Player Dossier

2018-2022

USC

Nick Figueroa

DL • 6'5" • 275 lbs • San Bernardino, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Nick Figueroa shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19 disruption score.

Usage / Role

75%

Major defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

64

Reliable weekly contributor

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Star Power

85

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · USC

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
USC
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Washington State

Player Story

Nick Figueroa built his college career from 2018 through 2022 as a defensive lineman from San Bernardino, CA wearing No. 99, spending time with USC. The clearest part of Nick Figueroa's career was his defensive...

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Nick Figueroa, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Regular Season · USC. Nick Figueroa shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 19 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
63
TFL
17.5
Sacks
11.5
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Nick Figueroa quick answers

Latest team and position
USC · DL
Career Tackles
63
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 6 entries · 33 games
Best season
2020 Regular Season · USC
Top game
Washington State
Latest roster
No. 99 · Senior
2022 Tackles rank
20 tackles · DL 339th (top 35%) · Pac-12 173rd (top 33%) · National 1,915th (top 33%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2018 Regular SeasonUSC00-0--0-
2019 Regular SeasonUSC91022-1019.5
2020 Regular SeasonUSC51764--061
2021 Regular SeasonUSC8163.50--034.9
2022 PostseasonUSC11111--056.7
2022 Regular SeasonUSC111954.51-056.7

Related Context

Nick Figueroa played DL for USC. Across 5 tracked seasons, Nick Figueroa recorded 63 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with USC.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Regular Season

USC paired 10 primary output with 32.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2020 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 32.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2022 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Washington State

Win with backfield disruption leading the way. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2020 Regular Season · USC

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

2

Efficiency

32.2

Usage

12.6

Consistency

31.7

Best Game by takeover score

Washington State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Arizona State: 1.5. Arizona: 1.5. Washington State: 6. UCLA: 1. Oregon: 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. Arizona State: 5 by 35.8. Arizona: 4 by 31.7. Washington State: 3 by 62.5. UCLA: 2 by 18.3. Oregon: 3 by 12.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins2.5 · Games = 4 · +2.5 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -2.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Washington State

Best efficiency game

62.5 vs Washington State

Result
Sat 12/19vs OregonL 24-3132000
Sun 12/13@ UCLAW 43-3821100
Mon 12/7vs Washington State2+ sacks · Splash gameW 38-1333330
Sat 11/14@ ArizonaW 34-30420.5010
Sat 11/7vs Arizona StateW 28-27511.5000

Player Story

Nick Figueroa story

Nick Figueroa built his college career from 2018 through 2022 as a defensive lineman from San Bernardino, CA wearing No. 99, spending time with USC. The clearest part of Nick Figueroa's career was his defensive production: 63 tackles, 17.5 tackles for loss, 11.5 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 33 career games in the available record. That gives Nick Figueroa's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    USC

    2018-2022

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201820192020202120222022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 Regular SeasonUSC0
2019 Regular SeasonUSC510.22.55
2020 Regular SeasonUSC1032.212.65
2021 Regular SeasonUSC3.512.77.6-6.5
2022 PostseasonUSC12.5197.29
2022 Regular SeasonUSC12.5197.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Washington State

Week 14 · W 38-13 · Conference game

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

6

Havoc Plays

87.5 takeover

6 disruption/tackle impact with 87.5 takeover score.

#2

vs Washington State

Week 6 · W 30-14 · Conference game

4

Havoc Plays

82.8 takeover

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

4 disruption/tackle impact with 82.8 takeover score.

#3

vs San José State

Week 1 · W 30-7

1

Havoc Plays

71.4 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 71.4 takeover score.

#4

vs Stanford

Week 2 · L 28-42 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

68.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 68.3 takeover score.

#5

vs UCLA

Week 12 · L 33-62 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

66.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 66.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Regular Season · USC

10 primary output · 32.2 efficiency · 12.6 usage

61

#2

2022 Postseason · USC

56.7

12.5 primary · 19 efficiency · 7.2 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · USC

56.7

12.5 primary · 19 efficiency · 7.2 usage

Milestones

6

Impact games

7

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games