Player Dossier

2018-2021

UCLA

Otito Ogbonnia

DL • 6'4" • 318 lbs • Houston, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Otito Ogbonnia shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

41%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

56

Solid production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

43

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

80

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · UCLA

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
UCLA
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: LSU

Player Story

Otito Ogbonnia built his college career from 2018 through 2021 as a defensive lineman from Houston, TX wearing No. 91, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Otito Ogbonnia's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2018 · Rating 0.8689

Taylor · Katy, TX

Committed To
UCLA
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2018

NFL Draft

Draft Year
2022
Selection
Round 5 · Pick 17
Overall
No. 160
NFL Team
Los Angeles Chargers

Otito Ogbonnia, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2021 Regular Season · UCLA. Otito Ogbonnia shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
76
TFL
8.5
Sacks
4.5
QB hurries
4
Passes defended
6

Quick Answers

Otito Ogbonnia quick answers

Latest team and position
UCLA · DL
Career Tackles
76
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 4 entries · 37 games
Best season
2021 Regular Season · UCLA
Top game
LSU
Recruit profile
3-star · Taylor · UCLA
High school pipeline
Taylor · 17 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
NFL Draft
2022 · Round 5 · Pick 17 · Los Angeles Chargers
Latest roster
No. 91 · Junior
2021 Tackles rank
27 tackles · DL 214th (top 23%) · Pac-12 141st (top 26%) · National 1,585th (top 27%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2018 Regular SeasonUCLA1121-011012
2019 Regular SeasonUCLA91221-1021.8
2020 Regular SeasonUCLA6161.51.512044.5
2021 Regular SeasonUCLA11275222055.6

Related Context

Otito Ogbonnia played DL for UCLA. Across 4 tracked seasons, Otito Ogbonnia recorded 76 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with UCLA.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2021 Regular Season

UCLA paired 11 primary output with 20.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2021 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 20.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2021 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: LSU

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2021 Regular Season · UCLA

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

1

Efficiency

20.2

Usage

6.1

Consistency

51.5

Best Game by takeover score

LSU

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. LSU: 3. Fresno State: 1.5. Stanford: 0. Arizona State: 0. Arizona: 2.5. Washington: 1. Oregon: 0. Utah: 0. Colorado: 2. USC: 1. California: 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. LSU: 2 by 38.3. Fresno State: 1 by 19.2. Stanford: 1 by 4.2. Arizona State: 4 by 16.7. Arizona: 5 by 45.8. Washington: 3 by 22.5. Oregon: 4 by 16.7. Utah: 1 by 4.2. Colorado: 2 by 28.3. USC: 3 by 22.5. California: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.4 · Games = 7 · +1.0 vs Losses
Losses0.4 · Games = 4 · -1.0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

LSU

Best efficiency game

45.8 vs Arizona

Result
Sun 11/28vs CaliforniaW 42-1411000
Sat 11/20@ USCW 62-3331001
Sun 11/14vs ColoradoSplash gameW 44-2021110
Sun 10/31@ UtahL 24-4410000
Sat 10/23vs OregonL 31-3441000
Sun 10/17@ WashingtonW 24-1733100
Sun 10/10@ ArizonaSplash gameW 34-16531.5010
Sun 10/3vs Arizona StateL 23-4243000
Sat 9/25@ StanfordW 35-2410000
Sun 9/19vs Fresno StateL 37-40100.5000
Sun 9/5vs LSUSplash gameW 38-2722101

Player Story

Otito Ogbonnia story

Otito Ogbonnia built his college career from 2018 through 2021 as a defensive lineman from Houston, TX wearing No. 91, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Otito Ogbonnia's career was his defensive production: 76 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, and 6 passes defended across 37 career games in the available record. That gives Otito Ogbonnia's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    UCLA

    2018-2021

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

2018201920202021
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 Regular SeasonUCLA29.81.7
2019 Regular SeasonUCLA4103.62
2020 Regular SeasonUCLA621.15.62
2021 Regular SeasonUCLA1120.26.15

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs LSU

Week 1 · W 38-27

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

79.4 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 79.4 takeover score.

#2

vs USC

Week 15 · L 38-43 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

78.6 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 78.6 takeover score.

#3

@ Arizona

Week 6 · W 34-16 · Conference game

2.5

Havoc Plays

76.4 takeover

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 76.4 takeover score.

#4

@ Utah

Week 12 · L 3-49 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

74.7 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.

#5

vs Stanford

Week 16 · L 47-48 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

56.1 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 56.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2021 Regular Season · UCLA

11 primary output · 20.2 efficiency · 6.1 usage

55.6

#2

2020 Regular Season · UCLA

44.5

6 primary · 21.1 efficiency · 5.6 usage

#3

2019 Regular Season · UCLA

21.8

4 primary · 10 efficiency · 3.6 usage

Milestones

4

Impact games

5

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games