Player Dossier

2025-2025

Nebraska

TJ Lateef

QB • 6'1" • 200 lbs • Compton, CA, USA

Balanced quarterback profileVolume operator

TJ Lateef is a balanced quarterback profile with 15.9 usage in the latest tracked season.

Usage / Role

84%

Major offensive role

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Impact Production

47

Developing production for a quarterback

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Reliability

70

Reliable weekly contributor

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Star Power

44

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Nebraska

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Nebraska
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Utah

Player Story

TJ Lateef built his college career in 2025 as a quarterback from Compton, CA wearing No. 14, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of TJ Lateef's career was his passing role: 904 passing yards, 5 touchdown...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.9158

Orange Lutheran · Orange, CA

Committed To
Nebraska
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

TJ Lateef, QB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Nebraska. TJ Lateef is a balanced quarterback profile with 15.9 usage in the latest tracked season.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Total offense
1,024
Passing yards
904
Rushing yards
120
Touchdowns
9

Quick Answers

TJ Lateef quick answers

Latest team and position
Nebraska · QB
Career Total Offense
1,024
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 2 entries · 7 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Nebraska
Top game
Utah
Recruit profile
4-star · Orange Lutheran · Nebraska
High school pipeline
Orange Lutheran · 48 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 14 · Freshman
2025 Total offense rank
1,024 total offense · QB 151st (top 37%) · Big Ten 26th (top 13%) · National 186th (top 12%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTotal OffensePass YdsRush YdsTDOverall
2025 PostseasonNebraska720418222269.2
2025 Regular SeasonNebraska782072298769.2

Related Context

TJ Lateef played QB for Nebraska. Across 1 tracked season, TJ Lateef recorded 904 passing yards, 120 rushing yards, and 9 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Nebraska.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Nebraska paired 1,024 primary output with 67.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

pass-led usage with 67.3 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: Utah

Loss with 204 yards of offense and 52.6 efficiency. It landed in the 85.7th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Postseason · Nebraska

Games

7

Primary Metric / G

146.3

Efficiency

67.3

Usage

15.9

Consistency

74.1

Best Game by takeover score

Utah

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Utah: 204. Akron: 145. Houston Christian: 141. USC: 25. UCLA: 236. Penn State: 202. Iowa: 71

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. Utah: 41 by 52.6. Akron: 9 by 92.7. Houston Christian: 8 by 87.5. USC: 13 by 52.4. UCLA: 20 by 87.2. Penn State: 47 by 53.5. Iowa: 25 by 45.4

Split Comparison

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

Wins174 · Games = 3 · +48.5 vs Losses
Losses125.5 · Games = 4 · -48.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

7 games

Featured metric

Total Offense

Top game by takeover score

Utah

Best efficiency game

92.7 vs Akron

Result
Wed 12/31@ UtahL 22-44152818253.61152.613221.70116
Fri 11/28vs IowaL 16-409246937.50045.412202
Sun 11/23@ Penn StateL 10-37213718756.80053.510151.50111
Sun 11/9@ UCLA3+ TDW 28-21131520586.73087.25316.20014
Sat 11/1vs USCL 17-2157771.40052.46183010
Sat 9/13vs Houston ChristianW 59-755126100.01087.5315517
Sat 9/6vs AkronW 68-06712885.70092.72178.5019

Player Story

TJ Lateef story

TJ Lateef built his college career in 2025 as a quarterback from Compton, CA wearing No. 14, spending time with Nebraska. The clearest part of TJ Lateef's career was his passing role: 904 passing yards, 5 touchdown passes, 123 attempts, and 120 rushing yards across 7 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Nebraska. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Quarterback careers are usually judged first by volume, efficiency, and scoring chances. His career also includes 120 rushing yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 7 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Nebraska.

The arc is straightforward: TJ Lateef moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Nebraska

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 PostseasonNebraska1,02467.315.9
2025 Regular SeasonNebraska1,02467.315.90

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 8 Utah

Week 1 · L 22-44 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

Loss with 204 yards of offense and 52.6 efficiency.

204

Total Offense

72.3 takeover

204 total offense with 52.6 efficiency.

#2

@ No. 98 UCLA

Week 11 · W 28-21 · Conference game

236

Total Offense

71.9 takeover

Win with 236 yards of offense and 87.2 efficiency.

236 total offense with 87.2 efficiency.

#3

@ No. 15 Penn State

Week 13 · L 10-37 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

202

Total Offense

69.6 takeover

Loss with 202 yards of offense and 53.5 efficiency.

202 total offense with 53.5 efficiency.

#4

vs No. 117 Akron

Week 2 · W 68-0

145

Total Offense

55.9 takeover

Win with 145 yards of offense and 92.7 efficiency.

145 total offense with 92.7 efficiency.

#5

vs Houston Christian

Week 3 · W 59-7

141

Total Offense

54.9 takeover

Win with 141 yards of offense and 87.5 efficiency.

141 total offense with 87.5 efficiency.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Nebraska

1,024 primary output · 67.3 efficiency · 15.9 usage

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#2

2025 Regular Season · Nebraska

69.2

1,024 primary · 67.3 efficiency · 15.9 usage

Milestones

0

250+ passing yards

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300+ total offense

1

3+ TD games

3

Above avg efficiency