Tevarua Tafiti holds the LOLB · Starter spot in Stanford Cardinal’s lolb room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Tevarua Tafiti is a redshirt senior outside linebacker for Stanford who stands 6'2" and weighs 240 pounds. Originally from Waipahu, Hawaii, and a graduate of Punahou School, Tafiti was a four-star recruit ranked 264th nationally in the 2022 class. In 2025, his redshirt senior season, he appeared in 11 games with 10 starts, recording 32 total tackles, 7 tackles-for-loss, and 2 sacks while adding 6 quarterback hurries and 1 pass defense. He earned the Gundelach Award following the season. Across four years at Stanford, Tafiti has accumulated 8 career sacks and been recognized twice for academic achievement, including a 2024 selection to the ACC All-Academic Team.

Stanford2022 — present