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JaCoby Stevens, DS #13 OLB, LSU 
Selected: Round 6, Pick 40, Overall Pick 224 by Eagles
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Name: JaCoby Stevens
College: LSU Number: 3
Height: 6-1 Weight: 212
Position: OLB Pos2: FS/SS
Class/Draft Year: Sr/2021
40 Low: 4.54 40 Time: 4.62 40 High: 4.68
> Projected Round: 4-5 Stock: 
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Combine Invite: Yes
Height: 6011
Weight: 212
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Dates: 03/31/21
Hand: 09 1/4 Arm: 31 3/4
Wingspan: 77 3/8
Height: 6011
Weight: 212
40 Yrd Dash: 4.62
20 Yrd Dash: 2.69
10 Yrd Dash: 1.68
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Broad Jump: 10'10"
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40 Time Range: 4.58-4.66/Projected 4.52/No Full Workout or Bench-Choice
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Data Scout Notes: 2020: NAC...PNagurski/PThorpe/PLott/PBednarik/PWuerffel...2019: 2ndC...2nd team All-SEC w/92 TT, 9 TFL, 5 SCK, 3 INT, 6 PBU, 2 QBH in 15 gms in '19. 35 TT, 6.5 TFL, 1.5 SCK, INT, 5 PBU, FR in 4 sts, 11 gms in '18. Backup S/WR w/2-32-16.0-0 rec in 1 st, 6
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JaCoby Stevens, LSU, Player News
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Orgeron said he's pleased with the team's pass rush - tied 18th nationally with an average of three sacks per game - but changes may be made to stop the run. "I think it's all about playing bigger guys up front and playing better technique," Orgeron said . The coaching staff is also still trying to find the best way to use starting safety JaCoby Stevens. Orgeron didn't mention any specific moves, but he said he had Monday meetings with both Stevens and his coaching staff. "They know that we need to put h im in better positions for him to make plays and use the talents that he has," Orgeron said. The 6-foot-2, 230-pound senior has been a hybrid playmaker for LSU. Sometimes Stevens plays deep, but he's mostly used as a rusher near the line of scrimmage. Or geron has said Stevens plays best closer to the ball, and, so far, Stevens is LSU's second-leading tackler (22) and leads the team in sacks (2). - Baton Rouge Advocate
(DS#13 OLB) Sr/2021  OLB JaCoby Stevens, LSU
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LSU is out of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time since 2017 and is the first defending national champion to drop from the rankings in nine years. No. 1 Clemson, No. 2 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia held steady at the top of the rank ings Sunday, setting up a top-three matchup Saturday when the Crimson Tide hosts the Bulldogs. Clemson received 59 first-place votes. Alabama got two and Georgia one. Notre Dame moved up to No. 4 and North Carolina is No. 5. LSU dropped out from No. 17 a fter falling to 1-2 with a 45-41 loss at previously winless Missouri. The Tigers had been ranked in 43 straight polls, dating to Nov. 5, 2017. That was the seventh-longest active streak in the nation. - AP College Football
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The comment from LSU coach Ed Orgeron understandably drew a fair amount of attention. A little more than a week before the start of the Southeastern Conference season, Orgeron was talking about his new defensive coordinator, former Nebraska coach Bo Peli ni. "We are so much better on defense right now than any part of the season last year," Orgeron said then. Three weeks into this season, results suggest otherwise. It has become abundantly clear LSU won't be defending its national championship and Orgero n's star-turn might be short-lived. The 17th-ranked Tigers fell to 1-2, upset for the second time this season by an SEC underling. First it was Mississippi State. On Saturday, it was Missouri, playing with a freshman quarterback and missing both its star ting receivers, that tore up the Bayou Bengals. "We couldn’t stop anybody. Really poor showing on defense," Orgeron said. - AP College Football
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LSU allowed a Southeastern Conference-record 623 yards passing against Mississippi State on Saturday in Tiger Stadium, and while preventing such production requires the entire defense, the Tigers' secondary struggled in a season-opening 44-34 loss. Missi ssippi State quarterback K.J. Costello torched LSU's defensive backfield. Playing his first SEC game since transferring from Stanford, Costello thrived in the Bulldogs' new Air Raid offense by attacking No. 6 LSU's young defensive backs. Costello threw f ive touchdown passes. "Embarrassing," senior safety JaCoby Stevens said. "It's like going into a boxing ring and getting knocked out."LSU had to play without sophomore All-American cornerback Derek Stingley Jr., who was hospitalized overnight Frid ay after becoming "acutely ill," LSU said in a statement released Saturday morning. Stingley, whose condition wasn't related to the coronavirus, was suddenly unavailable. The absence of one of the best cornerbacks in college football forced LSU to rely o n inexperienced players, and they faltered in man coverage. Coach Ed Orgeron said LSU had "too many missed assignments," allowing Mississippi State players to run wide open. "We have no excuses," Orgeron said. - Baton Rouge Advocate
