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Tennessee State University

2023 Football Roster

3 Monroe Beard III

  • Position LB
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 220
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Chattanooga, Tenn.
  • High School Notre Dame HS
  • Prev School Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Biography

Awards and Honors:
2023 All Big South-OVC First Team Defense
Big South-OVC Defensive Player of the Week (10/2/23)

2023: Played and started in nine games at linebacker during his first season at TSU…led the team in tackles with 95 (53 solo, 42 assists), while finishing first in the OVC…notched 4.0 TFLs, four pass breakups, four QB hurries, and one interception… set a single-game TSU record for tackles in a game with 19 against UT Martin (9/30) and won OVC Defensive Player of the Week honors for his performance…had five games in a row with 11+ tackles…finished with 11 tackles against his former school in the Southern Heritage Classic (9/9)…collected 12 tackles the following week against Gardner-Webb (9/16)…finished with 14 stops and 0.5 sacks on the road at Kennesaw (10/7)….tallied 11 tackles in the homecoming game against Norfolk (10/14)…finished with one interception and six tackles at Charleston Southern before missing the final two games of season due to injury.

2019 (UAPB): Recorded 37 tackles, 2.0 sacks, 4.5 tackles for loss, team-high three fumble recoveries and two pass breakups....recorded at least one tackle in every game and at least 0.5 TFL seven times....made career-high seven tackles (career-high three solo) with one fumble recovery at Alabama A&M (9/7)...tallied six tackles (two solo) with 0.5 TFL vs. Lane (10/5)....collected five tackles games vs. Miss. Valley (with 0.5 sacks and 0.5 TFL on 10/12) and Texas Southern (with 0.5 TFL on 11/23)

High School: Named to All-State team as senior...selected to play in Tennessee East-West All-Star Classic

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