Player Dossier

2025-2025

Utah

Karson Kaufusi

DT • 6'6" • 286 lbs • Holladay, UT, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Karson Kaufusi shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

13%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

14

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

21

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Utah

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Utah
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: UCLA
3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.8808

Skyline · Salt Lake City, UT

Committed To
Utah
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Karson Kaufusi, DT. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Utah. Karson Kaufusi shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
13
TFL
0.5
Sacks
0.5

Quick Answers

Karson Kaufusi quick answers

Latest team and position
Utah · DT
Career Tackles
13
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 2 entries · 6 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Utah
Top game
UCLA
Recruit profile
3-star · Skyline · Utah
High school pipeline
Skyline · 4 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 51 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
13 tackles · DT 129th (top 56%) · Big 12 309th (top 43%) · National 2,622nd (top 43%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 PostseasonUtah62-0--034.8
2025 Regular SeasonUtah6110.50.5--034.8

Related Context

Karson Kaufusi played DT for Utah. Across 1 tracked season, Karson Kaufusi recorded 13 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Utah.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Utah paired 1 primary output with 10.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 10.7 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: UCLA

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Postseason · Utah

Games

6

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

10.7

Usage

2.7

Consistency

5.6

Best Game by takeover score

UCLA

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Nebraska: 0. UCLA: 1. Cal Poly: 0. West Virginia: 0. Colorado: 0. Cincinnati: 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. Nebraska: 2 by 8.3. UCLA: 3 by 22.5. Cal Poly: 2 by 8.3. West Virginia: 2 by 8.3. Colorado: 2 by 8.3. Cincinnati: 2 by 8.3

Split Comparison

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

First Half0.3 · Games = 3 · +0.3 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 3 · -0.3 vs First Half

Game Log

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6 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

UCLA

Best efficiency game

22.5 vs UCLA

Result
Wed 12/31vs NebraskaW 44-2220000
Sun 11/2vs CincinnatiW 45-1421000
Sun 10/26vs ColoradoW 53-721000
Sat 9/27@ West VirginiaW 48-1421000
Sat 9/6vs Cal PolyW 63-921000
Sun 8/31@ UCLAW 43-10310.500.500

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

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    Utah

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 PostseasonUtah110.72.7
2025 Regular SeasonUtah110.72.70

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ No. 98 UCLA

Week 1 · W 43-10

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

64.2 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 64.2 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 56 Cincinnati

Week 10 · W 45-14 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

8 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 8 takeover score.

#3

vs Cal Poly

Week 2 · W 63-9

0

Havoc Plays

7.5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.5 takeover score.

#4

vs No. 96 Colorado

Week 9 · W 53-7 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

7.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 7.2 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 46 Nebraska

Week 1 · W 44-22 · Postseason

0

Havoc Plays

6.7 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 6.7 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Utah

1 primary output · 10.7 efficiency · 2.7 usage

34.8

#2

2025 Regular Season · Utah

34.8

1 primary · 10.7 efficiency · 2.7 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games