Player Dossier

2022-2025

Rice

Chibby Nwajuaku

DL • 6'2" • 239 lbs • Cypress, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Chibby Nwajuaku shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

21%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

21

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

25

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Rice

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
4
Program Path
Rice
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UAB

Player Story

Chibby Nwajuaku built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Cypress, TX wearing No. 16, spending time with Rice. The clearest part of Chibby Nwajuaku's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8259

Cy Ranch · Cypress, TX

Committed To
Rice
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Chibby Nwajuaku, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Rice. Chibby Nwajuaku shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
34
TFL
4
Sacks
2
QB hurries
2

Quick Answers

Chibby Nwajuaku quick answers

Latest team and position
Rice · DL
Career Tackles
34
Tracked sample
4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 14 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Rice
Top game
UAB
Recruit profile
3-star · Cy Ranch · Rice
High school pipeline
Cy Ranch · 27 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 16 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
25 tackles · DL 245th (top 23%) · American Athletic 170th (top 27%) · National 1,680th (top 28%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2022 Regular SeasonRice10-0--033.3
2023 Regular SeasonRice120.50--040.5
2024 Regular SeasonRice270.50--026.2
2025 PostseasonRice103-0--052.3
2025 Regular SeasonRice1022322-052.3

Related Context

Chibby Nwajuaku played DL for Rice. Across 4 tracked seasons, Chibby Nwajuaku recorded 34 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Rice.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Rice paired 7 primary output with 17.4 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 17.4 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: UAB

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 · Rice

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.7

Efficiency

17.4

Usage

6.2

Consistency

40.5

Best Game by takeover score

UAB

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Texas State: 0. Houston: 0. Prairie View A&M: 1. Charlotte: 1. Navy: 1. Florida Atlantic: 0. UTSA: 0. UConn: 0. UAB: 3. South Florida: 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 versus efficiency scatter chart. Texas State: 3 by 12.5. Houston: 2 by 8.3. Prairie View A&M: 1 by 14.2. Charlotte: 1 by 14.2. Navy: 3 by 22.5. Florida Atlantic: 3 by 12.5. UTSA: 1 by 4.2. UConn: 3 by 12.5. UAB: 4 by 46.7. South Florida: 4 by 26.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins1.3 · Games = 4 · +0.9 vs Losses
Losses0.3 · Games = 6 · -0.9 vs Wins

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UAB

Best efficiency game

46.7 vs UAB

Result
Fri 1/2@ Texas StateL 10-4131000
Sun 11/30@ South FloridaL 3-5240100
Sat 11/8vs UABSplash gameW 24-17421.501.500
Sat 10/25vs UConnW 37-3430000
Sat 10/11@ UTSAL 13-6111000
Sat 10/4vs Florida AtlanticL 21-2730000
Sat 9/27@ NavyL 13-2132000
Thu 9/18@ CharlotteW 28-1711000
Sat 9/13vs Prairie View A&MW 38-17100.500.500
Sat 9/6vs HoustonL 9-3520000

Player Story

Chibby Nwajuaku story

Chibby Nwajuaku built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Cypress, TX wearing No. 16, spending time with Rice. The clearest part of Chibby Nwajuaku's career was his defensive production: 34 tackles, 4 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 14 career games in the available record. That gives Chibby Nwajuaku's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Rice

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20222023202420252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonRice000
2023 Regular SeasonRice0.513.350.5
2024 Regular SeasonRice0.517.13.70
2025 PostseasonRice717.46.26.5
2025 Regular SeasonRice717.46.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 125 UAB

Week 11 · W 24-17 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

82.2 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 82.2 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 29 South Florida

Week 14 · L 3-52 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

53.3 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.3 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 46 Navy

Week 5 · L 13-21 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

51.9 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 51.9 takeover score.

#4

vs Texas Southern

Week 2 · W 69-7

0.5

Havoc Plays

41.1 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 41.1 takeover score.

#5

vs Texas Southern

Week 3 · W 59-7

0.5

Havoc Plays

35 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 35 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Rice

7 primary output · 17.4 efficiency · 6.2 usage

52.3

#2

2025 Regular Season · Rice

52.3

7 primary · 17.4 efficiency · 6.2 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Rice

40.5

0.5 primary · 13.3 efficiency · 5 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games