Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Notre Dame
Junior Tuihalamaka
DL • 6'2" • 260 lbs • Granada Hills, CA, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
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Impact Production
58
Solid production for a defensive lineman
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Reliability
56
Useful contributor with volatile peaks
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Star Power
66
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Notre Dame
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Georgia
Player Story
Junior Tuihalamaka built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Granada Hills, CA wearing No. 44, spending time with Notre Dame. The clearest part of Junior Tuihalamaka's career was his...
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- Committed To
- Notre Dame
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
Junior Tuihalamaka, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame. Junior Tuihalamaka shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 20.6 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 59
- TFL
- 9.5
- Sacks
- 4
- QB hurries
- 9
- Passes defended
- 2
Quick Answers
Junior Tuihalamaka quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Notre Dame · DL
- Career Tackles
- 59
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 29 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame
- Top game
- Georgia
- Recruit profile
- 4-star · Bishop Alemany · Notre Dame
- High school pipeline
- Bishop Alemany · 20 FBS recruits · 2 drafted players
- Latest roster
- No. 44 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 12 tackles · DL 584th (top 55%) · FBS Independents 43rd (top 47%) · National 2,722nd (top 44%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 4 | 6 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 38.9 |
| 2023 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 6 | 9 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | 38.5 |
| 2024 Postseason | Notre Dame | 11 | 7 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 0 | 58.2 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 11 | 25 | 4 | 2 | 3 | - | 0 | 58.2 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 8 | 12 | 3.5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 58.9 |
Related Context
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Junior Tuihalamaka played DL for Notre Dame. Across 4 tracked seasons, Junior Tuihalamaka recorded 59 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Notre Dame.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Notre Dame paired 11.5 primary output with 20.6 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 20.6 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: Texas A&M
Loss 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 · Notre Dame
Games
8
Havoc Plays / G
1.4
Efficiency
20.6
Usage
8.1
Consistency
65.5
Best Game by takeover score
Texas A&M
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Texas A&M: 2.5. Purdue: 2. NC State: 2. Boston College: 0. Navy: 2. Pittsburgh: 1. Syracuse: 1. Stanford: 1
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. Texas A&M: 1 by 29.2. Purdue: 1 by 24.2. NC State: 2 by 28.3. Boston College: 1 by 4.2. Navy: 2 by 28.3. Pittsburgh: 1 by 14.2. Syracuse: 4 by 26.7. Stanford: 0 by 10
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.3 · Games = 7 · -1.2 vs Losses
Losses2.5 · Games = 1 · +1.2 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
Texas A&M
Best efficiency game
29.2 vs Texas A&M
| Result | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 11/30 | @ Stanford | W 49-20 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sat 11/22 | vs Syracuse | W 70-7 | 4 | 4 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/15 | @ Pittsburgh | W 37-15 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sun 11/9 | vs NavySplash game | W 49-10 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 11/1 | @ Boston College | W 25-10 | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 10/11 | vs NC StateSplash game | W 36-7 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/20 | vs PurdueSplash game | W 56-30 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
| Sat 9/13 | vs Texas A&MSplash game | L 40-41 | 1 | 0 | — | 0.50 | 0 | — | 0 | — | — |
Player Story
Junior Tuihalamaka story
Junior Tuihalamaka built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Granada Hills, CA wearing No. 44, spending time with Notre Dame. The clearest part of Junior Tuihalamaka's career was his defensive production: 59 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss, 4 sacks, and 1 interception across 29 career games in the available record. That gives Junior Tuihalamaka's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Notre Dame
2022-2025
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Season Value Progression
20222023202420242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 0 | 6.3 | 1.3 | — |
| 2023 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 0 | 6.3 | 1.1 | 0 |
| 2024 Postseason | Notre Dame | 14 | 24.8 | 7.5 | 14 |
| 2024 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 14 | 24.8 | 7.5 | 0 |
| 2025 Regular Season | Notre Dame | 11.5 | 20.6 | 8.1 | -2.5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
@ Georgia
Week 1 · W 23-10 · Postseason
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
82.2 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 82.2 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 9 Texas A&M
Week 3 · L 40-41 · Ranked opponent
2.5
Havoc Plays
76.4 takeover
Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 76.4 takeover score.
#3
vs Florida State
Week 11 · W 52-3
3
Havoc Plays
72.5 takeover
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3 disruption/tackle impact with 72.5 takeover score.
#4
vs No. 46 Navy
Week 11 · W 49-10
2
Havoc Plays
69.4 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 69.4 takeover score.
#5
vs Army
Week 13 · W 49-14
2
Havoc Plays
69.2 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 69.2 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Notre Dame
11.5 primary output · 20.6 efficiency · 8.1 usage
58.9
#2
2024 Postseason · Notre Dame
58.2
14 primary · 24.8 efficiency · 7.5 usage
#3
2024 Regular Season · Notre Dame
58.2
14 primary · 24.8 efficiency · 7.5 usage
Milestones
8
Impact games
9
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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