Player Dossier

2012-2015

Kansas State

Morgan Burns

DB • 5'11" • Wichita, KS, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Morgan Burns shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 1.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

80

High-end production for a defensive back

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

60

Useful peak profile

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2013 Regular Season · Kansas State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Kansas State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Texas Tech

Player Story

Morgan Burns built his college career from 2012 through 2015 as a defensive back from Wichita, KS wearing No. 33, spending time with Kansas State. The clearest part of Morgan Burns' career was his return-game role:...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2011 · Rating 0.7872

Trinity Academy · Wichita, KS

Committed To
Kansas State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2011

Morgan Burns, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2013 Regular Season · Kansas State. Morgan Burns shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 1.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Touchdowns
6

Quick Answers

Morgan Burns quick answers

Latest team and position
Kansas State · DB
Career Tackles
0
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 22 games
Best season
2013 Regular Season · Kansas State
Top game
Texas Tech
Recruit profile
2-star · Trinity Academy · Kansas State
High school pipeline
Trinity Academy · 3 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 33 · Class 2015

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2012 Regular SeasonKansas State00-0--0-
2013 Regular SeasonKansas State20-0--050
2014 Regular SeasonKansas State80-0--138.6
2015 PostseasonKansas State120-0--012.6
2015 Regular SeasonKansas State120-0--512.6

Related Context

Morgan Burns played DB for Kansas State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Morgan Burns recorded 6 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2015 with Kansas State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2013 Regular Season

Kansas State paired 0 primary output with 0 efficiency.

Supporting note

2015 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 1.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2015 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Kansas

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2015 Postseason · Kansas State

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.1

Efficiency

1.7

Usage

Consistency

2.8

Best Game by takeover score

Kansas

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arkansas: 0. South Dakota: 0. UTSA: 0. Louisiana Tech: 0. Oklahoma State: 0. Oklahoma: 0. Texas: 0. Baylor: 0. Texas Tech: 0. Iowa State: 0. Kansas: 1. West Virginia: 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.

Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.2 · Games = 6 · +0.2 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 6 · -0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Kansas

Best efficiency game

20 vs Kansas

Result
Sat 1/2@ ArkansasL 23-45
Sat 12/5vs West VirginiaW 24-23
Sat 11/28@ KansasW 45-141
Sat 11/21vs Iowa StateW 38-35
Sat 11/14@ Texas TechL 44-59
Fri 11/6vs BaylorL 24-31
Sat 10/24@ TexasL 9-23
Sat 10/17vs OklahomaL 0-55
Sat 10/3@ Oklahoma StateL 34-36
Sat 9/19vs Louisiana TechW 39-33
Sat 9/12@ UTSAW 30-3
Sat 9/5vs South DakotaW 34-0

Player Story

Morgan Burns story

Morgan Burns built his college career from 2012 through 2015 as a defensive back from Wichita, KS wearing No. 33, spending time with Kansas State. The clearest part of Morgan Burns' career was his return-game role: 1,572 return yards and 6 return touchdowns across 22 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2015 with Kansas State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

The value of the career arc is that it connects production to role, not just a name on a roster. With 22 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Kansas State.

The arc is straightforward: Morgan Burns 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.

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    Kansas State

    2012-2015

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20122013201420152015
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2012 Regular SeasonKansas State0
2013 Regular SeasonKansas State000
2014 Regular SeasonKansas State37.53
2015 PostseasonKansas State11.7-2
2015 Regular SeasonKansas State11.70

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Texas Tech

Week 6 · W 45-13 · Conference game

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

70 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70 takeover score.

#2

@ Kansas

Week 13 · W 45-14 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#3

@ Oklahoma

Week 8 · W 31-30 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

35 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 35 takeover score.

#4

vs Baylor

Week 7 · L 25-35 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

0 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 0 takeover score.

#5

@ Oklahoma State

Week 6 · L 29-33 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

0 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 0 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2013 Regular Season · Kansas State

0 primary output · 0 efficiency · usage

50

#2

2014 Regular Season · Kansas State

38.6

3 primary · 7.5 efficiency · usage

#3

2015 Postseason · Kansas State

12.6

1 primary · 1.7 efficiency · usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games