Nana Osafo-Mensah
Nana Osafo-Mensah
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Nana Osafo-Mensah has played for three head coaches across four seasons and two programs. The receipt: 6 tackles, 2 TFL against Arizona — Week 13, 2024.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
- positional archetype classification
- head-coach lineage
- game log
How it ended
Four seasons at TCU, 8 sacks — his college career is complete.
Career Arc
Coaching Lineage · 2021–2024
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Gary Patterson → Sonny Dykes. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
2025 snapshot
Season context · Team result + system
Splits & context
Supporting Cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Sonny Dykes
Awards
Player Standing · 17 rungs
Tier 2 · StarterR06 · Starter
Starter. Tackle volume for the position at a full-time starter's level.
Career stats
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | TCU | 38 | 22 | 8.5 | 3.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2023 | Notre Dame | 20 | 12 | 5.5 | 3.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Notre Dame | 11 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Notre Dame | 12 | 5 | 2.5 | 2.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 81 | 46 | 17.5 | 8.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
Signature game
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 8 · 2024
W 13–7
at Utah
2 TOT · 1 SOLO · 1 TFL
A wire-to-wire battle — won by 6 on the road.
How he plays
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
CFB Index positional classification
DNA match
Player DNA
3-Tech Penetrator
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
His 2024 production profile sits closest to Korey Foreman’s 2024 season.
Matches Korey on
Differs from Korey on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Dayon Hayes's graduate season at Pittsburgh (2023).
Matches Dayon on