2021 Football Roster
Jersey Number 47
Deshawn Stevens
- Position:
- Linebacker
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 255
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Toronto, Ontario
- High School:
- Kent School
- Prev School:
- Maine
- 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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