Every step of the way, I thanked Him for putting me in this position, putting my team in this position, and I just thank Him for everything.. "I feel like we're going to be happy for each other because we know each other," said Dean. 17 would have been able to visit the engineering facility, make informal connections and even get the ball rolling on the idea of an internship program once he made it to the NFL. Can the Lions fix their defense? Without any structured oversight from the NCAA and loose restrictions varying from state to state, the world of NIL has become, in the words of one marketing agent, the Wild West. When NIL deals started rolling in, my priorities were having them still let me focus on football and whether there was a way to give through the deals, Dean told ESPN, which highlighted him sponsoring a bed at an Athens, Georgia, homeless shelter, and working with the Boys and Girls Club. Dean loves it. 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View Nakobe Dean's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Young threw for 369 yards and a touchdown, but he also tossed two interceptions his first collegiate game with multiple picks the second of which was returned 79 yards for a touchdown to seal the victory for the Bulldogs. "I feel like in high school they kind of asked that of me, to be able to cover running backs, to be able to cover receivers and stop the run and things of that sort, so when I got to college I got the same thing, but amplified, and I feel like in the league it will be the same thing," he said. For players like Dean, NIL has added another dimension to their college experience. The star linebacker was a straight-A student throughout his high school career. Thread starter jdecision21; Start date Today at 9:47 AM; Forums. Theres still a chance I might pursue pre-med if I feel like doing chemistry and everything when I get back to school., . Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) May 6, 2022. He thrives off a regimented schedule and loves to learn. It's been an absolute nightmare for opponents trying to move the ball. 13 overall. I have the passion to learn new things daily. The 6-foot, 225-pounder also was a Mechanical Engineering major at Georgia. It's going to mean a lot. Career Highs A day later, another NFL coach gushed about Dean, describing him as everyone youre looking for mentally in a linebacker., You can tell hes really been well-coached, said the coach, but you can also tell hes just a super bright kid, and it really translates on the field for him. "Growing up, my mother, it was always education, education, education. 2004-2023 CBS Interactive. Nakobe Dean and mother, Neketta Dean, left, during Georgia's Pro Day Dean left Georgia boasting a 3.5 GPA and has vowed to finish his mechanical engineering degree, which is roughly two semesters . It's not necessarily going to be a 'phewww, I finally did it' type thing, but more for me like 'okay, now it's time to get to work'.". Kayvon Thibodeaux's NFL fate is a mystery - but why? Dean stopped short of seeing how his studies in mechanical engineering may afford him unique insight into picking apart what opposing offenses are trying to do, but having such a demanding major has helped develop his mind to process so much information and manage everything that goes into staying on top of his game. Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Texas A&M, Baylor, Clemson, Duke, Florida, Florida State, Iowa, Memphis, Michigan, Mississippi State, Missouri, Nebraska, Ole Miss, South Alabama, Stanford, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt all wanted his services. . Three trades in a chaotic top five, The new law changing service academy football, and the coaches pushing back, Realignment chatter: How the Pac-12 holds the key to it all. David Gattie, a professor from @UGA_Engineering, because above all else, Dean wants to be an engineer. Dean has been recognized for his performance as a Butkus Award semifinalist and a midseason All-American by ESPN and CBS Sports. Dean views his service as a natural byproduct of where he has ended up. You definitely felt that from him, and we knew that about him before we even drafted him. His contribution will help upkeep the bed, food and showers for one individual for two months. Now, though, Dean can do all of those things and actually start and help fund internships for student-athletes right away, while also discussing the possibility of investing in the company in the near future. Nakobe Dean took his official visit to the University of Alabama this weekend and was thoroughly impressed. But what many people didnt hear a lot about was his classroom smarts. "For us, [NIL] hasn't really been about making money, it's about using this platform to help others.". Nakobe Dean