Player Dossier

2012-2016

Texas Tech

Thierry Nguema

DB • 5'10" • Corona, CA, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Thierry Nguema shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.7 disruption score.

Usage / Role

21%

Rotational defensive role

lowfeatured

Impact Production

31

Developing production for a defensive back

lowelite

Reliability

30

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

42

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2015 Regular Season · Texas Tech

1213141516

Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Texas Tech
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Sam Houston

Player Story

Thierry Nguema built his college career from 2012 through 2016 as a defensive back from Corona, CA wearing No. 17, spending time with Texas Tech. The clearest part of Thierry Nguema's career was his defensive...

Read the story
2★

Recruit Profile

Class 2011 · Rating 0.7907

Santiago · Corona, CA

Committed To
Texas Tech
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2011

Thierry Nguema, DB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2015 Regular Season · Texas Tech. Thierry Nguema shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 14.7 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
28
Passes defended
1

Quick Answers

Thierry Nguema quick answers

Latest team and position
Texas Tech · DB
Career Tackles
28
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 5 entries · 11 games
Best season
2015 Regular Season · Texas Tech
Top game
Sam Houston
Recruit profile
2-star · Santiago · Texas Tech
High school pipeline
Santiago · 16 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 17 · Class 2016
2016 Tackles rank
28 tackles · DB 326th (top 40%) · Big 12 123rd (top 28%) · National 1,552nd (top 28%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2012 Regular SeasonTexas Tech00-0--0-
2013 Regular SeasonTexas Tech00-0--0-
2014 Regular SeasonTexas Tech00-0--0-
2015 Regular SeasonTexas Tech10-0--056.7
2016 Regular SeasonTexas Tech1028-0-1035.7

Related Context

Thierry Nguema played DB for Texas Tech. Across 5 tracked seasons, Thierry Nguema recorded 28 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2016 with Texas Tech.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2015 Regular Season

Texas Tech paired 1 primary output with 20 efficiency.

Supporting note

2016 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 14.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2016 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Stephen F. Austin

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

Filter the strongest season sample, inspect game-level shape, and then drop into the full log without losing the story of the year.

Season Explorer

Understand the selected season before dropping into the full game log.

2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech

Games

10

Havoc Plays / G

0.2

Efficiency

14.7

Usage

2.6

Consistency

6.7

Best Game by takeover score

Stephen F. Austin

Hover a point or expand a game row to keep the active game context visible here.

Active game

Hover over a point

Hover or select a game to keep its context visible here without the page shifting around.

Game-by-Game Trend

Follow how the selected stat changes from one game to the next. Spikes mark standout outings, while dips show quieter weeks.

12345678910

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Stephen F. Austin: 1. Arizona State: 0. Louisiana Tech: 0. Kansas: 0. Kansas State: 1. West Virginia: 0. Oklahoma: 0. TCU: 0. Texas: 0. Baylor: 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.

Low volumeHigh quality

High volumeHigh quality

Low volumeLower quality

High volumeLower quality

Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Arizona State: 7 by 29.2. Louisiana Tech: 4 by 16.7. Kansas: 5 by 20.8. Kansas State: 1 by 14.2. West Virginia: 1 by 4.2. Oklahoma: 3 by 12.5. TCU: 2 by 8.3. Texas: 1 by 4.2. Baylor: 4 by 16.7

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.2 · Games = 5 · +0 vs Losses
Losses0.2 · Games = 5 · +0 vs Wins

Game Log

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

10 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Stephen F. Austin

Best efficiency game

29.2 vs Arizona State

Result
Fri 11/25vs BaylorW 54-3543000
Sat 11/5vs TexasL 37-4511000
Sat 10/29@ TCUW 27-2421000
Sun 10/23vs OklahomaL 59-6631000
Sat 10/15vs West VirginiaL 17-4811000
Sat 10/8@ Kansas StateL 38-4411001
Fri 9/30vs KansasW 55-1955000
Sat 9/17vs Louisiana TechW 59-4544000
Sun 9/11@ Arizona StateL 55-6877000
Sun 9/4vs Stephen F. AustinW 69-171

Player Story

Thierry Nguema story

Thierry Nguema built his college career from 2012 through 2016 as a defensive back from Corona, CA wearing No. 17, spending time with Texas Tech. The clearest part of Thierry Nguema's career was his defensive production: 28 tackles, 2 interceptions, and 1 pass defended across 11 career games in the available record. That gives Thierry Nguema's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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

  1. 1

    Texas Tech

    2012-2016

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20122013201420152016
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2012 Regular SeasonTexas Tech0
2013 Regular SeasonTexas Tech00
2014 Regular SeasonTexas Tech00
2015 Regular SeasonTexas Tech1201
2016 Regular SeasonTexas Tech214.72.61

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Sam Houston

Week 1 · W 59-45

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1

Havoc Plays

60 takeover

1 disruption/tackle impact with 60 takeover score.

#2

vs Stephen F. Austin

Week 1 · W 69-17

1

Havoc Plays

55.6 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 55.6 takeover score.

#3

@ Kansas State

Week 6 · L 38-44 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

40.8 takeover

Loss with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.8 takeover score.

#4

@ Arizona State

Week 2 · L 55-68

0

Havoc Plays

21.1 takeover

Loss with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 21.1 takeover score.

#5

vs Kansas

Week 5 · W 55-19 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

18.3 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 18.3 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2015 Regular Season · Texas Tech

1 primary output · 20 efficiency · usage

56.7

#2

2016 Regular Season · Texas Tech

35.7

2 primary · 14.7 efficiency · 2.6 usage

#3

2012 Regular Season · Texas Tech

0 primary · efficiency · usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games