Player Dossier

2024-2025

BYU

Kinilau Fonohema

DE • 6'5" • 240 lbs • Springville, UT, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Kinilau Fonohema shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.6 disruption score.

Usage / Role

3%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

9

Developing production for an edge defender

lowelite

Reliability

10

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 · BYU

2425

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
BYU
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Portland State

Kinilau Fonohema, DE. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Regular Season · BYU. Kinilau Fonohema shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 5.6 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
4

Quick Answers

Kinilau Fonohema quick answers

Latest team and position
BYU · DE
Career Tackles
4
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 3 games
Best season
2025 Regular Season · BYU
Top game
Portland State
High school pipeline
Springville HS · 0 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 97 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
4 tackles · DE 224th (top 79%) · Big 12 457th (top 63%) · National 3,898th (top 63%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonBYU00-0--0-
2025 Regular SeasonBYU34-0--039.1

Related Context

Kinilau Fonohema played DE for BYU. Across 2 tracked seasons, Kinilau Fonohema recorded 4 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with BYU.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Regular Season

BYU paired 0 primary output with 5.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 5.6 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value is trending up

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

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Portland State

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

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · BYU

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0

Efficiency

5.6

Usage

1.4

Consistency

100

Best Game by takeover score

Portland State

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Game-by-Game Trend

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123

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Portland State: 0. Stanford: 0. West Virginia: 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. Portland State: 2 by 8.3. Stanford: 1 by 4.2. West Virginia: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

First Half0 · Games = 2 · +0 vs Second Half
Second Half0 · Games = 1 · +0 vs First Half

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Portland State

Best efficiency game

8.3 vs Portland State

Result
Sat 10/4vs West VirginiaW 38-2411000
Sun 9/7vs StanfordW 27-310000
Sun 8/31vs Portland StateW 69-022000

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    BYU

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonBYU0
2025 Regular SeasonBYU05.61.40

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Portland State

Week 1 · W 69-0

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0

Havoc Plays

9.7 takeover

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.7 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 112 Stanford

Week 2 · W 27-3

0

Havoc Plays

4.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 4.2 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 93 West Virginia

Week 6 · W 38-24 · Conference game

0

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 · BYU

0 primary output · 5.6 efficiency · 1.4 usage

39.1

#2

2024 Regular Season · BYU

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games