was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles with the 83rd overall pick in the 2022 NFL draft. One prospect who could be the perfect fit in Foxboro is Georgia's Nakobe Dean. After all, he was once that kid at the local Boys & Girls Club going on field trips like the ones he took the kids from Athens on, taking everything in and wondering who he could one day be. Sign up for daily stories delivered to your inbox. Dean has made it there, though. The 2021 Butkus Award winner, All-America first team linebacker, and captain of the AFCA Good Works Team now has a big NFL draft decision to make. After all, the junior linebacker has a 3.5 GPA while majoring in mechanical engineering for a reason. The latest Eagles news straight to your inbox! "Because we only went over it one time.". Nakobe is both of those, said former Georgia defensive coordinator Dan Lanning, now Oregons head coach. Neketta, and his girlfriend, Gabby. Greaves: I was relieved to lose after 70-match win streak! Those who have known Dean since he was just a kid growing up in Horn Lake, Mississippi, would argue it has always been in him. ", As those on hand begin sifting through the cans, Neketta is organizing an assembly line in order to separate beans from soups and vegetables from mac and cheese. As a mechanical engineering student with a 4.0 GPA, hes also the play-caller for the defense and a projected first-round NFL draft pick. "Canned food drives, I've done about a thousand of them. This meant every time there was a community event, everyone knew Neketta's kids would be there. All the hard work you put in through the season, everything you had to do through the offseason, you knew that it worked," he continued. Brett Rojo-USA TODAY Sports, Sign up for the University of Georgia Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning. "But towards the end of my senior year (in high school) I wasn't leaning towards being a doctor as much as I was engineering, because that was numbers and math and putting things together, things like that. Georgia was second in total defense (254.4 yards per game) and ranked third nationally in passing yards allowed (172.7 yards per game) and in rushing defense (81.7 yards per game) in the regular season. #GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/bSaLVoyDyX, RELATED: Brock Bowers' 88-Yard TD Proved Georgia's Freshman Tight End is Special. Know your personnel. Classes are harder. First, though, things need to get organized, and Neketta is taking over, calling out orders and almost doing a play-by-play of what's going on. Dean has great instincts and speed, but he missed Georgias spring practice in 2021 with a torn labrum. The Dallas Cowboys' Micah Parsons has become a modern beacon in that respect as he play-wrecked primarily as an edge rusher in his Defensive Rookie of the Year-winning campaign. Dean recorded 71 tackles and 1.5 sacks last season. He goes where the ball goes, and the defense goes as he goes. It just symbolises the hard work I put in, but reminds me that it's not over, it's just getting started, I've got a lot more work to put in, the chip on my shoulder has done nothing but grow and I just got a lot of work to put in.". Next Pats Podcast:Georgia linebacker Nakobe Dean explains why he'd thrive with the Patriots |Listen & Follow|Watch on YouTube, "Growing up, my mother's team was the Patriots. To make prosthetic limbs for veterans in need. Older . I feel like I definitely enjoy talking ball with them. Most definitely, Sirianni said of their relationship helping with the NFL transition. A young boy says the words quietly like he's trying not to get caught. Job in Carlsbad - San Diego County - CA California - USA , 92002. 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Schumann returning to Georgia, Georgia's Nakobe Dean, Jordan Davis can transform Eagles' defense, Barnwell: Georgia just produced the most valuable college draft class ever. But things are indeed different now. And the money from other smaller deals or matching by companies, including his agency, have allowed Neketta to also do what she does best: more. Off the field, the new NIL rules allowed him to live out the values his mother, a lifetime community worker, instilled in him from an early age. As a five-star recruit considered by many to be the nations top insider linebacker prospect when he was coming out of Horns Lake, Dean had numerous scholarship offers from the top programs in the country. "All the physical things are on film, you can watch that and work me out. He was inspired and wanted to help make prosthetics for veterans in need. So, what else does Dean bring to the table? INDIANAPOLIS Earlier this month, the national champion Georgia Bulldogs turned the NFL Scouting Combine into their own showcase of freaky athleticism. I thought at a young