Player Dossier

2016-2019

Old Dominion

Mufu Taiwo

DT • 6'5" • 312 lbs • Waldorf, MD, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Mufu Taiwo shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.8 disruption score.

Usage Score

10.7

Efficiency

22.8

Consistency

66.3

Season Value

34.7

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2019 Regular Season · Old Dominion

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
4
Program Path
Old Dominion
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

Mufu Taiwo, DT. Best season Best season by value score: 2019 Regular Season · Old Dominion. Mufu Taiwo shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22.8 disruption score.

Mufu Taiwo played DT for Old Dominion. Across 4 tracked seasons, Mufu Taiwo recorded 20 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Old Dominion.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2019 Regular Season

Old Dominion paired 3.5 primary output with 22.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

2019 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 22.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2019 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Middle Tennessee

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2019 Regular Season · Old Dominion

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

1.2

Efficiency

22.8

Usage

10.7

Consistency

66.3

Best Game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

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Active game

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Virginia Tech: 0.5. UTSA: 1. Middle Tennessee: 2

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Virginia Tech: 1 by 9.2. UTSA: 5 by 30.8. Middle Tennessee: 2 by 28.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Losses1.2 · Games = 3
First Half0.8 · Games = 2
All Games1.2 · Games = 3

Game Log

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3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Middle Tennessee

Best efficiency game

30.8 vs UTSA

Result
Sat 11/23@ Middle TennesseeSplash gameL 17-3822200
Sat 11/9vs UTSAL 23-24500.500.500
Sat 9/7@ Virginia TechL 17-31100.5000

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Old Dominion

    2016-2019

    Opening stop

Season Progression

2016201720182019
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2016 Regular SeasonOld Dominion111.313.4
2017 Regular SeasonOld Dominion0.59.23.8-0.5
2018 Regular SeasonOld Dominion2.57.322
2019 Regular SeasonOld Dominion3.522.810.71

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Middle Tennessee

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 48.9 takeover score.

#2

Western Kentucky

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 48.2 takeover score.

#3

Western Kentucky

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.7 takeover score.

#4

Middle Tennessee

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 36.7 takeover score.

#5

UTSA

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 30.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2019 Regular Season · Old Dominion

3.5 primary output · 22.8 efficiency · 10.7 usage

34.7

#2

2017 Regular Season · Old Dominion

29.6

0.5 primary · 9.2 efficiency · 3.8 usage

#3

2016 Regular Season · Old Dominion

21.4

1 primary · 11.3 efficiency · 13.4 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

2★

Class 2015 · Rating 0.7759

Maurice J. McDonough · Pomfret, MD

Committed To
Old Dominion
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2015

Career Facts

1

Career teams

4

Seasons tracked

20

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 4 tracked seasons, 14 games, and base opponent context only. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.