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The new scheme in Bo Pelini's return to the program as defensive coordinator flopped in its debut. Mississippi State quarterback K.J. Costello set a single-game SEC record with the yardage total, and his five touchdown passes often exploited young and in experienced LSU defensive backs that couldn't keep up in man coverage. "We couldn't stay with their guys," Orgeron said. Yes, LSU played without its All-American cornerback, Derek Stingley, who spent Friday night in a hospital with a non-coronavirus rela ted illness. Yes, Stingley was initially replaced by Nicholls State graduate transfer Darren Evans, who joined the program less than a month ago. Yes, sophomore Jay Ward didn't practice in camp for two weeks after a "minor operation," Orgeron said, and " was a little behind." But Stevens said the excuses wear out as the points and the yardage starts to pile on. The conversation on the sideline started with "keep your head up, go to the next play," Stevens said. "But as the game goes on, you've got to tel l those guys, 'Hey, it's time to step up. You're not a young guy anymore. You've got to represent Louisiana. You're playing for LSU." "We had too many missed assignments," Orgeron said, "and we've got to look at why we're having the missed assignments, w hat's causing them. Too many guys are running free. Too many guys are getting beat one-on-one. We've just got to go back to looking at if we can cover man-to-man. If we can't, we've got to make a decision to play some zone." - Baton Rouge Advocate
(DS#13 OLB) Sr/2021 OLB JaCoby Stevens, LSU
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2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: JaCoby Stevens, LSU,...Stevens makes plays all over the field as a roaming safety...LSU's most productive defender in 2019 with 85 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, 5.0 sacks and three interceptions...Second team All-SEC selecti on from the SEC Coaches as a junior in 2019. - LSU Football
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The Southeastern Conference has launched a league-wide council dedicated to racial equity and social justice, the league announced Thursday. The council is made up of players, administrators, coaches and SEC staff. The council will include more than 60 a thletes who are in the SEC's existing student-athlete engagement program, plus administrative leaders from each campus and head coaches from each sport. Dr. Dereck Rovaris, LSU's Vice Provost for Diversity and the school's Chief Diversity Officer, and vo lleyball head coach Fran Flory will represent LSU on the council.LSU safety JaCoby Stevens initiated a player-led movement in early June for every football player to register to vote. Stevens said LSU coach Ed Orgeron has been actively supporting, addressing it in team meetings, sending out text messages making sure the players registered. "Right now, we're just kind of waiting for the time to vote," Stevens said Wednesday. "With Coach O, he's kind of taken charge of it and he really backed us on it." - Baton Rouge Advocate
(DS#13 OLB) Sr/2021 OLB JaCoby Stevens, LSU
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2020 WUERFFEL TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: JaCoby Stevens, LSU, senior, defensive back,...Stevens, a senior from Murfreesboro, Tenn., earned second team All-SEC honors in 2019 as well as being named the SEC Defensive Player of the Week three times. He's LSU's top returning tackler from a year ago as he recorded 92 tackles to go along with 9.0 tackles for loss, 5.0 sacks and three interceptions. In the classroom, Stevens is scheduled to graduate in December with a degree in sports administration.O ff the field, Stevens has been active in many community service events in the Baton Rouge area and most recently Initiated and organized the register to vote campaign for the LSU football team that saw 100 percent of the Tigers register to vote as a resu lt of this campaign. He's also participated in Strong Men Academy, an organization that works with middle school and high school at-risk kids in Baton Rouge area and he helped prepare for the arrival of Tropical Storm Cristobal in spring of 2020 by spend ing a day filling sand bags. - LSU Football
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2020 PAYCOM JIM THORPE AWARD PRESEASON WATCH LIST: Derek Stingley, Jr., LSU, So.,...Stingley established himself as the top rookie defender in college football in 2019, leading the Southeastern Conference in both interceptions (6) and passes defended (21 ). He was a consensus All-America selection and played a vital role in LSU having the most dominant season in college football history, going 15-0 and capturing the national title with a win over Clemson in the CFP National Championship Game. - LSU Footb all
