2025 Football Roster

Taylor OConnor/UAlbany Athletics

0 Balansama Kamara

  • Position Defensive Lineman
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 257
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Highschool Central

Biography

2024

  • Played in 11 games
  • Recorded 22 tackles (11 solo, 11 assisted)
  • Forced a fumble at Bryant
 

Before UAlbany

  • Temple University
    • Played two years for the Owls (2021-22)
    • Saw first career game action and made first career tackle at home vs Wagner (2021)
    • Named Defensive Scout Team Player of the Week (Houston, 2021)
    • Got first career start and partial sack against Cincinnati (2022)
    • Lettered in 2022
    • Transitioned during the spring of 2023 from defensive end to outside linebacker
  • Central High School
    • Played defensive end under head coach Rich Drayton
    • A three-year letterwinner, he recorded nine sacks, three forced fumbles and 60 tackles as a junior
    • Named to the Pennsylvania All-State Big 33 team as a senior
 

Personal

  • Born Balansama Kamara in Philadelphia
  • Parents are Fatmata Marah and Desmond Grant
  • Sister Aminata.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2024Junior

    Defensive Lineman
    6'2" 255 lbs
    12
  • 0

    2025Junior

    Defensive Lineman
    6'3" 257 lbs
    0