Player Dossier

2021-2025

Hawai'i

Kilinahe Mendiola-Jensen

DB • 6'1" • 170 lbs • Pearl City, HI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kilinahe Mendiola-Jensen shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22 disruption score.

Usage Score

6.4

Efficiency

22

Consistency

13.9

Season Value

12.3

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · UNLV

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Seasons Tracked
6
Program Path
UNLV • Hawai'i
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Stanford

Scouting Read

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Kilinahe Mendiola-Jensen, DB. Best season Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · UNLV. Kilinahe Mendiola-Jensen shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 22 disruption score.

Kilinahe Mendiola-Jensen played DB for UNLV and Hawai'i. Across 5 tracked seasons, Kilinahe Mendiola-Jensen recorded 99 receiving yards and 90 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2021 with UNLV.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

UNLV paired 0 primary output with 9.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 22 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 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 UNLV, Hawai'i.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Stanford

Win with 3 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 · Hawai'i

Games

12

Havoc Plays / G

0.6

Efficiency

22

Usage

6.4

Consistency

13.9

Best Game by takeover score

California

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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. California: 0. Arizona: 0. Stanford: 3. Sam Houston: 1. Unknown: 0. Fresno State: 0. Utah State: 0. Colorado State: 1. San José State: 1. San Diego State: 1. UNLV: 0. Wyoming: 0

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. California: 6 by 25. Arizona: 4 by 16.7. Stanford: 4 by 46.7. Sam Houston: 2 by 18.3. Unknown: 1 by 4.2. Fresno State: 3 by 12.5. Utah State: 4 by 16.7. Colorado State: 4 by 26.7. San José State: 5 by 30.8. UNLV: 10 by 41.7. Wyoming: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.9 · Games = 7 · +0.6 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 4 · -0.6 vs Wins
First Half0.7 · Games = 6 · +0.2 vs Second Half
Second Half0.5 · Games = 6 · -0.2 vs First Half

Game Log

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

12 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Stanford

Best efficiency game

46.7 vs Stanford

Result
Thu 12/25vs CaliforniaW 35-3162000
Sun 11/30vs WyomingW 27-711000
Sat 11/22@ UNLV10+ tacklesL 10-38103000
Sun 11/9vs San Diego StateW 38-61
Sun 11/2@ San José StateL 38-4554001
Sat 10/18@ Colorado StateW 31-1941001
Sun 10/12vs Utah StateW 44-2644000
Sun 9/21vs Fresno StateL 21-2333000
Sun 9/14vs Unknown11000
Sun 9/7vs Sam HoustonW 37-2022001
Sun 8/31@ ArizonaL 6-4042000
Sat 8/23vs StanfordW 23-20430012

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    UNLV

    2021-2022

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Hawai'i

    2023-2025

    Final stop

Season Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2021 Regular SeasonUNLV01.40.2
2022 Regular SeasonUNLV09.21.50
2023 Regular SeasonHawai'i04.210
2024 Regular SeasonHawai'i515.62.95
2025 PostseasonHawai'i7226.42
2025 Regular SeasonHawai'i7226.40

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Stanford

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Primary metric

3 disruption/tackle impact with 55.5 takeover score.

#2

Nevada

3

Primary metric

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 49.9 takeover score.

#3

San José State

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 24.9 takeover score.

#4

San Diego State

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 24.4 takeover score.

#5

Utah State

1

Primary metric

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 22.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2022 Regular Season · UNLV

0 primary output · 9.2 efficiency · 1.5 usage

36.9

#2

2023 Regular Season · Hawai'i

35.1

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 1 usage

#3

2021 Regular Season · UNLV

33.9

0 primary · 1.4 efficiency · 0.2 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

1

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

3★

Class 2021 · Rating 0.8215

Punahou · Honolulu, HI

Committed To
UNLV
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2021

Career Facts

2

Career teams

6

Seasons tracked

90

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 6 tracked seasons, 33 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.