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Sep 5 (Sat)
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Jersey Number 23
Isaiah Crosby
- Position:
- Defensive Back
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Fort Worth, TX
- Prev School:
- Trinity Valley Community College
- High School:
- Manor HS
Accolades - Athletic
- College Football Comeback Player of the Year Watch List (2026)
- Pro Football Focus ACC Defensive Team Of The Week (2025: 9/6, 9/20)
- JUCO All-American (2023)
- Started all four games before missing the rest of the season due to injury.
- In four games, made 17 tackles, defended three passes and added a TFL.
- Played in five games and tallied three tackles. Returned three punts for 34 yards.
- Made Cal debut in home opener against UC Davis.
- Recorded first stats as a Bear at Auburn with one solo tackle.
- Ranks as high as the nation’s No. 3 junior college safety in the 2024 recruiting class according to On3 Consensus and 247Sports, while 247Sports lists him as the No. 36 junior college player overall.
- Earned Junior College All-American honors as a 2023 sophomore when he had career highs of 41 tackles, five interceptions that he returned for 78 yards and five pass breakups, as well as a combined 273 yards of punt (178) and kick (95) return yards for a 7-3 squad.
- Played in 20 games as a 2022 freshman and 2023 sophomore at Trinity Valley Community College for a pair of teams that combined for a 15-8 record with each reaching the opening round of the playoffs
- Contributed career two-year junior college totals of 64 tackles, 1.0 tackle for loss (-7 yards), six interceptions that he returned 78 yards and seven pass breakups, while also bringing back 33 punts for 447 yards and six kickoffs for 199 yards for teams that combined for a 15-6 record.
- Played both ways as a 2021 prep senior and had 34 tackles, three interceptions that he brought back 146 yards on defense, while adding four scores on offense with two each rushing and receiving, as well as 230 combined kick and punt return yards for a team that finished 9-3 overall and reached the second round of the 5A Division 1 state playoffs
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