Senior linebacker for Utah State. 2018: 39 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 1 sack.
6′0″ · 230 lb · Kirkland, WA
The story
4 linebacker for Utah State. 2018: 39 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 1 sack.
The record fills in as he plays.
His career, year by yearSuli Tamaivena
Second year in the Utah State linebacker corps, same address the whole way. The receipt on tape: 12 tackles against Air Force, Week 4, 2018.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Two seasons at Utah State, 150 tackles — his college career is complete.
Career arc
Season context · Team result + system
2 seasons under Matt Wells, all balanced offenses — 17-9 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: passes defended (19th 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
2018 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 7.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 2.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 5.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 4.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Bronco Mendenhall
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2018
Earning real snaps in the rotation without a starting job.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Utah State | 39 | 20 | 5.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Utah State | 111 | 43 | 6.5 | 3.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 150 | 63 | 11.5 | 4.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 6 · 2018
W 45–20
at BYU
3 TOT · 2 SOLO
Dominant 25-point win on the road against BYU.
With T. Hintze — 42 AVG · 2 IN 20 · 50 LONG · D. Thompson — 109 rush yds (17 car)
Game log · Week-by-week
2018 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | W 42-32vs Air Force | 12 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 12 tackles |
| Wk 6 | W 45-20@ BYU | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 59-28vs UNLV | 6 | 3 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 24-16@ Wyoming | 4 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 61-19vs New Mexico | 7 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 56-17@ Hawai'i | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 62-24vs San José State | 4 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 52-13@ North Texas | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 39 | 20 | 5.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
39 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 5 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.