#9 Caleb Peart
LB
As a Redshirt Senior (2019)
• Selected as to CoSIDA Academic All-District squad
• SEC H. Boyd McWhorter Award (Vanderbilt Athletics’ male nominee)
• Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar
• 12 games played
• Played both inside and outside linebacker
• Starts at Purdue, Northern Illinois and East Tennessee State
• Single-season highs with 29 tackles (15 solo) and 3.0 tackles for loss
• Three solo stops and career-high two tackles for loss in win over East Tennessee State
• Matched career best with four unassisted stops at South Carolina
• Five tackles in win over Northern Illinois
• Registered six tackles (4 solo) at Purdue
• Added tackle for loss against LSU
As a Redshirt Junior (2018)
• Third team Arthur Ashe Jr. Scholar recipient
• 13 games played
• Three games started
• 14 tackles (six solo), 1.5 tackles for loss, one quarterback sack and one pass defended
• Season-high four stops and one sack in win over Tennessee State
As a Redshirt Sophomore (2017)
• 12 games played
• Two games started
• 11 tackles, one tackle for loss
• Four tackles at Florida
As a Redshirt Freshman (2016)
• 11 games played
• Five tackles (three solo)
• College debut vs. Middle Tennessee
As a Redshirt Freshman (2015)
• Did not play
The Peart File
• Prepped at Hamilton (Ariz.)
• Consensus three-star prospect
• Senior captain
• Three-year starter
• 82 tackles, 15 sacks and two forced fumbles as senior
• Led team to 12-2 record and Division AIA state title game
• 2014 National Football Foundation Curley Culp Award
• Arizona’s top prep defensive lineman
• 2014 team defensive MVP
• 2014 all-state
• 2014 all-region
• 2014 Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl
• 2013 all-state
• 2013 all-region
• Born in Phoenix
• Full name is Caleb Jamal Peart
• Son of Carl and Jacqueline Peart
• Younger sister, Keturah
• Talented singer
• Completed work on double major – African American and diaspora studies, and medicine, health and society – in December 2019
• Working toward a postgraduate degree in medicine, health and society
Career Highs:
Total Tackles: 6, at Purdue, 9/7/2019
Solo Tackles: 4, 2x, most recently at South Carolina, 11/3/2019
Quarterback Sacks: 1.0, 2x, most recently vs. LSU, 9/16/2019
Tackles for Loss: 2.0, vs. East Tennessee State, 11/23/2019