Player Dossier

2023-2025

Wake Forest

Rushaun Tongue

DB • 6'1" • 193 lbs • Pasadena, MD, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Rushaun Tongue shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.4 disruption score.

Usage / Role

4%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

29

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

31

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

34

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Wake Forest
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Virginia

Player Story

Rushaun Tongue built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Pasadena, MD wearing No. 6, spending time with Wake Forest. The clearest part of Rushaun Tongue's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2023 · Rating 0.8697

Chesapeake Sr. · Pasadena, MD

Committed To
Wake Forest
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2023

Rushaun Tongue, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest. Rushaun Tongue shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 13.4 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
39
TFL
1
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Rushaun Tongue quick answers

Latest team and position
Wake Forest · DB
Career Tackles
39
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 13 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest
Top game
Virginia
Recruit profile
3-star · Chesapeake Sr. · Wake Forest
High school pipeline
Chesapeake Sr. · 1 FBS recruit · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 6 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · DB 756th (top 78%) · ACC 500th (top 63%) · National 3,956th (top 64%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonWake Forest11-0--037.2
2024 Regular SeasonWake Forest103410--037.6
2025 Regular SeasonWake Forest24-0-1031.5

Related Context

Rushaun Tongue played DB for Wake Forest. Across 3 tracked seasons, Rushaun Tongue recorded 39 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Wake Forest.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Wake Forest paired 2 primary output with 16.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 13.4 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: Kennesaw State

Win with 1 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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2025 Regular Season · Wake Forest

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0.5

Efficiency

13.4

Usage

1.5

Consistency

50

Best Game by takeover score

Kennesaw State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Kennesaw State: 1. Western Carolina: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Split Comparison

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First Half1 · Games = 1 · +1 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · -1 vs First Half

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Kennesaw State

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs Kennesaw State

Result
Sat 9/6vs Western CarolinaW 42-1010000
Fri 8/29vs Kennesaw StateW 10-932001

Player Story

Rushaun Tongue story

Rushaun Tongue built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive back from Pasadena, MD wearing No. 6, spending time with Wake Forest. The clearest part of Rushaun Tongue's career was his defensive production: 39 tackles, 1 tackle for loss, 1 interception, and 1 pass defended across 13 career games in the available record. That gives Rushaun Tongue's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Wake Forest

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonWake Forest04.20.9
2024 Regular SeasonWake Forest216.23.32
2025 Regular SeasonWake Forest113.41.5-1

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Virginia

Week 2 · L 30-31 · Conference game

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

68.3 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 68.3 takeover score.

#2

vs Duke

Week 14 · L 17-23 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

62.2 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 62.2 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 89 Kennesaw State

Week 1 · W 10-9

1

Havoc Plays

47.5 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 47.5 takeover score.

#4

@ UConn

Week 8 · W 23-20

0

Havoc Plays

21.4 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 21.4 takeover score.

#5

vs North Carolina A&T

Week 1 · W 45-13

0

Havoc Plays

19.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 19.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Wake Forest

2 primary output · 16.2 efficiency · 3.3 usage

37.6

#2

2023 Regular Season · Wake Forest

37.2

0 primary · 4.2 efficiency · 0.9 usage

#3

2025 Regular Season · Wake Forest

31.5

1 primary · 13.4 efficiency · 1.5 usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games