Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2019-2025UCLA
Siale Taupaki
DL • 6'4" • 335 lbs • Oakland, CA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Siale Taupaki shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.8 disruption score.
Impact Production
34
Developing production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
26
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
51
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UCLA
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 7
- Program Path
- UCLA
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: USC
Player Story
Siale Taupaki built his college career from 2019 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Oakland, CA wearing No. 92, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Siale Taupaki's career was his defensive production:...
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- Committed To
- UCLA
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2019
Siale Taupaki, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · UCLA. Siale Taupaki shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.8 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 38
- TFL
- 3
- Sacks
- 2
- QB hurries
- 1
Quick Answers
Siale Taupaki quick answers
- Latest team and position
- UCLA · DL
- Career Tackles
- 38
- Tracked sample
- 7 unique seasons · 7 entries · 16 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · UCLA
- Top game
- USC
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Oakland · UCLA
- High school pipeline
- Oakland · 4 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 92 · Junior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 15 tackles · DL 496th (top 46%) · Big Ten 303rd (top 39%) · National 2,477th (top 40%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | UCLA | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2020 Regular Season | UCLA | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2021 Regular Season | UCLA | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2022 Regular Season | UCLA | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2023 Regular Season | UCLA | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | UCLA | 8 | 23 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0 | 24.1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | UCLA | 8 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | 41 |
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Transfer Portal History
Matched portal movement
| Season | Path | Movement | Value | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | UCLA to Penn State | P4 to P4 | 82.1 | Jan 9, 2026 |
Siale Taupaki played DL for UCLA. Across 7 tracked seasons, Siale Taupaki recorded 38 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with UCLA.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
UCLA paired 4 primary output with 12.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 12.8 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: USC
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · UCLA
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
0.5
Efficiency
12.8
Usage
4.6
Consistency
12.5
Best Game by takeover score
USC
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. UNLV: 0. New Mexico: 0. Michigan State: 1. Maryland: 0. Indiana: 0. Nebraska: 0. Washington: 1. USC: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. UNLV: 2 by 8.3. New Mexico: 3 by 12.5. Michigan State: 1 by 14.2. Maryland: 2 by 8.3. Indiana: 2 by 8.3. Nebraska: 2 by 8.3. Washington: 2 by 18.3. USC: 1 by 24.2
Split Comparison
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Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0.5 · Games = 6 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
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8 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
USC
Best efficiency game
24.2 vs USC
Player Story
Siale Taupaki story
Siale Taupaki built his college career from 2019 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Oakland, CA wearing No. 92, spending time with UCLA. The clearest part of Siale Taupaki's career was his defensive production: 38 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 16 career games in the available record. That gives Siale Taupaki's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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UCLA
2019-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
2019202020212022202320242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 Regular Season | UCLA | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2020 Regular Season | UCLA | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2021 Regular Season | UCLA | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2022 Regular Season | UCLA | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2023 Regular Season | UCLA | 0 | — | — | 0 |
| 2024 Regular Season | UCLA | 2 | 14.5 | 3.3 | 2 |
| 2025 Regular Season | UCLA | 4 | 12.8 | 4.6 | 2 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ No. 16 USC
Week 14 · L 10-29 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2
Havoc Plays
74.7 takeover
2 disruption/tackle impact with 74.7 takeover score.
#2
vs Minnesota
Week 7 · L 17-21 · 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
@ No. 82 Michigan State
Week 7 · W 38-13 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
43.9 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 43.9 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 13 Washington
Week 13 · L 14-48 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
1
Havoc Plays
42.5 takeover
Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 42.5 takeover score.
#5
vs Oregon
Week 5 · L 13-34 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
20 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 20 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · UCLA
4 primary output · 12.8 efficiency · 4.6 usage
41
#2
2024 Regular Season · UCLA
24.1
2 primary · 14.5 efficiency · 3.3 usage
#3
2019 Regular Season · UCLA
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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