Player Dossier

2019-2024

Fresno State

Tuasivi Nomura

LB • 6'1" • 221 lbs • Corona, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tuasivi Nomura shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 40.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

100%

Featured defensive role

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

83

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Fresno State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
6
Program Path
USC • Fresno State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Sacramento State

Player Story

Tuasivi Nomura built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a linebacker from Corona, CA wearing No. 8, spending time with Fresno State and USC. The clearest part of Tuasivi Nomura's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8719

Winton Woods · Cincinnati, OH

Committed To
Indiana
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Tuasivi Nomura, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Fresno State. Tuasivi Nomura shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 40.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
148
TFL
10.5
Sacks
1
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
4

Quick Answers

Tuasivi Nomura quick answers

Latest team and position
Fresno State · LB
Career Tackles
148
Tracked sample
6 unique seasons · 8 entries · 31 games
Best season
2024 Postseason · Fresno State
Top game
Sacramento State
Recruit profile
3-star · Winton Woods · Indiana
High school pipeline
Winton Woods · 31 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 8 · Senior
2024 Tackles rank
102 tackles · LB 31st (top 3%) · Mountain West 4th (top 1%) · National 41st (top 1%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 Regular SeasonUSC00-0--0-
2020 Regular SeasonUSC24-0--040.3
2021 Regular SeasonUSC25-0--042.7
2022 Regular SeasonUSC8221.5011030
2023 PostseasonFresno State7210--022.5
2023 Regular SeasonFresno State71311--022.5
2024 PostseasonFresno State121210--062.6
2024 Regular SeasonFresno State129060-3062.6

Related Context

Tuasivi Nomura played LB for USC and Fresno State. Across 6 tracked seasons, Tuasivi Nomura recorded 148 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Fresno State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason

Fresno State paired 10 primary output with 40.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2024 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 40.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2024 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 USC, Fresno State.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Sacramento State

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 91.7th percentile of the selected season.

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2024 Postseason · Fresno State

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

40.3

Usage

8.8

Consistency

36.7

Best Game by takeover score

Sacramento State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Northern Illinois: 1. Michigan: 0. Sacramento State: 2.5. New Mexico State: 0. New Mexico: 1. UNLV: 0. Nevada: 0. San José State: 0. Hawai'i: 3.5. Air Force: 0. Colorado State: 1. UCLA: 1

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. Northern Illinois: 12 by 60. Michigan: 6 by 25. Sacramento State: 11 by 70.8. New Mexico State: 5 by 20.8. New Mexico: 16 by 60. UNLV: 5 by 20.8. Nevada: 7 by 29.2. San José State: 4 by 16.7. Hawai'i: 8 by 68.3. Air Force: 18 by 50. Colorado State: 3 by 22.5. UCLA: 7 by 39.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.8 · Games = 6 · -0.2 vs Losses
Losses0.9 · Games = 6 · +0.2 vs Wins

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Sacramento State

Best efficiency game

70.8 vs Sacramento State

Result
Mon 12/23vs Northern Illinois10+ tacklesL 20-281211100
Sat 11/30@ UCLAL 13-2074001
Sun 11/24vs Colorado StateW 28-2233100
Sun 11/10@ Air Force10+ tacklesL 28-36189000
Sat 11/2vs Hawai'iSplash gameL 20-21871.5002
Sun 10/27vs San José StateW 33-1042000
Sat 10/19@ NevadaW 24-2173000
Sat 9/28@ UNLVL 14-5952000
Sun 9/22@ New Mexico10+ tacklesW 38-211612100
Sun 9/15vs New Mexico StateW 48-052000
Sun 9/8vs Sacramento State10+ tackles · Splash gameW 46-301182.5000
Sat 8/31@ MichiganL 10-3062000

Player Story

Tuasivi Nomura story

Tuasivi Nomura built his college career from 2019 through 2024 as a linebacker from Corona, CA wearing No. 8, spending time with Fresno State and USC. The clearest part of Tuasivi Nomura's career was his defensive production: 148 tackles, 10.5 tackles for loss, 1 sack, and 4 passes defended across 31 career games in the available record. That gives Tuasivi Nomura'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. 1

    USC

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Fresno State

    2023-2024

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20192020202120222023202320242024
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 Regular SeasonUSC0
2020 Regular SeasonUSC08.31.50
2021 Regular SeasonUSC010.52.10
2022 Regular SeasonUSC3.515.843.5
2023 PostseasonFresno State313.24.5-0.5
2023 Regular SeasonFresno State313.24.50
2024 PostseasonFresno State1040.38.87
2024 Regular SeasonFresno State1040.38.80

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Sacramento State

Week 2 · W 46-30

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

80.7 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 80.7 takeover score.

#2

vs Hawai'i

Week 10 · L 20-21 · Conference game

3.5

Havoc Plays

80 takeover

Loss with 3.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3.5 disruption/tackle impact with 80 takeover score.

#3

vs UNLV

Week 9 · W 31-24 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

78.9 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 78.9 takeover score.

#4

vs Colorado

Week 11 · W 55-17 · Conference game

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.

#5

@ Arizona

Week 9 · W 45-37 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

65.3 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 65.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Postseason · Fresno State

10 primary output · 40.3 efficiency · 8.8 usage

62.6

#2

2024 Regular Season · Fresno State

62.6

10 primary · 40.3 efficiency · 8.8 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · USC

42.7

0 primary · 10.5 efficiency · 2.1 usage

Milestones

7

Impact games

3

Splash games

4

10+ tackle games