Usage / Role
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Rotational defensive role
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Player Dossier
2024-2025Michigan State
Anelu Lafaele
EDGE • 6'2" • 239 lbs • Kalihi, HI, USA
Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile
Anelu Lafaele shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.9 disruption score.
Impact Production
55
Solid production for an edge defender
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Reliability
34
Sporadic game-to-game production
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Star Power
65
Useful peak profile
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Michigan State
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 2
- Unique Seasons
- 2
- Program Path
- Wisconsin • Michigan State
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Youngstown State
Player Story
Anelu Lafaele built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as an edge defender from Kalihi, HI wearing No. 11, spending time with Michigan State and Wisconsin. The clearest part of Anelu Lafaele's career was his...
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- Committed To
- Wisconsin
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2024
Anelu Lafaele, EDGE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Michigan State. Anelu Lafaele shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 15.9 disruption score.
Stat Footprint
Career production snapshot
- Tackles
- 7
- TFL
- 2
- Sacks
- 2
- QB hurries
- 1
Quick Answers
Anelu Lafaele quick answers
- Latest team and position
- Michigan State · EDGE
- Career Tackles
- 7
- Tracked sample
- 2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 5 games
- Best season
- 2025 Regular Season · Michigan State
- Top game
- Youngstown State
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Farrington · Wisconsin
- High school pipeline
- Farrington · 14 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- Latest roster
- No. 11 · Freshman
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 7 tackles · EDGE 36th (top 74%) · Big Ten 400th (top 52%) · National 3,239th (top 53%)
Season Ledger
Crawlable season-by-season stats
| Season | Team | Games | Tackles | TFL | Sacks | QB Hur | PD | TD | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Wisconsin | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | - | 0 | - |
| 2025 Regular Season | Michigan State | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 0 | 41.7 |
Related Context
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Anelu Lafaele played EDGE for Wisconsin and Michigan State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Anelu Lafaele recorded 7 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Michigan State.
Player insights
Lead takeaway
Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season
Michigan State paired 5 primary output with 15.9 efficiency.
Supporting note
2025 Regular Season role shape
impact-led usage with 15.9 efficiency.
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Career value is trending up
2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.
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Multi-stop career journey
Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Wisconsin, Michigan State.
Supporting note
Peak game by takeover score: Youngstown State
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.
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2025 Regular Season · Michigan State
Games
5
Havoc Plays / G
1
Efficiency
15.9
Usage
4.5
Consistency
13.3
Best Game by takeover score
Youngstown State
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Game-by-Game Trend
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Chronological game order.
Game by game trend chart. Western Michigan: 2. Boston College: 0. Youngstown State: 3. USC: 0. Nebraska: 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. Western Michigan: 1 by 24.2. Boston College: 1 by 4.2. Youngstown State: 1 by 34.2. USC: 3 by 12.5. Nebraska: 1 by 4.2
Split Comparison
Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.
Wins1.7 · Games = 3 · +1.7 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 2 · -1.7 vs Wins
Game Log
Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.
5 games
Featured metric
Havoc Plays
Top game by takeover score
Youngstown State
Best efficiency game
34.2 vs Youngstown State
Player Story
Anelu Lafaele story
Anelu Lafaele built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as an edge defender from Kalihi, HI wearing No. 11, spending time with Michigan State and Wisconsin. The clearest part of Anelu Lafaele's career was his defensive production: 7 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 2 sacks across 5 career games in the available record. That gives Anelu Lafaele's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.
Career Arc
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Wisconsin
2024
Opening stop
- 2
Michigan State
2025
Final stop
Season Value Progression
20242025
| Season | Team | Primary | Efficiency | Usage | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Regular Season | Wisconsin | 0 | — | — | — |
| 2025 Regular Season | Michigan State | 5 | 15.9 | 4.5 | 5 |
Signature Performances
Top Games
#1 Featured game
vs Youngstown State
Week 3 · W 41-24
Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
3
Havoc Plays
78.1 takeover
3 disruption/tackle impact with 78.1 takeover score.
#2
vs No. 78 Western Michigan
Week 1 · W 23-6
2
Havoc Plays
44.2 takeover
Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
2 disruption/tackle impact with 44.2 takeover score.
#3
@ No. 16 USC
Week 4 · L 31-45 · Conference game · Ranked opponent
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Havoc Plays
11.1 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 11.1 takeover score.
#4
@ No. 46 Nebraska
Week 6 · L 27-38 · Conference game
0
Havoc Plays
4.2 takeover
Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.
#5
vs No. 97 Boston College
Week 2 · W 42-40
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Havoc Plays
3.3 takeover
Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.
0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.
Top Seasons
#1 Season by Season Value
2025 Regular Season · Michigan State
5 primary output · 15.9 efficiency · 4.5 usage
41.7
#2
2024 Regular Season · Wisconsin
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0 primary · — efficiency · — usage
Milestones
1
Impact games
2
Splash games
0
10+ tackle games
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