A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Alualu attended and graduated from Saint Louis School in Hawaii in 2005. Following his senior season, Alualu represented Cal at the 2010 Senior Bowl, where he finished the game with a sack, a fumble forced, and a fumble recovered.
He was drafted by the Jaguars in the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He played college football at California. He was selected to the all-state team twice by the Honolulu Star Bulletin.
He was ranked as the Number.
2 player in Hawaii and the Number. 24 defensive tackle in America by Rivals.com for 2005.
He recorded 7 sacks and 59 tackles in high school. Alualu played in all 13 games of his first season, then started all thirteen games of his next three consecutive seasons.
He earned second-team All-Pac-10 honors in as a junior 2008 and first-team All-Pac-10 honors as a senior in 2009.
2010 NFL Draft
Originally projected a low-first to early-second round pick, Alualu was drafted as the tenth overall pick in the 2010 NFL Draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars, a move that was widely regarded as the biggest surprise of the draft, and according to Mel Kiper, Junior., was "a risky move for taking him this high". Jacksonville Jaguars
On August 2, 2010, Alualu signed a five-year deal with the Jaguars. The contract includes $17.5 million guaranteed and a total value of roughly $28 million.
= 2010 season In the first game of the regular season on September 12, Alualu recorded his first career NFL sack in a 24–17 victory over the Denver Broncos.
Over the course of the season Alualu started all 16 games, recording a total of 38 tackles and 3.5 sacks. Following his rookie year, he was named to All-Rookie teams by National Football Post, Pro Football Weekly and The Sporting News.
= 2013 season In May 2013 during organized team activities, head coach Gus Bradley announced that Alualu would move to defensive education = 2015 season On March 7, 2015, the Jaguars re-signed Alualu to a two-year, $6 million contract.
NFL stats
Key
General Practice: games played
COMB: combined tackles
TOTAL: total tackles
Air Service Training: assisted tackles
SACK: sacks
FF: forced fumbles
First Revision: fumble recoveries
First Revision YDS: fumble return yards
INT: interceptions
International Rectifier YDS: interception return yards
AVG International Rectifier : average interception return
Liquefied Natural Gas: longest interception return
Territorial Decoration: interceptions returned for touchdown
Privatdozent : passes defensed
Alualu was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and grew up in the Kuhio Park Terrace neighbourhood of Kalihi.
His father, Ta"avao Alualu went in and out of prison in Alualu"s youth, convicted multiple times on assault and drug charges. Alualu married Desire Pomele in 2005. He returned to California and enrolled in January 2006.
Alualu also has a daughter, Dere"on who was born in 2008.
