| Oregon Ducks–No. 2 | |
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| Position | Inside linebacker |
| Class | Senior |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | September 20, 2002 |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Weight | 232 lb (105 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College |
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| Bowl games | |
| High school | Kearns (Kearns, Utah) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Jeffrey Bassa (born September 20, 2002) [1] is an American college football linebacker for the Oregon Ducks.
Bassa grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah and attended Kearns High School, where he lettered in football, basketball and track and field. Coming out of high school, Bassa committed to play college football for the Oregon Ducks over offers from schools such as Arizona, Arizona State, Baylor, Hawai’i, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon State, Syracuse, UNLV, and Washington State. [2]
In Bassa's first two seasons in 2021 and 2022, he notched 110 tackles with seven and a half being for a loss, three sacks, a pass deflections, and two interceptions. [3] In the final minutes of Oregon's week 2 matchup, he returned an interception 45 yards for a touchdown in a win over Texas Tech. [4] In the 2024 Fiesta Bowl, Bassa led the Ducks with eight tackles, adding one for a loss, in a win over Liberty, earning game defensive MVP honors. [5] In 2023, he amassed 71 tackles with three and a half being for a loss, a pass deflection, an interception, and a touchdown, [6] earning second-team all-Pac-12 Conference honors. [7]
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | 10-yard split | Three-cone drill | Vertical jump | Broad jump | Bench press | |||
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| 6 ft 1+1⁄8 in (1.86 m) | 232 lb (105 kg) | 31+3⁄8 in (0.80 m) | 9+1⁄4 in (0.23 m) | 4.63 s | 1.59 s | 7.34 s | 38.5 in (0.98 m) | 9 ft 10 in (3.00 m) | 21 reps | |||
| All values from NFL Combine [8] [9] [10] | ||||||||||||