Player Dossier

2015-2018

New Mexico State

Lui Fa'amasino

LB • 6'0" • 227 lbs • Anchorage, AK, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Lui Fa'amasino shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

24

Developing production for a linebacker

lowelite

Reliability

32

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

28

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · New Mexico State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
New Mexico State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UTEP

Player Story

Lui Fa'amasino built his college career from 2015 through 2018 as a linebacker from Anchorage, AK wearing No. 49, spending time with New Mexico State. The clearest part of Lui Fa'amasino's career was his defensive...

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Lui Fa'amasino, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Regular Season · New Mexico State. Lui Fa'amasino shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
70
TFL
4.5
Sacks
0.5
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Lui Fa'amasino quick answers

Latest team and position
New Mexico State · LB
Career Tackles
70
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 10 games
Best season
2017 Regular Season · New Mexico State
Top game
UTEP
Latest roster
No. 49 · Senior
2018 Tackles rank
7 tackles · LB 793rd (top 68%) · FBS Independents 138th (top 54%) · National 3,007th (top 52%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State00-0--0-
2017 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State8634.50.51-065.4
2018 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State27-0--044

Related Context

Lui Fa'amasino played LB for New Mexico State. Across 4 tracked seasons, Lui Fa'amasino recorded 70 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with New Mexico State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Regular Season

New Mexico State paired 6 primary output with 38.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2018 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Minnesota

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2018 Regular Season · New Mexico State

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

14.6

Usage

2.1

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Minnesota

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Minnesota: 0. Wyoming: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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First Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Minnesota

Best efficiency game

25 vs Minnesota

Result
Thu 8/30@ MinnesotaL 10-4865000
Sun 8/26vs WyomingL 7-2910000

Player Story

Lui Fa'amasino story

Lui Fa'amasino built his college career from 2015 through 2018 as a linebacker from Anchorage, AK wearing No. 49, spending time with New Mexico State. The clearest part of Lui Fa'amasino's career was his defensive production: 70 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, and 0.5 sacks across 10 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2017 with New Mexico State. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Lui Fa'amasino's production has multiple signals. His career also includes 6 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 10 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across New Mexico State.

The arc is straightforward: Lui Fa'amasino 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

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    New Mexico State

    2015-2018

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2015201620172018
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State0
2016 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State00
2017 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State638.28.16
2018 Regular SeasonNew Mexico State014.62.1-6

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs UTEP

Week 4 · W 41-14

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

90 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 90 takeover score.

#2

@ Arkansas

Week 5 · L 24-42

1

Havoc Plays

70 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 70 takeover score.

#3

@ Arizona State

Week 1 · L 31-37

1

Havoc Plays

57.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.8 takeover score.

#4

@ Texas State

Week 10 · W 45-35 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

54.2 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 54.2 takeover score.

#5

@ App State

Week 6 · L 31-45 · Conference game

0.5

Havoc Plays

41.7 takeover

Loss with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 41.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Regular Season · New Mexico State

6 primary output · 38.2 efficiency · 8.1 usage

65.4

#2

2018 Regular Season · New Mexico State

44

0 primary · 14.6 efficiency · 2.1 usage

#3

2015 Regular Season · New Mexico State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

1

Splash games

3

10+ tackle games