Usage / Role
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Rotational offensive role
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Player Dossier
2010-2011Utah
Tauni Vakapuna
RB • 5'9" • North Salt Lake, UT, USA
Balanced backfield optionSteady chain mover
Tauni Vakapuna leans balanced backfield option traits and 34.1 efficiency.
Impact Production
23
Developing production for a back
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Reliability
21
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
35
Limited ceiling signals so far
limitedstar
Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2011 Regular Season · Utah
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Utah
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Colorado
Player Story
Tauni Vakapuna built his college career from 2010 through 2011 as a running back from North Salt Lake, UT wearing No. 24, spending time with Utah. The clearest part of Tauni Vakapuna's career was his backfield work:...
Read the storyTauni Vakapuna, RB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2011 Regular Season · Utah. Tauni Vakapuna leans balanced backfield option traits and 34.1 efficiency.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Scrimmage yards
- 178
- Rushing yards
- 183
- Touchdowns
- 3
Quick Answers
Tauni Vakapuna quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Utah · RB
- Career Scrimmage Yards
- 178
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 9 games
- Best season
- 2011 Regular Season · Utah
- Top game
- Colorado
- Latest roster
- No. 24 · Class 2011
- 2011 Scrimmage yards rank
- 104 scrimmage yards · RB 320th (top 69%) · Pac-12 117th (top 54%) · National 1,176th (top 56%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Scrimmage | Rush Yds | Rec Yds | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 Postseason | Utah | 5 | -5 | 0 | -5 | 0 | 37.5 |
| 2010 Regular Season | Utah | 5 | 79 | 79 | 0 | 2 | 37.5 |
| 2011 Regular Season | Utah | 4 | 104 | 104 | 0 | 1 | 49.9 |
Related Context
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Tauni Vakapuna played RB for Utah. Across 2 tracked seasons, Tauni Vakapuna recorded 183 rushing yards, -5 receiving yards, and 3 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2011 with Utah.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2011 Regular Season
Utah paired 104 primary output with 34.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
2011 Regular Season role shape
backfield-heavy usage with 34.1 efficiency.
Supporting note
Career value is trending up
2011 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Colorado
Loss with 77 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2011 Regular Season · Utah
Games
4
Scrimmage Yards / G
26
Efficiency
34.1
Usage
15
Consistency
22.4
Best Game by takeover score
Colorado
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Montana State: 16. BYU: 6. Arizona State: 5. Colorado: 77
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. Montana State: 10 by 16.7. BYU: 6 by 10.4. Arizona State: 1 by 52.1. Colorado: 14 by 57.3
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins11 · Games = 2 · -30 vs Losses
Losses41 · Games = 2 · +30 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
4 games
Featured metric
Scrimmage Yards
Top game by takeover score
Colorado
Best efficiency game
57.3 vs Colorado
Player Story
Tauni Vakapuna story
Tauni Vakapuna built his college career from 2010 through 2011 as a running back from North Salt Lake, UT wearing No. 24, spending time with Utah. The clearest part of Tauni Vakapuna's career was his backfield work: 183 rushing yards, 50 carries, and 3 rushing touchdowns across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Tauni Vakapuna's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Utah
2010-2011
Opening stop
Season Value Progression
201020102011
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 Postseason | Utah | 74 | 30.8 | 7.4 | — |
| 2010 Regular Season | Utah | 74 | 30.8 | 7.4 | 0 |
| 2011 Regular Season | Utah | 104 | 34.1 | 15 | 30 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Colorado
Week 13 · L 14-17 · Conference game
Loss with 77 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
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Scrimmage Yards
78.6 takeover
77 scrimmage yards and 27.5 usage.
#2
@ New Mexico
Week 3 · W 56-14 · Conference game
43
Scrimmage Yards
67 takeover
Win with 43 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
43 scrimmage yards and 13 usage.
#3
vs San José State
Week 4 · W 56-3
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Scrimmage Yards
43.4 takeover
Win with 25 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
25 scrimmage yards and 13.8 usage.
#4
vs Montana State
Week 1 · W 27-10
16
Scrimmage Yards
30.8 takeover
Win with 16 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
16 scrimmage yards and 19.2 usage.
#5
vs Arizona State
Week 6 · L 14-35 · Conference game
5
Scrimmage Yards
21.5 takeover
Loss with 5 yards from scrimmage and efficient touch value.
5 scrimmage yards and 2.1 usage.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2011 Regular Season · Utah
104 primary output · 34.1 efficiency · 15 usage
49.9
#2
2010 Postseason · Utah
37.5
74 primary · 30.8 efficiency · 7.4 usage
#3
2010 Regular Season · Utah
37.5
74 primary · 30.8 efficiency · 7.4 usage
Milestones
0
100+ rush yards
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150+ scrimmage yards
0
2+ TD games
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