  Teleparallel Gravity (TG) describes gravitation as a torsional- rather than
curvature-based effect. As in curvature-based constructions of gravity, several
different formulations can be proposed, one of which is the Teleparallel
equivalent of General Relativity (TEGR) which is dynamically equivalent to GR.
In this work, we explore the evolution of a spatially homogeneous collapsing
stellar body in the context of two important modifications to TEGR, namely f
(T) gravity which is the TG analogue of f (R) gravity, and a nonminimal
coupling with a scalar field which has become popular in TG for its effects in
cosmology. We explore the role of geodesic deviation to study the congruence of
nearby particles in lieu of the Raychaudhuri equation. We find f (T) models
that satisfy the null energy condition and describe interesting collapse
profiles. In the case of a nonminimally coupled scalar field, we also find
potential collapse models with intriguing scalar field evolution profiles.