age, Dang, whats a way I could help them build prosthetics? It kind of came back out when I was picking my major for college.. ", From the other end of the table, Dean smiles and quips, "Coach them up, mama. Before he does that, he figures to make a big impact on his new team. When the Philadelphia Eagles drafted Nakobe Dean, they knew about his hard-nosed playing style and confident leadership. Dean owns a 3.53 GPA in Mechanical Engineering and has been on the UGA Dean's List and SEC and Athletic Director Honor Roll. Georgia linebacker Nakobe Dean (17) Georgia defensive back Mark Webb (23) Athens, GA - The #3-ranked University of Georgia football team defeated ArkansasState, 55-0, in a game played on Dooley . North Carolina QB Sam Howell declares for NFL draft: [Life is] about living for Jesus . Daily Devotional: Tuesday, February 28 - How Bright Do You Shine? Dean took that, and decided to build a career on both. Dean recorded 71 tackles and 1.5 sacks last season. Change of direction is typically good. Those two soldiers have been through quite a few wars together. It was the defense who kept us in this game, said that former walk-on, QB Stetson Bennett, in his postgame press conference, while we were stumbling over our own feet the entire first half and then starting out in the second half. Design/Web/Multimedia. "That's Kobe Dean," she tells him. "I didn't think the safety would remember that was coming," Dean told Boyette. ", "For 99.9% of these kids, it's not necessarily like life-changing money, so they have to understand they need to put half of it away for taxes," says Zach Soskin, who founded a management company that facilitates NIL deals for college athletes. As Dean got older, he realized that they too had been the beneficiaries of other people's service when he was younger. "He's a math whiz," Neketta says. Was the team captain for the national champs. "I feel like my mindset is second to none, unmatched. There, she stood not just handing things out but talking to people about whatever was going on in their lives. Because I didn't have that coming up. Upon arriving at Georgia to focus on football he majored in mechanical engineering. He narrowed his choices to engineering and pre-med because of his interest in prosthetics. Can counter negative plays on film with splash plays. Smart, speedy linebacker who reads plays in a hurry and attacks. Copyright University of Georgia Wire 2023. Thats also a credit to Coach (Glenn) Schumann. 6-keys: media/spln/nfl/draft/free/stories, at Nakobe is different in general. Dean valued academics as much as competing for a national championship when choosing his college destination. NFL Georgia junior inside linebacker Nakobe Dean was the surprise recipient of the 37th Butkus Award on Sunday. That defense is led by junior inside linebacker Nakobe Dean, whos a team captain and the winner of the 2021 Butkus Award, given to the nations top linebacker. He smiles. There are hundreds of canned goods sprawled out on a table outside of the Boys & Girls Club in Athens from the watch party the night before. Then you decompress, watch film, and then, you have to go do something hard like that math. Welcome to the team !. MechSE professor Katie Matlack was named one of this year's recipients of The Grainger College of Engineering Dean's Award for Excellence in Research. 1 state ranking and the 2018 MHSAA Class 6A State title, the first in Horn Lakes history2018 Mississippi Mr. Football for Class 6A2018 National Lineman of the Year by the Touchdown Club of Atlantahad 175 total tackles, along with 26 tackles for loss, seven sacks, three INTs and two forced fumbles as a senioralso had nine TDs as an RB for the Eaglesselected to represent the Team Elite team in Nikes The Opening 2018 Finalstallied 147 total stops, 25 TFLs and nine sacks as a juniorracked up 438 total tackles, 61.5 tackles for loss, 18 sacks, six INTs and 12 total TDs in his Horn Lake careeralso competed on varsity baseball, basketball and track teams at different points in high school. "My mom said I would have loved it.". "Words can't describe how proud I am, just coming where I come from, growing up that's all we talked about, being able to make it out and then come back and give back to my community so I do look forward to going back whenever I can," he says. "But to have both at that age, that has only happened to me one time, and it was with Nakobe.". (via @Eagles) pic.twitter.com/AmVs4zkRY3, Theres a joke in there somewhere about Nakobe Deans injury list, his NFL Draft drop before the Eagles picked him in the third round, and pursuing the opportunity to help himself regenerate.I made it on the Dawg Walk Talk Podcast this past week. Alabama averaged 494.6 offensive yards per game this season, and in the SEC Championship Game on Dec. 4 against Georgia, it