Player Dossier

2022-2025

Middle Tennessee

Mathias Malaki-Donaldson

LB • 6'3" • 232 lbs • Baldwin Park, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Mathias Malaki-Donaldson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.9 disruption score.

Usage / Role

9%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

26

Developing production for a linebacker

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Reliability

29

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

37

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Oregon State • Middle Tennessee
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Sam Houston
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.887

Oaks Christian · Westlake Village, CA

Committed To
Oregon State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Mathias Malaki-Donaldson, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee. Mathias Malaki-Donaldson shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 9.9 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
7
TFL
2

Quick Answers

Mathias Malaki-Donaldson quick answers

Latest team and position
Middle Tennessee · LB
Career Tackles
7
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 5 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee
Top game
Sam Houston
Recruit profile
3-star · Oaks Christian · Oregon State
High school pipeline
Oaks Christian · 36 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 31 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
7 tackles · LB 848th (top 67%) · Conference USA 297th (top 54%) · National 3,336th (top 54%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonOregon State00-0--0-
2023 Regular SeasonOregon State00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee5720--036.5

Related Context

Mathias Malaki-Donaldson played LB for Oregon State and Middle Tennessee. Across 3 tracked seasons, Mathias Malaki-Donaldson recorded 7 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Middle Tennessee.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Middle Tennessee paired 2 primary output with 9.9 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 9.9 efficiency.

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Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

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Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Oregon State, Middle Tennessee.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Sam Houston

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

Games

5

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

9.9

Usage

2.8

Consistency

13.3

Best Game by takeover score

Sam Houston

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Austin Peay: 0. Nevada: 1. Missouri State: 0. Florida International: 0. Sam Houston: 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. Austin Peay: 1 by 4.2. Nevada: 1 by 14.2. Missouri State: 1 by 4.2. Florida International: 1 by 4.2. Sam Houston: 3 by 22.5

Split Comparison

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

Wins1 · Games = 2 · +1 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · -1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

5 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Sam Houston

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs Sam Houston

Result
Sat 11/22vs Sam HoustonW 31-1731100
Sat 11/8vs Florida InternationalL 30-5610000
Wed 10/8vs Missouri StateL 20-2211000
Sat 9/13@ NevadaW 14-1311100
Sat 8/30vs Austin PeayL 14-3410000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Oregon State

    2022-2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Middle Tennessee

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

202220232025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonOregon State0
2023 Regular SeasonOregon State00
2025 Regular SeasonMiddle Tennessee29.92.82

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 135 Sam Houston

Week 13 · W 31-17 · Conference game

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

57.2 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 57.2 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 116 Nevada

Week 3 · W 14-13

1

Havoc Plays

53.1 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.1 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 108 Missouri State

Week 7 · L 20-22 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 107 Florida International

Week 11 · L 30-56 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.6 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.6 takeover score.

#5

vs Austin Peay

Week 1 · L 14-34

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Middle Tennessee

2 primary output · 9.9 efficiency · 2.8 usage

36.5

#2

2022 Regular Season · Oregon State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Oregon State

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games