REDSHIRT SENIOR (2024)
- Leif Fautanu has played 3,329 snaps in his career, third-most among active FBS centers, behind only NMSU’s Canaan Yarro (3,388) and Texas’ Jake Majors (3,333) and has started 47 consecutive games in his career out of his 53 total starts.
- His 89.3 pass-blocking grade is the best grade for any FBS center and seventh among all players.
- Has paved the way for ASU’s revamped offense, anchoring a line that has already seen the Sun Devils post more offensive yards than it did a season ago with no less than three games remaining.
- Road grader for ASU’s All-Everything running back, Cam Skattebo.
- Fautanu also has just four pressures credited against him, tied for 16th-fewest among FBS players and 9th among centers (min. 250 pass block snaps).
- His 1.2 pressure allowed percentage is 9th among FBS centers.
- He started all 12 games for the Sun Devils a year ago, playing all but one snap of the season (helmet came off) for the team at center (850).
- Was named ASU's offensive MVP and earned Pac-12 All-Conference Honorable Mention accolades
- Has olayed 2,657 career snaps, the third-most snaps among active players heading into the 2024 season behind only NMSU's Canaan Yaro (2,816) and Texas' Jake Majors (2,707)
- Started all 12 games for the Sun Devils, playing every single snap of the season for the team at center (851)
- Finished with the fifth-best pass-blocking score among centers in the Pac-12 (78.7) - a total good for 29th in the country among all centers (min. 500 snaps)...It will be the second-best grade of any returning player in the Big 12 this season
- His overall offensive grade of 69.3 will be third among returning Big 12 centers entering the 2024 season
- Was credited with allowing just two sacks all season by Pro Football Focus and only three QB hits
- Was named the Outland Trophy National Player of the Week and Pac-12 Offensive Lineman of the Week following ASU's win over Washington State...Arizona State's offense racked up 509 total yards (274 passing and 235 rushing) with Fautanu and the offensive line leading the way. It is the first time the Sun Devils have eclipsed 250 passing yards and 200 rushing yards (234) in the same game since a victory over No. 15 Utah Nov. 3, 2018 (285 passing, 251 rushing)... Arizona State finished with 235 yards and five touchdowns on the ground...The five rushing touchdowns as a team were the most since ASU ran for six in a victory over Southern Utah in the 2021 season opener... It was the most in a FBS game since the Sun Devils ran for six in a victory over Oregon State in the 2020 season finale. It was one of only 16 times since 1996 that ASU has ran for five or more touchdowns in a game...
- Fautanu did not allow a single pressure according to PFF in that game and was also the 15th-highest graded center in the nation according to PFF.
- Honorable mention All-Mountain West selection in 2022, anchoring an offensive line that produced a 1,000-yard rusher for the second consecutive season…Was the fifth-highest graded center in the MWC by PFF this season as a pass blocker and was not credited with a sack allowed on the season – one of just 21 FBS centers with at least 400 pass blocking snaps to lay such a claim and showing a marked improvement in the category after allowing six in 2021
- A preseason 2022 Rimington Trophy and Polynesian College Football Player of the Year candidate … Named 2022 Preseason Second Team All-Mountain West by Athlon
- Started all 12 games at center in 2021 and anchored a line that produced 1,261-yard rusher Charles Williams, who also had 15 rushing touchdowns … Earned the UNLV Football Offensive Captain Award, which is given to the team's overall captains selected at the end of the season … A member of the official watch list for the Polynesian College Football Player of the Year Award
- Started four games in the COVID-19 shortened 2020 season after redshirting his true freshman 2019 campaign
- A 2019 graduate of University Laboratory School…A three-year letterwinner...Also played at defensive tackle, was a long snapper and had served a stint as the team’s punter…Selected to play in the 2019 Polynesian Bowl…Two-sport athlete who was also a four-year letterwinner on the Junior Bows’ basketball team as a center
- Comes from an athletic family: Uncle Ed Ripley played nose guard at the University of Hawai’i…Uncle Joe Onosai was a center for the Dallas Cowboys…Father, Leif, played on the U.S. Army men’s volleyball team…Mother, Roselyn, was a member of the volleyball team at Hawaii
- Name is pronounced “LEEF Faw-TAH-new”