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2020 PAYCOM JIM THORPE AWARD PRESEASON WATCH LIST: JaCoby Stevens, LSU, Sr.,...Stevens, a senior from Murfreesboro, Tenn., earned second team All-SEC honors in 2019 as well as being named the SEC Defensive Player of the Week three times. He's LSU's top r eturning tackler from a year ago as he recorded 92 tackles to go along with 9.0 tackles for loss, 5.0 sacks and three interceptions. - LSU Football
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2020 BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: DB JaCoby Stevens, LSU,...Versatile defensive back that can play either in the post or near the line of scrimmage...LSU's "quarterback" on the defensive side of the ball...Makes plays all over the field a s a roaming safety...LSU's most productive defender in 2019 with 85 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, 5.0 sacks and three interceptions...Second team All-SEC selection from the SEC Coaches as a junior in 2019. - LSU Football
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2020 LOTT IMPACT TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: JACOBY STEVENS, LSU, S, 6-1, 228, Murfreesboro, TN: All-SEC (2nd team); 85 tackles, 8.5 for losses, 4 interceptions last year; 127 career tackles; community-oriented. - Lott Impact Trophy
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2020 PRESEASON BEDNARIK AWARD WATCH LIST: S JaCoby Stevens, LSU,...Stevens, a senior, enters his third season as a starter for LSU in 2020. Stevens earned SEC Defensive Player of the Week honors three times in 2019 and was a second team All-SEC selection for the national champion Tigers. Stevens is LSU's leading returning tackler in 2020 as he racked up 92 tackles to go with 9.0 tackles for loss and 5.0 sacks a year ago. - LSU Football
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If Bill Hancock is anything, it is consistent. The executive director of the College Football Playoff said the plan hasn't changed for the CFP even as reports of a shortened season have circulated. Last week, The New York Times reported the 2020 season c ould be shortened so that conference championship games would be completed by Thanksgiving. Hancock, who joined Lee Shirvanian and me on "The Opening Kickoff" on WNSP-FM 105.5 on Monday, re-iterated the upcoming CFP schedule hasn't changes. The committee will meet in person for the weekly evaluations this season, and the games are still a go for January."We are still planning to play the semifinals Jan. 1 and the championship game Jan. 11," Hancock said. "(NCAA president) Dr. (Mark) Emmert and th e NCAA have many decisions to make just like everyone in college athletics. "One thing the NCAA has to decide is what to do with the fall championships. The NCAA has shown a lot of flexibility to help everyone get through this, and I think they'll contin ue to do that, but we're still planning to play Jan. 1 and Jan. 11." Hancock said the CFP committee and boards have not talked about the report as a group, citing it is "too soon to speculate." - Birmingham News
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With less than a week until LSU players can return to campus for summer workouts, head coach Ed Orgeron spoke to 104.5 ESPN's Off the Bench Tuesday morning to discuss position battles between his players. Orgeron also offered insight on his talented seco ndary and defensive line group, and how safety JaCoby Stevens is his "strongest player." There's so many things that we can do with him. I'm so happy he's back. I think pound-for-pound, JaCoby Stevens is our strongest player. He's a great rusher, he's st rong in the weight room - can do a lot of things... We've been looking for a big safety and JaCoby is 6-1, 230. You know, [Bo Pelini] talked to me. We looked at the safety board and he said 'get me a LaRon Landry,' and I said 'I'm looking for him, I prom ise you.' No question. - Baton Rouge Advocate
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Going into last season, the motivation for the LSU football team was that it was chock full of players and coaches who no one else wanted. The record-tying 14 Tigers selected in last month's NFL draft seemed to contradict that notion, but there is new mo tivation for 2020, senior safety JaCoby Stevens says: The Tigers don't want to be perceived as "one-hit wonders." "For spring ball, we were ready to get back and prove people wrong," Stevens said Monday night on LSU's in-house radio show "LSU Sixty." "As soon as we won they said we were one-year wonders. For those of us who were coming back, it was time to step up and take that to heart. "When it comes time for us to prove them wrong, we're going to do that."LSU spring practice came to an abrupt halt in March after just three of the NCAA-mandated 15 sessions because of the coronavirus pandemic, with the spring game set for April 18 at Southern's A.W. Mumford Stadium also canceled. Now Stevens, who has been working out on his own, hopes the mantr a will carry over to when the Tigers begin practicing for the 2020 season. He did not speculate on when that would be. "The smart thing to say would be history repeats itself," he said. - Baton Rouge Advocate
