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2021 Football Roster

Deshawn Stevens #47 LB

  • Position:
    Linebacker
  • Height:
    6-2
  • Weight:
    255
  • Class:
    Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown:
    Toronto, Ontario
  • High School:
    Kent School
  • Prev School:
    Maine
  • Instagram:
    @Dags_647
  • Twitter:
    @dags_647

Summary

Biography

  • Selected with the sixth pick of the first round of the Canadian Football League’s Draft
  • Transferred to WVU from the University of Maine in 2021 summer

2020 (Sr.)

  • Played for coach Nick Charlton at Maine
  • Selected to HERO Sports Preseason All-American Second Team
  • Phil Steele 2020 Preseason All-CAA First Team
  • Saw action in all four games of a COVID-19 shortened season
  • Led the Black Bear defense with 36 tackles, including 13 unassisted and a pass breakup
  • Registered 10 tackles, including five solo stops against Delaware
  • Had 12 tackles and one pass breakup against Albany

2019 (r-Jr.)

  • Voted 2019 team captain
  • Appeared in one game before suffering a season-ending injury in Maine's season opener against Sacred Heart (8/30)
  • Registered five tackles in the season opener

2018 (r-So.)

  • 2018 All-CAA Second Team selection
  • FCS HERO Sports Sophomore All-American First Team
  • Named team's Walter Abbott Most Outstanding Defensive Player
  • Started all 14 games
  • Statistically, had one of the best defensive seasons in Maine football history
  • Led the Black Bears with 120 tackles to go along with 17.0 tackles for loss, 9.0 sacks, two fumble recoveries, a forced fumble, two pass breakups and an interception
  • Ranked third in the CAA in total tackles and tackles per game (8.6)
  • Tied for fifth-best in the CAA in total sacks
  • Ranked second in the CAA in tackles for loss, averaging 1.21 per game
  • Finished the season 41st in all of FCS in sacks per game (0.64), 49th in total tackles per game, and 52nd in tackles for loss per game
  • Tallied double-digit tackle totals in four games, including a career-high 16 stops against Elon
  • Registered two or more tackles for loss on four occasions, including career-highs of 2.5 against Villanova and at William & Mary
  • Recorded at least a half sack in eight of Maine's 14 games
  • Notched a career-high 2.0 sacks against Villanova
  • Tallied 12 stops, a sack and forced a fumble at Rhode Island
  • Returned a fumble 50-yards for a score at Western Kentucky
  • Tallied his first career interception at Central Michigan
  • Racked up 10 tackles, 2.5 for loss, with a sack at William & Mary
  • Finished with 10 stops in Maine's home playoff win over Jacksonville State
  • Tallied nine stops, 2.0 for loss, in a quarterfinal victory at Weber State

2017 (r-Fr.)

  • Appeared in all 10 games with three starts
  • Ranked fifth on the team with 50 tackles, including 21 solo and 29 assisted
  • Had a team-high 14 tackles against Delaware
  • Also added double-digit tackle totals against UMass (12) and Stony Brook (11); closing the season with double-digit tackle totals in each of his last three games
  • Added 4.5 tackles for loss and 2.5 sacks with a fumble recovery and a pass breakup
  • Notched his first solo sack at UAlbany
  • Recovered a fumble at James Madison

2016 (Fr.)

  • Redshirted as a freshman
  • Maine Defensive Scout Team Player of the Year

High School

  • Played for coach Connor Wells at the Kent School
  • Erickson Conference Defensive Player of the Year
  • All-New England and All-Conference linebacker
  • Team captain at Kent
  • Two-time captain of the Canadian National Team

Personal

  • Son of Selvin Stevens and Andrea Anderson
  • One of 10 children (4 brothers, 5 sisters)
  • Graduated from Maine with his bachelor’s degree in history and minor in child development
  • Working on second bachelor’s degree in integraded studies

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