Shalom Luani is the latest in what has become a pretty long line of successful Washington State players from American Samoa, but he’s likely to be the first of this latest string to be selected in the NFL Draft.
As a junior college transfer, Luani had about as successful a two-year run as one could hope for — he started nearly every game and was the most important cog on a defense whose improvement was the key to WSU improving from three wins in 2014 to 17 wins over the past two seasons.
In that span, he recorded 158 tackles (11.