Player Dossier

2024-2025

Oklahoma State

David Kabongo

S • 5'10" • 190 lbs • Roanoke, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

David Kabongo shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

21

Developing production for a safety

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Reliability

9

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

26

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

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

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Oklahoma State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Colorado

Player Story

David Kabongo built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a safety from Roanoke, TX wearing No. 18, spending time with Oklahoma State. The clearest part of David Kabongo's career was his defensive production:...

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David Kabongo, S. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State. David Kabongo shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
32
TFL
1
Sacks
1

Quick Answers

David Kabongo quick answers

Latest team and position
Oklahoma State · S
Career Tackles
32
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 10 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State
Top game
Colorado
High school pipeline
Byron Nelson · 12 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 18 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
12 tackles · S 311th (top 56%) · Big 12 321st (top 44%) · National 2,687th (top 44%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonOklahoma State62011--038.4
2025 Regular SeasonOklahoma State412-0--043.4

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Oklahoma State to Utah StateP4 to G5/FCS75.9Jan 8, 2026

David Kabongo played S for Oklahoma State. Across 2 tracked seasons, David Kabongo recorded 32 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Oklahoma State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Oklahoma State paired 0 primary output with 12.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.5 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: Oregon

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

12.5

Usage

2.1

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Oregon

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. UT Martin: 0. Oregon: 0. Tulsa: 0. Baylor: 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. UT Martin: 1 by 4.2. Oregon: 4 by 16.7. Tulsa: 4 by 16.7. Baylor: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Oregon

Best efficiency game

16.7 vs Tulsa

Result
Sat 9/27vs BaylorL 27-4531000
Fri 9/19vs TulsaL 12-1942000
Sat 9/6@ OregonL 3-6942000
Thu 8/28vs UT MartinW 27-711000

Player Story

David Kabongo story

David Kabongo built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a safety from Roanoke, TX wearing No. 18, spending time with Oklahoma State. The clearest part of David Kabongo's career was his defensive production: 32 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, and 1 sack across 10 career games in the available record. That gives David Kabongo'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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    Oklahoma State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonOklahoma State217.23.7
2025 Regular SeasonOklahoma State012.52.1-2

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Colorado

Week 14 · L 0-52 · Conference game

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

83.1 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 83.1 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 4 Oregon

Week 2 · L 3-69 · Ranked opponent

0

Havoc Plays

14.5 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 14.5 takeover score.

#3

vs West Virginia

Week 6 · L 14-38 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

12.5 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 12.5 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 104 Tulsa

Week 4 · L 12-19

0

Havoc Plays

12.5 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 12.5 takeover score.

#5

vs Arizona State

Week 10 · L 21-42 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

10 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 10 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

0 primary output · 12.5 efficiency · 2.1 usage

43.4

#2

2024 Regular Season · Oklahoma State

38.4

2 primary · 17.2 efficiency · 3.7 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games