2024: Third-Team All-Sun Belt Conference ... Led ODU and finished 10th in the Sun Belt with 88 tackles ... Registered 4.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, one pass breakup and one forced fumble ... Led the team in tackling five times ... Had four double-digit tackle games ... Recorded seven tackles and half a sack in the season-opener at South Carolina ... Totaled a career-high 18 tackles and half a sack against East Carolina ... Had seven tackles against Virginia Tech ... Recorded 10 tackles, one sack and 1.5 tackles for loss in the win at Bowling Green ... Notched three tackles at CCU ... Had two tackles in the win at Georgia State ... Totaled five tackles apiece against TSU, Georgia Southern and App State ... Recorded 11 tackles against JMU ... Notched 12 tackles against Marshall ... Had three tackles and a sack in the season finale win at Arkansas State.
2023: Played in all 13 games and started one at linebacker ... Had 29 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss ... Led the team in tackles once and had one double-digit tackle game ... Recorded his first career tackle in the season-opener at Virginia Tech ... Totaled three stops in the win over Louisiana ... Recorded eight tackles and a tackle for loss in the win over Georgia State ... Registered a career-high 14 tackles and half a tackle for loss in the Famous Toastery Bowl against WKU. Made his first career start ... SBC Academic Honor Roll.
2022: Redshirted ... Played in one game, on special teams at Appalachian State.
Personal: Son of Tony and Shantell Naotala ... Has two brothers, Kalepo and Seth. Seth plays football for ODU, and a sister, Siena ... Majoring in exercise science.
KOA NAOTALA CAREER STATS
| Year | Games | UT | AT | TOTAL | TFL | Sacks | INT | FF | FR | PBU |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 13 | 6 | 23 | 29 | 1.5-2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 12 | 22 | 66 | 88 | 4.5-26 | 3.5-25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 26 | 28 | 89 | 117 | 6.0-28 | 3.5-25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |