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Profile

  • DE
    Position
  • Graduate Student
    Class
  • Youngstown, Ohio
    Hometown
  • 6'3
    Height
  • 230
    Weight
  • East HS/Bowling Green
    High School
Blaine Spires
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Blaine Spires
DE
Position
Graduate Student
Class
Youngstown, Ohio
Hometown

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Summary

Biography

HONORS
Academic All-Mountain West (2023).

CAREER NOTES
Played in 45 career games with 24 starts at Bowling Green (2019-22) and Utah State (2023-24) … recorded 98 tackles (51 solo), which included 8.5 sacks and 20.5 tackles for loss, to go along with four fumble recoveries, two forced fumbles and two pass breakups.

SINGLE-SEASON RECORDS
Recovered three fumbles during the 2023 season, which is tied for ninth-most in a single season in school history.

2024 (SENIOR SEASON)
Started each of the first four games of the season before missing the remainder of the year to injury … finished the season with eight tackles (4 solo), which included 1.0 sacks and 3.0 tackles for loss, to go along with two quarterback hurries … had three tackles, including 1.0 sacks, in the season opener against Robert Morris (8/31) … recorded three tackles, including 1.0 tackles for loss, against No. 12 Utah (9/14) … had 1.0 tackles for loss and two quarterback hurries at Temple (9/21).

2023 (JUNIOR SEASON)
Played in 12 games with three starts … finished the season with 27 tackles (13-solo), which included 5.0 sacks and 8.5 tackles for loss, while adding three fumble recoveries, one forced fumble, one pass breakup and a team-best 10 quarterback hurries … led the team in fumble recoveries and was second in both sacks and tackles for loss ... had a season high five tackles, including 0.5 tackles for loss, to go along with a career high three quarterback hurries and a fumble recovery against Colorado State (10/7) … had a career high 2.0 sacks at New Mexico (11/24) … had four tackles, including 1.0 sacks, against Nevada (11/11) … had three tackles, including 1.0 sacks, and a fumble recovery at San José State (10/21) … had three tackles, including 0.5 tackles for loss, three quarterback hurries and a fumble recovery against James Madison (9/23) … recorded a tackle for loss in eight games on the season and a sack in four of the last seven games … was second in the Mountain West and sixth in the nation in fumbles recovered with three (0.25 pg), and 10th in the MW in sacks with 5.0 (0.42 pg) … earned academic All-MW honors.

PREVIOUS SCHOOL
Spent four years (2019-22) at Bowling Green as he appeared in 30 games with 17 starts, recording 66 tackles, which included 2.5 sacks and 10.0 tackles for loss, to go along with one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and one pass breakup ... recorded 20 tackles, which included 1.0 sacks and 3.0 tackles for loss, during the 2022 season as he played in 13 games with six starts ... started all 11 games he played in during the 2021 season, as he recorded 35 tackles, which included 1.5 sacks and 5.0 tackles for loss, to go along with one pass breakup, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery ... played in five games in 2020 and finished the year with 11 tackles, which included 2.0 tackles for loss ... appeared in one game during his redshirt season in 2019.

HIGH SCHOOL
Earned second-team Division IV All-Northeast Inland District honors on the defensive line following his senior season at East High School in Youngstown, Ohio.

PERSONAL
Graduated from Utah State with a bachelor's degree in integrated studies.
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