| Position | Tight end |
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| Class |  |
| Major | Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | February 22, 2002 Marietta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) |
| Weight | 260 lb (118 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College | |
| Bowl games | |
| High school | Marietta (GA) |
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Arik Dasan Gilbert (born February 22, 2002) is a former American football tight end for the Nebraska Cornhuskers. He has also played for both the LSU Tigers and Georgia Bulldogs.
Gilbert attended Marietta High School in Marietta, Georgia. [1] As a senior, he was the Gatorade Football Player of the Year after he caught 101 passes for 1,760 yards and 14 touchdowns. [2] [3] For his career he had 243 receptions for 3,540 yards and 35 touchdowns. A five-star recruit, Gilbert was ranked among the top players in his class and committed to Louisiana State University (LSU) to play college football. [4] [5] [6]
As a freshman, Gilbert first played for LSU. Before the season, Gilbert was predicted to be on the Freshman All-SEC Team. Gilbert started all eight games he played in, catching 35 passes for 368 yards and two touchdowns. However, Gilbert opted out of the remainder of the 2020 LSU Tigers football season in December, citing bodily injury. [7]
Gilbert entered the transfer portal on January 2, 2021 and initially committed to the University of Florida on January 31. [8] He re-entered the portal less than a month later on February 28, [9] and would later transfer to the University of Georgia before the summer semester of 2021. However, Gilbert would not play during the entire 2021 season due to personal reasons. [10] Gilbert's only catches as a Georgia Bulldog came against Vanderbilt in the 2022 season, where he had two catches for sixteen yards and a touchdown. [11]
Gilbert elected to transfer again following the conclusion of the 2022 Georgia Bulldogs football season, this time to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for the 2023 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team. [12]
On August 29, 2023, while awaiting eligibility to play at Nebraska, Gilbert was arrested for burglary of a liquor and vape store in Lincoln. He was arrested a second time for a smash-and-grab burglary of 150 vapes in Lumpkin County, Georgia on September 16, 2023. [13]
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