Player Dossier

2023-2025

Coastal Carolina

Malaki Te'o

LB • 6'0" • 231 lbs • Oahu, HI, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Malaki Te'o shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

1%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

7

Developing production for a linebacker

lowelite

Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

17

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina

2325

Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Hawai'i • Coastal Carolina
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Old Dominion
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2022 · Rating 0.8489

Mater Dei · Santa Ana, CA

Committed To
Hawai'i
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Malaki Te'o, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina. Malaki Te'o shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 4.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
2

Quick Answers

Malaki Te'o quick answers

Latest team and position
Coastal Carolina · LB
Career Tackles
2
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 2 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina
Top game
Old Dominion
Recruit profile
3-star · Mater Dei · Hawai'i
High school pipeline
Mater Dei · 95 FBS recruits · 7 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 44 · Junior
2025 Tackles rank
2 tackles · LB 1,125th (top 89%) · Sun Belt 487th (top 77%) · National 4,662nd (top 76%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2023 Regular SeasonHawai'i00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonCoastal Carolina22-0--036.5

Related Context

Transfer Portal History

Matched portal movement

SeasonPathMovementValueDate
2026Coastal Carolina to UnlistedG5/FCS to Unlisted10.6Jan 5, 2026

Malaki Te'o played LB for Hawai'i and Coastal Carolina. Across 2 tracked seasons, Malaki Te'o recorded 2 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Coastal Carolina.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

Coastal Carolina paired 0 primary output with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 4.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

2025 Regular Season improved on the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Hawai'i, Coastal Carolina.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Old Dominion

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina

Games

2

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

4.2

Usage

0.6

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Old Dominion

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Game-by-Game Trend

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12

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Old Dominion: 0. App State: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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Scatter view is hidden because this season does not have enough game-to-game variety yet.

Split Comparison

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Wins0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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2 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Old Dominion

Best efficiency game

4.2 vs App State

Result
Sat 10/18@ App StateW 45-3710000
Sat 10/4@ Old DominionL 7-4710000

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    Hawai'i

    2023

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Coastal Carolina

    2025

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

20232025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2023 Regular SeasonHawai'i0
2025 Regular SeasonCoastal Carolina04.20.60

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 49 Old Dominion

Week 6 · L 7-47 · Conference game

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

3.3 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.3 takeover score.

#2

@ No. 111 App State

Week 8 · W 45-37 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

3.1 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 3.1 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Regular Season · Coastal Carolina

0 primary output · 4.2 efficiency · 0.6 usage

36.5

#2

2023 Regular Season · Hawai'i

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games