Player Dossier

2023-2025

Arizona

Julian Savaiinaea

DL • 6'3" • 267 lbs • Honolulu, HI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Julian Savaiinaea shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

17%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

32

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

16

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

59

Useful peak profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Arizona

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
3
Program Path
Arizona
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Oklahoma State

Player Story

Julian Savaiinaea built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Honolulu, HI wearing No. 41, spending time with Arizona. The clearest part of Julian Savaiinaea's career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8781

St. Louis School · Honolulu, HI

Committed To
Arizona
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Julian Savaiinaea, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Arizona. Julian Savaiinaea shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 12.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
21
TFL
3
Sacks
2
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Julian Savaiinaea quick answers

Latest team and position
Arizona · DL
Career Tackles
21
Tracked sample
3 unique seasons · 3 entries · 11 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Arizona
Top game
Oklahoma State
Recruit profile
3-star · St. Louis School · Arizona
High school pipeline
St. Louis · 46 FBS recruits · 3 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 41 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
18 tackles · DL 410th (top 38%) · Big 12 258th (top 36%) · National 2,208th (top 36%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonArizona00-0--0-
2024 Regular SeasonArizona2311--040.1
2025 Regular SeasonArizona918211-037.2

Related Context

Julian Savaiinaea played DL for Arizona. Across 3 tracked seasons, Julian Savaiinaea recorded 21 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Arizona.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Arizona paired 2 primary output with 16.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 12.8 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: Oklahoma State

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Arizona

Games

9

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

12.8

Usage

3

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Hawai'i: 0. Weber State: 0.5. Iowa State: 0. Oklahoma State: 2.5. BYU: 0. Houston: 0. Colorado: 1. Kansas: 0. Arizona State: 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. Hawai'i: 2 by 8.3. Weber State: 2 by 13.3. Iowa State: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma State: 3 by 37.5. BYU: 1 by 4.2. Houston: 2 by 8.3. Colorado: 4 by 26.7. Kansas: 1 by 4.2. Arizona State: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.7 · Games = 6 · +0.7 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 3 · -0.7 vs Wins

Game Log

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

9 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Oklahoma State

Best efficiency game

37.5 vs Oklahoma State

Result
Sat 11/29@ Arizona StateW 23-710000
Sat 11/8vs KansasW 24-2011000
Sat 11/1@ ColoradoW 52-1742000
Sat 10/18@ HoustonL 28-3122000
Sun 10/12vs BYUL 27-3310000
Sat 10/4vs Oklahoma StateSplash gameW 41-13321.5010
Sat 9/27@ Iowa StateL 14-3921000
Sun 9/7vs Weber StateW 48-3200.5000
Sun 8/31vs Hawai'iW 40-621000

Player Story

Julian Savaiinaea story

Julian Savaiinaea built his college career from 2023 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Honolulu, HI wearing No. 41, spending time with Arizona. The clearest part of Julian Savaiinaea's career was his defensive production: 21 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 11 career games in the available record. That gives Julian Savaiinaea's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Arizona

    2023-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

202320242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonArizona0
2024 Regular SeasonArizona216.35.32
2025 Regular SeasonArizona412.832

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 121 Oklahoma State

Week 6 · W 41-13 · Conference game

Win with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5

Havoc Plays

73.9 takeover

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 73.9 takeover score.

#2

@ TCU

Week 13 · L 28-49 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

70.5 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 70.5 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 96 Colorado

Week 10 · W 52-17 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

38.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 38.6 takeover score.

#4

vs Weber State

Week 2 · W 48-3

0.5

Havoc Plays

23.3 takeover

Win with 0.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0.5 disruption/tackle impact with 23.3 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 33 Iowa State

Week 5 · L 14-39 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

6.9 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Arizona

2 primary output · 16.3 efficiency · 5.3 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Arizona

37.2

4 primary · 12.8 efficiency · 3 usage

#3

2023 Regular Season · Arizona

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games