Guess the Player
Welcome to SA Snap Count’s Guess the Player. You get five clues to name this week’s player. Clue 1 is the hardest, and each one after it gets easier. Tap a clue to open it, make your guess, and only open the next one if you’re stumped.
The answer is the player’s first and last name, and it can be any active or former player from the CoFL, UFL, XFL, USFL, or CFL. If you still don’t have it after five clues, open the answer at the bottom.
The clues
Clue 1 (hardest)
After finishing high school in Hawaii, he spent two seasons at New Mexico Military Institute, a junior college, before transferring to an SEC program [1].
Clue 2
He went undrafted in 2019, and over the next few years he was on the offseason roster or practice squad of six NFL teams, from the Houston Texans to the Minnesota Vikings, without ever playing in an NFL regular-season game [1][4].
Clue 3
In 2020 he was the very first player allocated to the XFL’s St. Louis BattleHawks, and in 2022 he led the USFL in both passing yards (2,014) and touchdown passes (14) for the Tampa Bay Bandits [1].
Clue 4
He was named the 2023 XFL Offensive Player of the Year after leading his team to a 9–1 regular season, throwing just three interceptions all year [4][5].
Clue 5 (easiest)
The former Ole Miss quarterback was MVP of the 2025 UFL Championship Game, setting a league record with 390 passing yards as the DC Defenders beat the Michigan Panthers 58–34 [2][3].
How’d you do?
- Clue 1: Hall of Famer
- Clue 2: All-Pro
- Clue 3: Starter
- Clue 4: Practice squad
- Clue 5: Back to the film room
Reveal the answer
Jordan Ta’amu
A quarterback from Pearl City, Hawaii, he played two junior college seasons at New Mexico Military Institute before starting at Ole Miss in 2017 and 2018 [1]. After going undrafted in 2019, he became a spring football regular: the first player allocated to the St. Louis BattleHawks in 2020, the USFL’s leader in passing yards and touchdowns with the Tampa Bay Bandits in 2022, and the 2023 XFL Offensive Player of the Year with the DC Defenders [1][4][5]. In 2025 he threw for a UFL-record 390 yards and accounted for five total touchdowns to win Championship Game MVP as DC beat Michigan 58–34, and in 2026 he passed 10,000 career spring football passing yards before a season-ending knee injury [1][2][3].
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Sources
Show sources (spoiler: they name the player)
- Wikipedia: Jordan Ta’amu
- UFL: Defenders roll to 2025 UFL Championship, 58–34 (June 14, 2025)
- UFL: Jordan Ta’amu, The Winning Recipe
- CBS Sports: XFL Awards 2023, Defenders’ Jordan Ta’amu wins Offensive Player of the Year
- Pro Football Newsroom: Jordan Ta’amu named 2023 XFL Offensive Player of the Year (May 5, 2023)