Senior linebacker for Georgia State. 2020: 63 tackles, 8 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks.
6′1″ · 230 lb · Charlotte, NC
Recruiting
ILB recruit
No. 2375 nationally · Signed with Georgia State
Statement game20 tacklesvs Army (FBS) · W 28-21
Top 0.1% tackles game since 2021.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 linebacker for Georgia State. 2020: 63 tackles, 8 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks.
Trajan Stephens-McQueen
2 stars out of high school, four seasons of real snaps at Georgia State since. 2020 brought the first one: All-Sun Belt. The receipt: 11 tackles, 1 TFL against South Alabama — Week 12, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Four seasons at Georgia State, 258 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Nobody recruited him. He earned the honors anyway.
Career arc
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SUN BELT
All-Sun Belt mention (2020)
Coaching lineage · 2017–2020
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Shawn Elliott.
Season context · Team result + system
4 seasons under Shawn Elliott — 22-25 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: tackles for loss (94th percentile). Strength: tackles (93rd percentile). Concern: passes defended (21st percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home4g | 5.8 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 8.8 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 5.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 8.4 | 1.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Dell McGee
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Picked for an all-conference team by at least one selector.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Georgia State | 63 | 37 | 8.0 | 1.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Georgia State | 107 | 60 | 8.0 | 2.0 | 3 | 2 | -- |
| 2018 | Georgia State | 50 | 23 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2017 | Georgia State | 38 | 16 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 2 | -- | -- |
| Career | 258 | 136 | 19.0 | 4.0 | 6 | 2 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 8 · 2020
W 36–34
at Troy
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 3 | L 31-34vs Louisiana | 6 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 49-29vs East Carolina | 5 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | L 52-59@ Arkansas State | 5 | 2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 36-34@ Troy | 9 | 8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | L 0-51vs Coastal Carolina | 6 | 3 | 2.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 13-17@ App State | 10 | 5 | 2.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 12 | W 31-14@ South Alabama | 11 | 6 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Wk 13 | W 30-24vs Georgia Southern | 6 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 58 | 35 | 8.0 | 1.5 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
58 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 8 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
Player DNA