Player Dossier

2024-2025

Texas

Zina Umeozulu

LB • 6'5" • 262 lbs • Allen, TX, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Zina Umeozulu shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.3 disruption score.

Usage / Role

67%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

100

Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

86

Elite ceiling indicators

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Texas

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Texas
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Michigan

Player Story

Zina Umeozulu built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Allen, TX wearing No. 19, spending time with Texas. The clearest part of Zina Umeozulu's career was his defensive production: 13...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.9294

Allen · Allen, TX

Committed To
Texas
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Zina Umeozulu, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Texas. Zina Umeozulu shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.3 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
13
TFL
3
Sacks
2
QB hurries
1

Quick Answers

Zina Umeozulu quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas · LB
Career Tackles
13
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 8 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Texas
Top game
Michigan
Recruit profile
4-star · Allen · Texas
High school pipeline
Allen · 76 FBS recruits · 7 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 19 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
13 tackles · LB 685th (top 54%) · SEC 323rd (top 43%) · National 2,660th (top 43%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonTexas00-0--0-
2025 PostseasonTexas8411--047.2
2025 Regular SeasonTexas89211-047.2

Related Context

Zina Umeozulu played LB for Texas. Across 2 tracked seasons, Zina Umeozulu recorded 13 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Texas.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Texas paired 6 primary output with 14.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 14.3 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: Michigan

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Postseason · Texas

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.8

Efficiency

14.3

Usage

4.3

Consistency

38.9

Best Game by takeover score

Michigan

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Michigan: 2. Ohio State: 0. San José State: 1. UTEP: 2. Florida: 0. Oklahoma: 0. Kentucky: 1. Vanderbilt: 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. Michigan: 4 by 36.7. Ohio State: 2 by 8.3. San José State: 0 by 10. UTEP: 1 by 24.2. Florida: 2 by 8.3. Oklahoma: 2 by 8.3. Kentucky: 1 by 14.2. Vanderbilt: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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Wins1 · Games = 6 · +1 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -1 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

Michigan

Best efficiency game

36.7 vs Michigan

Result
Wed 12/31vs MichiganSplash gameW 41-2742110
Sat 11/1vs VanderbiltW 34-3110000
Sat 10/18@ KentuckyW 16-1311100
Sat 10/11vs OklahomaW 23-620000
Sat 10/4@ FloridaL 21-2920000
Sat 9/13vs UTEPSplash gameW 27-1011110
Sat 9/6vs San José StateW 38-700000
Sat 8/30@ Ohio StateL 7-1420000

Player Story

Zina Umeozulu story

Zina Umeozulu built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a linebacker from Allen, TX wearing No. 19, spending time with Texas. The clearest part of Zina Umeozulu's career was his defensive production: 13 tackles, 3 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 8 career games in the available record. That gives Zina Umeozulu's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Texas

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonTexas0
2025 PostseasonTexas614.34.36
2025 Regular SeasonTexas614.34.30

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 25 Michigan

Week 1 · W 41-27 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

75.3 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 75.3 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 129 UTEP

Week 3 · W 27-10

2

Havoc Plays

71.4 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.4 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 118 San José State

Week 2 · W 38-7

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Havoc Plays

31.7 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 31.7 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 66 Kentucky

Week 8 · W 16-13 · Conference game

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Havoc Plays

30.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 30.6 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 14 Oklahoma

Week 7 · W 23-6 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

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Havoc Plays

7.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Texas

6 primary output · 14.3 efficiency · 4.3 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Texas

47.2

6 primary · 14.3 efficiency · 4.3 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Texas

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

2

Impact games

2

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games