2025 Football Roster
Roster
Siale Taupaki
- Position:
- Defensive Line
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 335
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- East Oakland, Calif.
- Previous School:
- Oakland HS
Career Highlights
• 3-time Athletic Director’s Honor Roll member (last Spring 2023)
Career Summary
Taupaki has played in 28 games across six seasons … has totaled 23 tackles (14-9-23), 1.0 tackles for loss and 1.0 sacks … has played 21 games on the defensive line and seven games on the offensive line.
2024
Played in all 12 games and made seven starts on the defensive line … made the switch back to defensive line after spending 2023 as a reserve offensive lineman … totaled 23 tackles (14-9-23), 1.0 tackles for loss and 1.0 sacks … recorded a season-high six tackles (3-3-6) versus Oregon (Sept. 28) … recorded four tackles (3-1-4) versus Indiana (Sept. 21) … logged his first-career sack versus Minnesota (Oct. 12).
2023
Played in seven games as a reserve offensive lineman and special teams performer (North Carolina Central, Utah, Oregon State, Stanford, Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State) … earned Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the spring quarter.
2022
Played in the first two games of the season versus Bowling Green (Sept. 3) and Alabama State (Sept. 10).
2021
Did not see game action.
2020
Played in all seven games as a reserve defensive lineman and special teams performer … earned Athletic Director’s Honor Roll for the winter and spring quarters.
2019
Did not see game action … enrolled at UCLA in June 2019.
High School
Prepped at Oakland High School (Oakland, Calif.) … listed as a three-star prospect by 247Sports, Rivals and ESPN … no. 87 on the Rivals California 100 list … no. 92 on the state list by ESPN … MaxPreps All-State Second Team selection ... Sacramento Bee All-Metro selection ... All-Sac-Joaquin Section Defensive MVP ... also starred on Oakland’s track and field team.
Personal
Son of Kolo and Seilose Taupaki … has three brothers and two sisters … in his spare time, he is cleaning ... political science major.
