastern Michigan: 2 by 8.3. Massachusetts: 1 by 4.2. Akron: 1 by 4.2. Bowling Green: 3 by 12.5. Central Michigan: 1 by 4.2. Miami (OH): 1 by 4.2. Ohio: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 4 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 6 · +0 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

Bowling Green

Best efficiency game

12.5 vs Bowling Green

Result
Fri 11/28vs OhioL 26-3111000
Thu 11/20vs Miami (OH)L 20-3711000
Thu 11/13@ Central MichiganL 19-3811000
Sat 11/1@ Bowling GreenW 28-332000
Sat 10/25vs AkronL 16-2410000
Sat 10/18@ MassachusettsW 28-2111000
Sat 10/4vs Eastern MichiganW 31-3021000
Sat 9/27vs UConnL 17-2021000
Sat 9/20vs TroyL 17-2111000
Sat 9/13@ Kent StateW 31-2810000

Career Arc

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    Buffalo

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonBuffalo04.20.7
2025 Regular SeasonBuffalo05.90.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 113 Bowling Green

Week 10 · W 28-3 · Conference game

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

9.4 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.4 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 53 UConn

Week 5 · L 17-20

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. 119 Eastern Michigan

Week 6 · W 31-30 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

5.5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5.5 takeover score.

#4

vs Kent State

Week 14 · W 43-7 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.9 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.

#5

@ Akron

Week 10 · W 41-30 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Buffalo

0 primary output · 5.9 efficiency · 0.9 usage

37.9

#2

2024 Regular Season · Buffalo

36.7

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games