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Mustafa Khaleefah

Mustafa Khaleefah

UPDATED June 28, 2025

Mustafa Khaleefah joined the Wayne State football coaching staff in August of 2024.  He served as a graduate assistant coach working with the offensive line in 2024.  He was promoted to tight ends coach in the spring of 2025.

In his first season with the Green and Gold, Khaleefah helped guide Charles Wesley to an Honorable Mention All-GLIAC certificate.  Eight of his student-athletes garnered Academic All-GLIAC recognition, including five on the GLIAC All-Academic Excellence Team for maintaining a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5.

A native of Dearborn, Khaleefah graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelors of Arts in Criminal Justice in the spring of 2021.  Following graduation, he served as a building substitute and football coach at Dearborn High School for three years.

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After redshirting for the Spartans in 2017, Khaleefah made his collegiate debut at Maryland.  He also saw action in 2018 vs. Ohio State.  He played in five games (Tulsa, Western Michigan, Arizona State, Penn State, and Rutgers) in 2019 seeing action on the offensive line as well as on special teams.  Khaleefah played a season-high 25 snaps at Rutgers.

A 2017 graduate of Dearborn High School, he was selected to the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News All-State Dream Teams.  Khaleefah was named to The Associated Press 2016 Division 1-2 All-Michigan First Team, along with being chosen to USA TODAY's All-USA Michigan First Team.  

A PrepStar All-Midwest Region Team honoree, he was selected to the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game.  The captain of the Detroit Free Press All-West Team, Khaleefah was selected to the Dearborn-area All-City First Team by MIPrepZone.com.

He played under coach John Powell and helped Dearborn to a 9-2 record in 2016 and a berth in the MHSAA Division 1 district finals as well as back-to-back Western Wayne (Red) league titles.  Khaleefah also played on the defensive line and had 21 tackles as a senior, including two for loss.  A two-time Western Wayne (Red) all-league honoree, he only allowed two sacks in three seasons of varsity football.  Khaleefah was rated the No. 3 offensive tackle in the state of Michigan by Scout.com.  He was listed one of the top players in the state of Michigan by ESPN.com (No. 16), The Detroit News (No. 17), Detroit Free Press (No. 18), Rivals.com (No. 18) and 247Sports (No. 22), along with being ranked one of the top offensive tackle prospects in the nation by ESPN.com (No. 62), Scout.com (No. 75) and 247 Sports (No. 95).