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LSU football will retain several key pieces of its national championship team, including several on the defensive side that newly hired coordinator Bo Pelini is excited to inherit. Pelini, who was hired in the offseason to replace former defensive coordi nator Dave Aranda, spoke Wednesday on local radio show "Hangin' With Hester." The show was hosted by former LSU players Jacob Hester and T-Bob Hebert, who were both on the Tigers' 2007 national championship team when Pelini was in his first stint in Bato n Rouge. Pelini spoke on a number of topics, including what he expects from cornerback Derek Stingley Jr., who earned All-America honors as a true freshman last season. "He's not one of those guys who's gonna rest on his laurels and say 'I've arrived,' " Pelini said on the show. "I think he's only scratched the surface on how good he's gonna be."Another player Pelini was asked about is safety JaCoby Stevens, another member of LSU's vaunted secondary. As a junior in 2019, Stevens was one of LSU's most productive defensive backs with 85 tackles, 8½ tackles for loss, fives sacks and three interceptions. "He's going to be a guy the NFL - they're just going to be standing in line to try to get this guy on their football team because he can do so man y things," Pelini said. "He's tough, he's physical, he's smart. He's got a lot of potential." - Baton Rouge Advocate
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LSU has hired Sean Baker as an analyst, according to the university's official staff directory. Baker spent three seasons at Youngstown State working under then-head coach Bo Pelini, who was hired as LSU's defensive coordinator in January. In 2017, Baker started out as a defensive quality control coach at Youngstown State, and he was elevated to an on-field role coaching linebackers the following two seasons. A former safety at Ball State from 2008-2011, Baker was named first-team All-Mid-American Confe rence as a senior, and he set the school's career record with 18 interceptions. Baker signed as an undrafted free agent with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2012, and he spent five seasons in the NFL with the Bucs, Atlanta Falcons, Indianapolis Colts and Cle veland Browns. - Baton Rouge Advocate
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2019 ALL-SEC SECOND TEAM (COACHES): DB Jacoby Stevens, LSU,...The All-SEC second team featured three LSU defenders in Lawrence (23 tackles, 5.0 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks), Stevens, who was named the SEC Defensive Player of the Week three times this yea r and Stingley, who led the SEC in both interceptions (6) and passes defended (21). - LSU Football
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NOV 25 SEC DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Jacoby Stevens, LB, LSU,...Set career-highs for sacks (3.0) and tackles for loss (4.0) in the 56-20 win over Arkansas...Posted 8 total tackles as the Tigers limited the Razorbacks to 304 total yards (114 rushing, 190 passing)...His sacks came on three consecutive possessions to start the second half and led to Arkansas punts on each possession...Sacks went for losses of 7, 11 and 10 yards in the third quarter...Added a tackle for an 8-yard loss in the second quar ter...Accounted for 34 yards in losses for Arkansas ... Had a QB hurry as well. - SEC Football
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OCT 28/WEEK 9 SEC CO-DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Jacoby Stevens, S, LSU,...Led LSU with 10 tackles as the Tigers won their third game against a Top 10 opponent, beating Auburn 23-20 in Tiger Stadium....Paced an LSU defense that held Auburn to 287 total yards (130 rushing, 157 passing)...Auburn went into the game leading the SEC in rushing offense at 240 yards per game...In second half and after Auburn took a 13-10 lead, LSU's defense forced Auburn to punt on six consecutive possessions as LSU regained the lead, extending its advantage to 23-13 during that span...LSU held Auburn to 5-of-18 on third-down opportunities and forced Auburn to punt 10 times. - SEC Football
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OCT 21/WEEK 8 SEC CO-DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Jacoby Stevens, S, LSU,...Had 8 tackles, a sack for a 1-yard loss and a spectacular one-handed interception in leading LSU to a 36-13 win over Mississippi State...Interception came just before halftime a nd led to an LSU touchdown and a 22-7 lead just five plays later...Sack came on a 3-and-4 situation in the third quarter and forced Mississippi State to punt...Overall, LSU forced three turnovers and held Mississippi State to 340 total yards and just 3-o f-12 on third-down opportunities. - SEC Football
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