Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2023-2025BYU
Tausili Akana
DE • 6'3" • 235 lbs • Laie, HI, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Tausili Akana shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.7 disruption score.
Impact Production
7
Developing production for an edge defender
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Reliability
15
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
19
Limited ceiling signals so far
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · BYU
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 3
- Program Path
- Texas • BYU
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: TCU
Player Story
Tausili Akana built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive end from Laie, HI wearing No. 13, spending time with BYU and Texas. The clearest part of Tausili Akana's career was his defensive...
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- Committed To
- Texas
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2023
Tausili Akana, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · BYU. Tausili Akana shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 17.7 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 11
- TFL
- 3.5
- Sacks
- 0.5
- QB hurries
- 6
Quick Answers
Tausili Akana quick answers
- Latest team and position
- BYU · DE
- Career Tackles
- 11
- Tracked sample
- 3 unique seasons · 4 entries · 9 games
- Best season
- 2025 Postseason · BYU
- Top game
- TCU
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Skyridge · Texas
- High school pipeline
- Skyridge · 11 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 13 · Sophomore
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 10 tackles · DE 166th (top 59%) · Big 12 358th (top 49%) · National 2,985th (top 49%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Texas | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2024 Regular Season | Texas | 1 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 36.7 |
| 2025 Postseason | BYU | 8 | 1 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 53.6 |
| 2025 Regular Season | BYU | 8 | 9 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 6 | - | 0 | 53.6 |
Related Context
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Tausili Akana played DE for Texas and BYU. Across 3 tracked seasons, Tausili Akana recorded 11 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with BYU.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason
BYU paired 10 primary output with 17.7 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Postseason role shape
impact-led usage with 17.7 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 Texas, BYU.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: TCU
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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Season Workbench
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Season Explorer
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2025 Postseason · BYU
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
1.3
Efficiency
17.7
Usage
5.9
Consistency
47.5
Best Game by takeover score
TCU
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Georgia Tech: 0. Arizona: 1. Utah: 1. Iowa State: 1. Texas Tech: 0. TCU: 4. UCF: 3. Texas Tech: 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. Georgia Tech: 1 by 4.2. Arizona: 0 by 10. Utah: 1 by 14.2. Iowa State: 0 by 10. Texas Tech: 2 by 8.3. TCU: 4 by 56.7. UCF: 1 by 34.2. Texas Tech: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
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Wins1.7 · Games = 6 · +1.7 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -1.7 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
8 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
TCU
Best efficiency game
56.7 vs TCU
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 12/27 | vs Georgia Tech | W 25-21 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 12/6 | @ Texas Tech | L 7-34 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/29 | vs UCFSplash game | W 41-21 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/16 | vs TCUSplash game | W 44-13 | 4 | 3 | — | 2.50 | 0.50 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/8 | @ Texas Tech | L 7-29 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/25 | @ Iowa State | W 41-27 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 10/19 | vs Utah | W 24-21 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 10/12 | @ Arizona | W 33-27 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Tausili Akana story
Tausili Akana built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive end from Laie, HI wearing No. 13, spending time with BYU and Texas. The clearest part of Tausili Akana's career was his defensive production: 11 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, and 0.5 sacks across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Tausili Akana's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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- 1
Texas
2023-2024
Opening stop
- 2
BYU
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
2023202420252025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Regular Season | Texas | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2024 Regular Season | Texas | 0 | 4.2 | 0.7 | 0 |
| 2025 Postseason | BYU | 10 | 17.7 | 5.9 | 10 |
| 2025 Regular Season | BYU | 10 | 17.7 | 5.9 | 0 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs No. 37 TCU
Week 12 · W 44-13 · Conference game
Win with 4 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
4
Havoc Plays
85.6 takeover
4 disruption/tackle impact with 85.6 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 76 UCF
Week 14 · W 41-21 · Conference game
3
Havoc Plays
61.4 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 61.4 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 28 Arizona
Week 7 · W 33-27 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
34.7 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 34.7 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 8 Utah
Week 8 · W 24-21 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
1
Havoc Plays
23.9 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 23.9 takeover score.
#5
@ No. 33 Iowa State
Week 9 · W 41-27 · Conference game
1
Havoc Plays
21.7 takeover
Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
1 disruption/tackle impact with 21.7 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Postseason · BYU
10 primary output · 17.7 efficiency · 5.9 usage
53.6
#2
2025 Regular Season · BYU
53.6
10 primary · 17.7 efficiency · 5.9 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Texas
36.7
0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.7 usage
Milestones
2
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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