Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2021-2025Notre Dame
Kahanu Kia
LB • 6'2" • 229 lbs • Kaneohe, HI, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Kahanu Kia shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.5 disruption score.
Impact Production
13
Developing production for a linebacker
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Reliability
13
Sporadic game-to-game production
lowhigh
Star Power
25
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Notre Dame
212425
Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Notre Dame
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Georgia
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- Committed To
- Notre Dame
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2021
Kahanu Kia, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Notre Dame. Kahanu Kia shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 7.5 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 17
- TFL
- 0.5
Quick Answers
Kahanu Kia quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Notre Dame · LB
- Career Tackles
- 17
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 10 games
- Best season
- 2024 Postseason · Notre Dame
- Top game
- Georgia
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Punahou · Notre Dame
- High school pipeline
- Punahou · 52 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 43 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 9 tackles · LB 781st (top 62%) · FBS Independents 47th (top 52%) · National 3,055th (top 50%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 4 | 7 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 39.3 |
| 2024 Postseason | Notre Dame | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | - | - | 0 | 45.4 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 5 | 9 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 39.6 |
Related Context
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Kahanu Kia played LB for Notre Dame. Across 3 tracked seasons, Kahanu Kia recorded 17 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Notre Dame.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2024 Postseason
Notre Dame paired 0.5 primary output with 9.2 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 7.5 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value cooled off
2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Syracuse
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
0
Efficiency
7.5
Usage
1.4
Consistency
100
Best Game by takeover score
Syracuse
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Miami: 0. Texas A&M: 0. Purdue: 0. Navy: 0. Syracuse: 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. Miami: 1 by 4.2. Texas A&M: 1 by 4.2. Purdue: 1 by 4.2. Navy: 1 by 4.2. Syracuse: 5 by 20.8
Split Comparison
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Wins0 · Games = 3 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Wins
Game Log
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5 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Syracuse
Best efficiency game
20.8 vs Syracuse
Career Arc
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Notre Dame
2021-2025
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
202120242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 0 | 7.3 | 1.3 | — |
| 2024 Postseason | Notre Dame | 0.5 | 9.2 | 2.7 | 0.5 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 0 | 7.5 | 1.4 | -0.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Georgia
Week 1 · W 23-10 · Postseason
Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0.5
Havoc Plays
27.2 takeover
0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 27.2 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 115 Syracuse
Week 13 · W 70-7
0
Havoc Plays
16.4 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 16.4 takeover score.
#3
vs Navy
Week 10 · W 34-6
0
Havoc Plays
13.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 13.9 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 46 Navy
Week 11 · W 49-10
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 90 Purdue
Week 4 · W 56-30
0
Havoc Plays
3.9 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.9 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2024 Postseason · Notre Dame
0.5 primary output · 9.2 efficiency · 2.7 usage
45.4
#2
2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame
39.6
0 primary · 7.5 efficiency · 1.4 usage
#3
2021 Regular Season · Notre Dame
39.3
0 primary · 7.3 efficiency · 1.3 usage
Milestones
0
Impact games
0
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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