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Devin Phillips

Position Defensive Line
Height 6'2"
Weight 315 lbs.
Class RS-Senior
Hometown Monroe, La.
High School Neville HS
Previous School Colorado State

Career Honors: 2023: Preseason All-Big 12 Fourth Team (Phil Steele)

2023 (RS-Sr.): Illinois:  Produced one solo tackle … BYU: Totaled one solo tackle, his second of the season … at Texas: Earned a career-high three total tackles, all solo… at Oklahoma State: Tallied one solo tackle in the contest… Oklahoma: Totaled two tackles in the contest, one of which being solo… Kansas State: Recorded a solo tackle in the contest…

2021 (Sr. at Colorado State): Has started every game he’s appeared in during his college career (36) … Finished the season with 33 tackles, including 4.0 TFLs and 2.5 sacks … Recorded a quarterback hurry and recovered one fumble on the season … Had a season-best five tackles in a game three times (Vandy, at Wyoming, Air Force) … Had sacks in back-to-back weeks at Toledo and at Iowa … Had a season-best three solo stops at Wyoming

2020 (Jr. at Colorado State: Appeared in two games, starting both … Has started every game he’s played in during his college career … Finished the season with six tackles, two solo and one tackle for loss … Lone TFL was a sack … Added one pass defended

2019 (So. at Colorado State): First career sacks came vs. San Diego State, a game where he had a season-best five tackles … Had two quarterback hurries vs. Western Illinois … Tied for ninth on the team with 29 tackles … Posted 7.5 tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks … Finished with three quarterback hurries

2018 (Fr. at Colorado State): Started the first 10 games of the season before an injury kept him out of the final two … finished the season with 26 tackles (6 solo), including 3.0 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks, and added one pass breakup, three QB hurries and one forced fumble … together with CB Rashad Ajayi, became first true freshman duo at CSU to start at least nine games since 2010 … Made collegiate debut in season opener vs. Hawai’i (Aug. 25) and made three tackles, including first career TFL

High School: Rated a four-star recruit by ESPN, and was ranked No. 245 nationally by ESPN … Was ESPN’s sixth-ranked player out of Louisiana and the 12th-ranked offensive guard in the nation … Earned several all-state honors as a senior … Led Neville High School to Class 2-4A state titles in 2014 and 2015.

Personal: Son of John Phillips and Jacqueline Fobbs … Father played football at ULM … Brother, Joctavis, was an offensive lineman at CSU … Has two other brothers, Cornelius and LaJarvis, and one sister, Khalia.

Football 🏈 KU Has 12 Recognized on Phil Steele’s All-Big 12 Preseason Teams

Kansas had 12 players selected to the Phil Steele’s 2023 Preseason All-Big 12 Football teams, highlighted by three first team and three second team selections.