California Golden Bears Athletics
2025 Football Roster
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Sep 25 (Fri)
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Jersey Number 3
TJ Bush Jr.
- Position:
- Outside Linebacker
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 265
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Woodbridge, VA
- Prev School:
- Liberty
- High School:
- Freedom HS
Junior (2025) - Cal
- Started all 13 games for the Bears.
- Finished with 40 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss, 5.5 sacks, four QB hurries and a pass breakup.
- Led the team with 5.5 sacks (-37 yards), while ranking second with 9.0 tackles for loss (-44 yards), with the yards lost for both also team highs.
Sophomore (2024) - Liberty
- Lombardi Award Midseason Watch List (nation’s top lineman or linebacker).
- Made a career high 58 tackles along with 9.5 TFL, 5.5 sacks and defended four passes.
Freshman (2023) - Liberty
- FWAA Freshman All-American.
- Conference USA All-Freshman Team.
- Started all 14 games at defensive end as a true freshman.
- Finished the season with 32 tackles (11 solo, 21 assisted).
- Ranked third on the team with 7.0 tackles for a loss (22 yards).
- Also recorded two sacks for a loss of 11 yards).
- Ranked fourth on the team with five pass breakups.
- Also added three quarterback hurries.
- Helped Liberty finish the season ranked No. 9 in the country in turnovers gained (25), No. 21 in turnover margin (0.50) and No. 24 in rushing defense (116.7 yards allowed per game).
- Two tackles, including a tackle for a loss and a quarterback hurry, against Bowling Green in his first collegiate game.
- Two solo tackles, including a seven-yard sack, at Buffalo.
- Three assisted tackles and two quarterback hurries at Western Kentucky.
- Recorded a season-high six stops against Louisiana Tech, including three solo tackles and 1.5 tackles for a loss.
- Five stops against Old Dominion, including 1.5 tackles for a loss.
- Two tackles and a quarterback hurry during the CUSA Football Championship game against New Mexico State.
- Two tackles, including a pass breakup, against No. 8 Oregon in the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl.
Prep
- Graduated from Freedom High School in Woodbridge, Va.
- Three-star recruit as ranked by 247Sports.com.
- Three-star recruit as ranked by Rivals.com.
- Helped Freedom High School to the state championship title during his senior season.
- Named District and Regional Player of the Year.
- Finished his senior year with 85 tackles, 33.0 tackles for a loss and 29.5 sacks.
- 2022 Class 6A Virginia State Defensive Player of the Year.
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