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UMaine’s top linebacker enters NCAA transfer portal
Deshawn Stevens, the Black Bears leading tackler this spring, wants to play for a Football Bowl Subdivision program.
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University of Maine linebacker Deshawn Stevens has entered the NCAA transfer portal as a grad student, hoping to catch on with a Football Bowl Subdivision program.
Stevens has been one of Maine’s best defensive players throughout his career. He led the team in tackles in 2018, when the Black Bears advanced to the Football Championship Subdivision semifinals, and again in the abbreviated 2020 spring season.
Stevens, who will receive a degree in history at Maine’s graduation ceremonies this spring, missed virtually all of the 2019 season when he suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in his right leg in the second quarter of the season opener.