Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2023 Regular Season
New Mexico paired 5 primary output with 46.7 efficiency.
Player Stats
Tavian Combs College Stats
Career production, season-by-season totals, and the selected-season workbench are grouped here for stat-first searches.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 261
- TFL
- 5.5
- Sacks
- 1
- QB hurries
- 1
- Passes defended
- 11
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Regular Season | New Mexico | 7 | 50 | 0.5 | 0.5 | - | 1 | 0 | 28.5 |
| 2021 Regular Season | New Mexico | 10 | 77 | 1.5 | 0 | - | 5 | 0 | 53.4 |
| 2022 Regular Season | New Mexico | 3 | 16 | - | 0 | - | 1 | 0 | 21.2 |
| 2023 Regular Season | New Mexico | 5 | 46 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 69.4 |
| 2024 Regular Season | New Mexico | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Postseason | New Mexico | 13 | 4 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 38.1 |
| 2025 Regular Season | New Mexico | 13 | 68 | 0.5 | 0.5 | - | 3 | 0 | 38.1 |
Player insights
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 26.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value stayed steady
2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: UCLA
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
Analysis workspace
Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2025 Postseason · New Mexico
Games
13
Havoc Plays / G
0.4
Efficiency
26.9
Usage
6.5
Consistency
12.8
Best Game by takeover score
UCLA
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Active game
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Minnesota: 0. Michigan: 0. Idaho State: 0. UCLA: 1. New Mexico State: 1. San José State: 0. Boise State: 0. Nevada: 0. Utah State: 0. UNLV: 1. Colorado State: 1. Air Force: 0. San Diego State: 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. Minnesota: 4 by 16.7. Michigan: 9 by 37.5. Idaho State: 2 by 8.3. UCLA: 5 by 30.8. New Mexico State: 3 by 22.5. San José State: 5 by 20.8. Boise State: 6 by 25. Nevada: 5 by 20.8. Utah State: 6 by 25. UNLV: 4 by 26.7. Colorado State: 8 by 43.3. Air Force: 3 by 12.5. San Diego State: 12 by 60
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins0.6 · Games = 9 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 4 · -0.6 vs Wins
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