Player Dossier

2015-2019

Miami

Chigozie Nnoruka

DL • 6'2" • 300 lbs • Sacramento, CA, USA

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Chigozie Nnoruka shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

12

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

8

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

20

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · UCLA

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
UCLA • Miami
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Memphis

Player Story

Chigozie Nnoruka built his college career from 2015 through 2019 as a defensive lineman from Sacramento, CA wearing No. 99, spending time with Miami and UCLA. The clearest part of Chigozie Nnoruka's career was his...

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Chigozie Nnoruka, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2017 Postseason · UCLA. Chigozie Nnoruka shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
65
TFL
9
Sacks
2

Quick Answers

Chigozie Nnoruka quick answers

Latest team and position
Miami · DL
Career Tackles
65
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 24 games
Best season
2017 Postseason · UCLA
Top game
Memphis
Latest roster
No. 99 · Senior
2019 Tackles rank
12 tackles · DL 441st (top 52%) · ACC 278th (top 44%) · National 2,483rd (top 42%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2015 Regular SeasonUCLA00-0--0-
2016 Regular SeasonUCLA00-0--0-
2017 PostseasonUCLA12310--059
2017 Regular SeasonUCLA124372--059
2018 Regular SeasonUCLA47-0--039.4
2019 PostseasonMiami820.50--09.9
2019 Regular SeasonMiami8100.50--09.9

Related Context

Chigozie Nnoruka played DL for UCLA and Miami. Across 5 tracked seasons, Chigozie Nnoruka recorded 65 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2017 with UCLA.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2017 Postseason

UCLA paired 10 primary output with 24.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2018 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 7.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2019 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across UCLA, Miami.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arizona State

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

Analysis workspace

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2018 Regular Season · UCLA

Games

4

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

7.3

Usage

1.3

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Arizona State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah: 0. Oregon: 0. Arizona State: 0. USC: 0

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. Utah: 1 by 4.2. Oregon: 1 by 4.2. Arizona State: 3 by 12.5. USC: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

4 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Arizona State

Best efficiency game

12.5 vs Arizona State

Result
Sat 11/17vs USCW 34-2721000
Sat 11/10@ Arizona StateL 28-3132000
Sat 11/3@ OregonL 21-4211000
Sat 10/27vs UtahL 10-4110000

Player Story

Chigozie Nnoruka story

Chigozie Nnoruka built his college career from 2015 through 2019 as a defensive lineman from Sacramento, CA wearing No. 99, spending time with Miami and UCLA. The clearest part of Chigozie Nnoruka's career was his defensive production: 65 tackles, 9 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 24 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2017 with UCLA. 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 Chigozie Nnoruka's production has multiple signals. With 24 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Miami and UCLA.

The arc is straightforward: Chigozie Nnoruka 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

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

  1. 1

    UCLA

    2015-2018

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Miami

    2019

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2015201620172017201820192019
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2015 Regular SeasonUCLA0
2016 Regular SeasonUCLA00
2017 PostseasonUCLA1024.37.810
2017 Regular SeasonUCLA1024.37.80
2018 Regular SeasonUCLA07.31.3-10
2019 PostseasonMiami17.51.71
2019 Regular SeasonMiami17.51.70

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Memphis

Week 3 · L 45-48

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

82.2 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 82.2 takeover score.

#2

@ Utah

Week 10 · L 17-48 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

69.2 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 69.2 takeover score.

#3

vs Arizona State

Week 11 · W 44-37 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

56.9 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.9 takeover score.

#4

vs California

Week 13 · W 30-27 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

47.5 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.5 takeover score.

#5

vs Kansas State

Week 1 · L 17-35 · Postseason

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Havoc Plays

41.4 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 41.4 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2017 Postseason · UCLA

10 primary output · 24.3 efficiency · 7.8 usage

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#2

2017 Regular Season · UCLA

59

10 primary · 24.3 efficiency · 7.8 usage

#3

2018 Regular Season · UCLA

39.4

0 primary · 7.3 efficiency · 1.3 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games