Player Dossier

2019-2022

Indiana

Tiawan Mullen

DB • 5'10" • 181 lbs • Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Tiawan Mullen shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

56%

Regular defensive contributor

lowfeatured

Impact Production

71

High-end production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

68

Reliable weekly contributor

lowhigh

Star Power

78

High-upside career profile

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2020 Postseason · Indiana

191920202122

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Indiana
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Purdue

Player Story

Tiawan Mullen built his college career from 2019 through 2022 as a defensive back from Fort Lauderdale, FL wearing No. 3, spending time with Indiana. The clearest part of Tiawan Mullen's career was his defensive...

Read the story
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8819

Eastern View · Culpeper, VA

Committed To
Virginia Tech
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Tiawan Mullen, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2020 Postseason · Indiana. Tiawan Mullen shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 29.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
142
TFL
9
Sacks
3.5
QB hurries
1
Passes defended
27
Tiawan Mullen Indiana Highlights video thumbnail

Featured Highlight

Watch Tiawan Mullen on film

Tiawan Mullen Indiana Highlights

2022 · Indiana · Player Highlight

Tiawan Mullen college highlights at Indiana.

Season
2022
Type
Player highlight

Quick Answers

Tiawan Mullen quick answers

Latest team and position
Indiana · DB
Career Tackles
142
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 6 entries · 35 games
Best season
2020 Postseason · Indiana
Top game
Purdue
Recruit profile
3-star · Eastern View · Virginia Tech
High school pipeline
Eastern View · 2 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 3 · Senior
2022 Tackles rank
58 tackles · DB 85th (top 10%) · Big Ten 41st (top 7%) · National 412th (top 8%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2019 PostseasonIndiana104-0-1047
2019 Regular SeasonIndiana10243.50-12047
2020 PostseasonIndiana82-0--065.2
2020 Regular SeasonIndiana8354.53.513065.2
2021 Regular SeasonIndiana519-0-3018.7
2022 Regular SeasonIndiana125810-8049.7

Related Context

Tiawan Mullen played DB for Indiana. Across 4 tracked seasons, Tiawan Mullen recorded 142 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2022 with Indiana.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2020 Postseason

Indiana paired 15 primary output with 38 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 29.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2022 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Penn State

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 83.3th 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.

2022 Regular Season · Indiana

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.9

Efficiency

29.3

Usage

5.5

Consistency

57.5

Best Game by takeover score

Penn State

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.

123456789101112

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Illinois: 1. Idaho: 0. Western Kentucky: 0. Cincinnati: 1. Nebraska: 1. Michigan: 1. Maryland: 1. Rutgers: 0. Penn State: 1. Ohio State: 3. Michigan State: 0. Purdue: 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.

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. Illinois: 4 by 26.7. Idaho: 2 by 8.3. Western Kentucky: 7 by 29.2. Cincinnati: 6 by 35. Nebraska: 5 by 30.8. Michigan: 4 by 26.7. Maryland: 4 by 26.7. Rutgers: 2 by 8.3. Penn State: 8 by 43.3. Ohio State: 4 by 46.7. Michigan State: 8 by 33.3. Purdue: 4 by 36.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.3 · Games = 4 · -1 vs Losses
Losses1.3 · Games = 8 · +1 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

Penn State

Best efficiency game

46.7 vs Ohio State

Result
Sat 11/26vs PurdueSplash gameL 16-3043002
Sat 11/19@ Michigan StateW 39-3184000
Sat 11/12@ Ohio StateSplash gameL 14-5642003
Sat 11/5vs Penn StateL 14-45840010
Sat 10/22@ RutgersL 17-2422000
Sat 10/15vs MarylandL 33-3843001
Sat 10/8vs MichiganL 10-3143100
Sat 10/1@ NebraskaL 21-3553001
Sat 9/24@ CincinnatiL 24-45650010
Sat 9/17vs Western KentuckyW 33-3077000
Sun 9/11vs IdahoW 35-2221000
Sat 9/3vs IllinoisW 23-2041001

Player Story

Tiawan Mullen story

Tiawan Mullen built his college career from 2019 through 2022 as a defensive back from Fort Lauderdale, FL wearing No. 3, spending time with Indiana. The clearest part of Tiawan Mullen's career was his defensive production: 142 tackles, 9 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, and 5 interceptions across 35 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2022 with Indiana. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Tiawan Mullen's production has multiple signals. With 35 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Indiana.

The arc is straightforward: Tiawan Mullen moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Indiana

    2019-2022

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

201920192020202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2019 PostseasonIndiana16.526.74.1
2019 Regular SeasonIndiana16.526.74.10
2020 PostseasonIndiana153810.1-1.5
2020 Regular SeasonIndiana153810.10
2021 Regular SeasonIndiana321.83.4-12
2022 Regular SeasonIndiana1129.35.58

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Purdue

Week 14 · W 44-41 · Conference game

Win with 6.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

6.5

Havoc Plays

94.4 takeover

6.5 disruption/tackle impact with 94.4 takeover score.

#2

@ Rutgers

Week 9 · W 37-21 · Conference game

5

Havoc Plays

91.7 takeover

Win with backfield disruption leading the way.

5 disruption/tackle impact with 91.7 takeover score.

#3

@ Wisconsin

Week 14 · W 14-6 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

68.9 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 68.9 takeover score.

#4

vs Penn State

Week 10 · L 14-45 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

58.9 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 58.9 takeover score.

#5

@ Ohio State

Week 11 · L 14-56 · Conference game

3

Havoc Plays

56.7 takeover

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 56.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2020 Postseason · Indiana

15 primary output · 38 efficiency · 10.1 usage

65.2

#2

2020 Regular Season · Indiana

65.2

15 primary · 38 efficiency · 10.1 usage

#3

2022 Regular Season · Indiana

49.7

11 primary · 29.3 efficiency · 5.5 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

9

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games