With the Denver Broncos, 2025. Photo: Tennessee Titans, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Safety, USC, 2018–⁠20

Talanoa Hufanga

Number: No. 15
Height: 6′1″
Weight: 215 lb
Class (2020): Junior
Hometown: Corvallis, OR
Born: Feb 1, 2000

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Talanoa Hufanga played safety at USC (2018–⁠20). He was a consensus All‑American in 2020. The San Francisco 49ers took Hufanga in round 5, No. 180 overall in the 2021 NFL Draft.

Best season: 90; Tackles, 2019 (USC, 8–⁠5)
Best game: 12 tackles; Vs. Oregon, week 16, 2020: No. 3 defensive game in FBS that week
Drafted: No. 180; Round 5, 2021 NFL Draft (San Francisco 49ers)

18tackles, career highvs. UCLA, 2019 2sacks, career highvs. Oregon, 2020

Honors

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Defense

Tackles, season by season, with his team’s record

5–⁠78–⁠55–⁠1AP 21

Season	Team	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
2018	USC	51	31	3.5	0	0	4
2019	USC	90	58	7.5	3.5	0	3
2020	USC	62	40	5.5	3	4	1
Career		203	129	16.5	6.5	4	8

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. A dash: the source has no number for that season (often an FCS season), and career totals count only the numbers on file.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Class	Ht	Wt
2018	USC	15	S	Fr.
2019	USC	15	S	So.
2020	USC	15	S	Jr.	6′1″	215

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2020 USC 6 games, 62 tackles, 3 sacks, 4 INT

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	Int	PD
Nov 7	vs.Arizona State	W 28–⁠27	10	9	0.5	0	0	0
Nov 14	atArizona	W 34–⁠30	4	2	0	0	1	0
Nov 21	atUtah	W 33–⁠17	10	3	0	0	1	1
Dec 6	vs.Washington State	W 38–⁠13	9	5	1	1	1	0
Dec 12	atUCLA	W 43–⁠38	17	11	2	0	1	0
Dec 18	vs.Oregon	L 24–⁠31	12	10	2	2	0	0

2019 USC 10 games, 90 tackles, 3.5 sacks

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	Sacks	PD
Aug 31	vs.Fresno State	W 31–⁠23	8	6	0	0	0
Sep 7	vs.Stanford	W 45–⁠20	10	7	1	0	0
Sep 14	atBYU	L 27–⁠30	10	6	0	0	1
Sep 20	vs.Utah	W 30–⁠23	14	7	1.5	0.5	0
Oct 12	atNotre Dame	L 27–⁠30	6	5	0	0	1
Oct 19	vs.Arizona	W 41–⁠14	3	1	0	0	0
Nov 9	atArizona State	W 31–⁠26	4	4	0	0	0
Nov 16	atCalifornia	W 41–⁠17	3	3	1	1	0
Nov 23	vs.UCLA	W 52–⁠35	18	11	2	1	1
Dec 27 ✦	vs.Iowa	L 24–⁠49	14	8	2	1	0

2018 USC 8 games, 51 tackles

Date	Opponent	Result	Tkl	Solo	TFL	PD
Sep 1	vs.UNLV	W 43–⁠21	1	1	0	0
Sep 8	atStanford	L 3–⁠17	3	2	0.5	0
Sep 15	atTexas	L 14–⁠37	3	2	0	1
Sep 21	vs.Washington State	W 39–⁠36	9	4	0	1
Sep 29	atArizona	W 24–⁠20	5	5	0	0
Oct 13	vs.Colorado	W 31–⁠20	7	4	0	0
Oct 20	atUtah	L 28–⁠41	12	6	0.5	1
Oct 27	vs.Arizona State	L 35–⁠38	11	7	2.5	1

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Drill	Pro day 2021
Height	6′0⅜″
Weight	199 lb
Arm length	32″
Hand size	9⅞″
Wingspan	77¼″
40-yard dash	4.64 s
10-yard split	1.63 s
Vertical jump	35½″
Broad jump	10′8″
Bench press	12 reps
3-cone drill	6.96 s
20-yard shuttle	4.39 s

Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

6 seasons, 68 games with a stat; latest team: Denver Broncos.

Pro Bowl: 2022 · First-team All-Pro (AP): 2022 · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 2025

All-Pro teams: AP first team 2022; AP second team 2025; Pro Football Writers first team 2022.

Season	Team	G	Tkl	Sacks	Int
2021	San Francisco 49ers	12	28	0	0
2022	San Francisco 49ers	17	89	2	4
2023	San Francisco 49ers	10	48	0	3
2024	San Francisco 49ers	7	35	0	0
2025	Denver Broncos	17	106	2	0
2026 (so far)	Denver Broncos	5	22	1	2
NFL career		68	328	5	9

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat. Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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At a glance

Career highs