Usage / Role
15%
Rotational defensive role
lowfeatured
Player Dossier
2019-2024Akron
Lama Lavea
DL • 6'1" • 300 lbs • El Paso, TX, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Lama Lavea shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.2 disruption score.
Impact Production
38
Developing production for a defensive lineman
lowelite
Reliability
23
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
61
Useful peak profile
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · New Mexico State
19202122222324
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 6
- Program Path
- New Mexico State • Akron
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Colgate
Player Story
Lama Lavea built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from El Paso, TX wearing No. 5, spending time with Akron and New Mexico State. The clearest part of Lama Lavea's career was his...
Read the story3★
- Committed To
- New Mexico State
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2019
Lama Lavea, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2022 Postseason · New Mexico State. Lama Lavea shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.2 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 54
- TFL
- 4
- Sacks
- 2
- QB hurries
- 3
- Passes defended
- 1
Quick Answers
Lama Lavea quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Akron · DL
- Career Tackles
- 54
- Tracked sample
- 6 unique seasons · 7 entries · 27 games
- Best season
- 2022 Postseason · New Mexico State
- Top game
- Colgate
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Chapin · New Mexico State
- High school pipeline
- Chapin · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 5 · Senior
- 2024 Tackles rank
- 12 tackles · DL 543rd (top 53%) · Mid-American 228th (top 43%) · National 2,707th (top 45%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | New Mexico State | 1 | 2 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 38.9 |
| 2020 Regular Season | New Mexico State | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | New Mexico State | 6 | 9 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 9.7 |
| 2022 Postseason | New Mexico State | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 56.2 |
| 2022 Regular Season | New Mexico State | 7 | 7 | - | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 56.2 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Akron | 7 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | - | 0 | 25.7 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Akron | 6 | 12 | 1.5 | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | 37.5 |
Related Context
Keep exploring Lama Lavea
Lama Lavea played DL for New Mexico State and Akron. Across 6 tracked seasons, Lama Lavea recorded 54 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2023 with Akron.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2022 Postseason
New Mexico State paired 4 primary output with 10.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
2024 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 14.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2024 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across New Mexico State, Akron.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Colgate
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.
Season Explorer
Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.
2024 Regular Season · Akron
Games
6
Havoc Plays / G
0.6
Efficiency
14.2
Usage
4.5
Consistency
11.1
Best Game by takeover score
Colgate
Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.
Active game
Hover over a point
Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.
Game-by-Game Trend
Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.
Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Ohio State: 0. Colgate: 3. South Carolina: 0. Ohio: 0.5. Bowling Green: 0. Western Michigan: 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.
Low volumeHigh quality
High volumeHigh quality
Low volumeLower quality
High volumeLower quality
Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.
Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Ohio State: 1 by 4.2. Colgate: 4 by 46.7. South Carolina: 1 by 4.2. Ohio: 3 by 17.5. Bowling Green: 1 by 4.2. Western Michigan: 2 by 8.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins3 · Games = 1 · +2.9 vs Losses
Losses0.1 · Games = 5 · -2.9 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
6 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Colgate
Best efficiency game
46.7 vs Colgate
Player Story
Lama Lavea story
Lama Lavea built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a defensive lineman from El Paso, TX wearing No. 5, spending time with Akron and New Mexico State. The clearest part of Lama Lavea's career was his defensive production: 54 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 1 pass defended across 27 career games in the available record. That gives Lama Lavea's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.
- 1
New Mexico State
2019-2022
Opening stop
- 2
Akron
2023-2024
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2019202020212022202220232024
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | New Mexico State | 0 | 8.3 | 1 | — |
| 2020 Regular Season | New Mexico State | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2021 Regular Season | New Mexico State | 0.5 | 7.1 | 1.6 | 0.5 |
| 2022 Postseason | New Mexico State | 4 | 10.5 | 16.3 | 3.5 |
| 2022 Regular Season | New Mexico State | 4 | 10.5 | 16.3 | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Akron | 2 | 16.5 | 3.2 | -2 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Akron | 3.5 | 14.2 | 4.5 | 1.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Colgate
Week 3 · W 31-20
Win 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
@ Bowling Green
Week 1 · W 24-19 · Postseason
2
Havoc Plays
74.7 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.
#3
vs Buffalo
Week 5 · L 10-13 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
72.8 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 72.8 takeover score.
#4
@ Central Michigan
Week 7 · L 10-17 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
52.5 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 52.5 takeover score.
#5
@ Wisconsin
Week 3 · L 7-66
1
Havoc Plays
43.1 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.1 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2022 Postseason · New Mexico State
4 primary output · 10.5 efficiency · 16.3 usage
56.2
#2
2022 Regular Season · New Mexico State
56.2
4 primary · 10.5 efficiency · 16.3 usage
#3
2019 Regular Season · New Mexico State
38.9
0 primary · 8.3 efficiency · 1 usage
Milestones
3
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
Next best actions
Keep exploring Lama Lavea
Move from the player story into the game log, career arc, team context, and video shelf.