gained 536 total yards. To watch him play football is to understand that though the grass under his feet is the same as his opponents, and even his teammates, he is operating on a different plane altogether. "One of my goals next season is to establish myself as one of the best linebackers in the NFL. Ever since the NCAA approved name, image and likeness deals for college athletes in June, the money has been moving in broad daylight. That's my thing.". Check out the latestepisode of theNext Pats Podcaston the NBC Sports Boston Podcast Network, orwatch on YouTubebelow: Georgia LB Nakobe Dean explains why he'd thrive with Patriots. I want to get into designing prosthetics, he said, but I am open because I know there are a lot of avenues you can get into with mechanical engineering.. Within that, there would well be at least five first-rounders. (Dean) ran with him stride for stride and then makes the tackle in open space. Looks like I have a new favorite player . He's the extra blitzer needed in Jonathan Gannon's defense. 10:57 pm ET, NFL combine burning questions: Young's size and more, C.J. or 'Why did you do that?'" Dean was a five-star recruit out of Horn Lake High School in Horn Lake, Mississippi. "I took my education just as serious as I took my sports," Dean said. Just things like that kind of help me basically -- it's like a puzzle piece, you kind of put it together and it definitely helps me out a lot.". News, Interviews, Comment & Analysis @ch_skysports. Members of the Bulldogs defense put on a dazzling display, from 304-pound Devonte Wyatts blazing 4.77 40 to 6-foot-5, 272-pound fellow defensive lineman Travon Walker running a 4.51 40, vertical jumping 35-5 inches, and timing a 6.89 in the 3-Cone, to 230-pound linebacker Channing Tindall running a 4.47 40 and vertical jumping 42 inches, to 6-foot-6, 341-pound behemoth Jordan Davis clocking an unbelievable 4.78 40 with a 32-inch vertical and a 10-3 broad jump. Skip to main content . Brad Boyette, Dean's high school coach at Horn Lake High in Mississippi, remembers showing up to the annual practice the high school would hold with the eighth-graders from the local middle school and being immediately taken by Dean's ability to pick up not just drills, but coverages that would normally take kids at his level a few days of practice. Head coach Nick Sirianni only got see Dean for a few snaps on Friday. The type of three-down playmaking linebacker you want today. 17 . Her goal was two-fold -- raise money for the football program and bring officers into a shared space with a football team that was largely Black. src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=674090812743125&ev=PageView&noscript=1"/>. In the midst of all the hoopla, Dean still can't turn off the part of his brain that gravitates toward the ball. Mechanical engineering emerged as the winner. I used to see veterans who lost limbs and everything. Instead, it was like a one-yard gain.. AS THEY GET ready to leave the shelter, Dean signs his sponsored bed, and a woman who is staying there asks him to sign two Georgia hats for two girls who were unable to be there. What comes second nature to Dean is what Neketta has been doing her whole life. But after a man walked up to her asking for money for blankets ahead of the cold front, she took the leftover money from NIL deals and, with Dean's approval, bought blankets and Chick-fil-A sandwiches and made hygiene packages to give out at the shelter. Dean has been described as "selfless' and a culture changer." All Rights Reserved. Dean has been quizzed on both a lot. "So I used that, I actually wanted to go into the field of prosthetics with it. Thats definitely one less thing. Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Honours) at Newcastle University is affordable for international students. The New England Patriots have multiple needs heading to this month's NFL Draft, inside linebacker perhaps chief among them. "So I wanted to make that easier while also showing these kids that, even though they might want to grow up and play sports right now, there are also other avenues you can use to be successful if you don't make it on the field.". She won in the assistant professor category. The Eagles announced the jersey numbers for their five rookies prior on the first day of minicamp. It was a tall task, but the Bulldogs chances rode on their top-ranked defense and how well it could slow the Crimson Tides high-powered offense. The 21-year-old said he is two semesters away, about 33 more credit hours, from getting his degree. Dean is majoring in mechanical engineering, but that did not stop him from picking an Alabama hat after the national championship. The Georgia Bulldogs have offered a scholarship to standout LB Carter Jones. 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