Senior defensive tackle on Oklahoma State's 2025 roster.
6′2″ · 305 lb · Waimanalo, HI
The numbers
sacks · 2025
1 TFL · 13 tackles
Best game: 1 TFL, 3 tackles, vs Kansas State
His career numbers, season by seasonHow he plays
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move.
Passes defended: 48th percentile.
The full scouting readSitiveni Kaufusi
Controls the point of attack and doesn't move. Sitiveni Kaufusi has played for three head coaches across four seasons and two programs. The receipt: 3 tackles, 1 TFL against Kansas State — Week 12, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mike Gundy → Doug Meacham. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles (13th percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 1.7 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road3g | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 1.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Eric Morris
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Tackle volume for the position at the early end of the ladder.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Oklahoma State | 13 | 8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2024 | UCLA | 10 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2023 | UCLA | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | UCLA | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 33 | 18 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 1 · 2025
W 27–7
vs UT Martin
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 27-7vs UT Martin | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 2 | L 3-69@ Oregon | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 12-19vs Tulsa | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 13-41@ Arizona | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 17-39vs Houston | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 17-49vs Cincinnati | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 0-42@ Texas Tech | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 6-14vs Kansas State | 3 | 3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 3 tackles |
| Wk 14 | L 13-20vs Iowa State | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 13 | 8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 |
Play style
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
13 tackles. 1 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 1 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
2026 Outlook
Oklahoma State
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Defensive tackle · Oklahoma State
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Oklahoma State · Last season: 1-11 · Talent rank #65 · 2026 recruiting class #69
Player DNA
The heaviest frame on the interior. Sack production is intentionally not the point of this profile.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Sitiveni Kaufusi’s 2024 season.
Matches Sitiveni on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Tyler Bentley's senior season at Pittsburgh (2023).
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Player DNA