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SENIOR (2021) – Named All-Mountain West Honorable Mention... Appeared in 12 games, making 86.0 tackles and recovering five fumbles along with forcing four fumbles... Third on the team with 86.0 tackles including leading the team with 67.0 solo tackles and third on the team with 19.0 assists... Made 5.0 tackles for loss of 17 yards... Posted four pass breakups... Notched season-high 14 tackles at Colorado State on Nov. 27 with a season-high nine solo tackles and five assists. 

JUNIOR (2020) – Played in all nine games, making 17 tackles and recovering a fumble ... Made a season-high 11 tackles (10 solo), with one for loss, against Fresno State (Dec. 5).
 
SOPHOMORE (2019) – Had a breakout season for the Wolf Pack, playing in all 13 games … Recorded a career-high 40 tackles with 23 of them being unassisted … Named one of the team’s Newcomers of the Year … Finished with four tackles for loss, totaling 27 yards … Two of those TFLs came at Fresno State … Racked up five tackles against the Bulldogs … Recorded his first-career interception at UTEP … Led Nevada with nine tackles in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, a career-high for him … His nine stops in the bowl game were the seventh-most by a single player in a bowl game in Nevada history … Earned Academic All-MW honors.
 
FRESHMAN (2018) – Played in all 12 regular season games for the Wolf Pack… Recorded four tackles total with two unassisted and two assisted … Member of Nevada’s 2018 Arizona Bowl victory team … Earned Academic All-MW honors.
 
HIGH SCHOOL – Graduated from Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas where he was a two-sport athlete in football and track & field … Helped his team to back-to-back state championships and to a track & field state championship in 2018 … Earned first team all-state honors his senior year after compiling 36 tackles, one sack, eight interceptions and scored three touchdowns.
 
PERSONAL – Son of Rhonda Lee and Jarred Stephens … Has two younger sisters, Chloe and Carter … Public health major … Chose Nevada because it was the only Division I school to recruit him … Lists Adrian Peterson and Tyrann Mathieu as his sports heroes … The most memorable moment of his pre-college career was a game vs. DeMatha where he got his first sack … Enjoys playing paintball in his free time.