Viliami Latu: DL · Arizona State · #41.
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Viliami Latu
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Second year in the same defensive front at Arizona State. On tape: 6 tackles and 2 tackles for loss against UTSA, Week 3, 2016.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
21 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 6 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Arizona State | 21 | 15 | 6.0 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | Arizona State | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 21 | 15 | 6.0 | 1.5 |
There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.
Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.
Game log · Week-by-week
2016 season · 9 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 68-55vs Texas Tech | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 32-28@ UTSA | 6 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 6 tackles |
| Wk 4 | W 51-41vs California | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 16-40@ Colorado | 5 | 5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 32-37vs Washington State | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 35-54@ Oregon | 2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 26-49vs No. 13 Utah | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 18-44@ No. 7 Washington | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 35-56@ Arizona | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 21 | 15 | 6.0 | 1.5 | — | 0 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
29%6 TFLSack rate
7%2 sacksHurry rate
5%1 hurry21 tackles · 6 for loss · 1.5 sacks.
2 seasons under Todd Graham — 11-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2016 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 3.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Todd Graham
Pass share
47.5%
425 pass / 469 run
Plays / game
74.5
12 games
Team sack rate
8.2%
474 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2016
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Arizona State, 2 sacks — the college career is complete.
Coaching lineage · 2013–2016
1 coachPlayed every college season under Todd Graham.
