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Jersey Number 31
David Bailey
- Position:
- Outside Linebacker
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 250
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Irvine, Calif.
- High School:
- Mater Dei
Bio
CAREER HONORS
2025 SEASON (SENIOR)
PRIOR TO TEXAS TECH
HIGH SCHOOL
PERSONAL
- All-Big 12 Preseason Team (2025, Sr.)
- ACC Linebacker of the Week (Sept. 23, 2024, Jr.)
- 2024 All-ACC Academic Team selection (2024, Jr.)
- Pac-12 Defensive Lineman of the Week (Sept. 5, 2023, So.)
- True Freshman All-America selection by 247Sports (2022, Fr.)
2025 SEASON (SENIOR)
- Joined the Red Raiders in early April, midway through spring practices … participated in the team's final seven spring practices, including the annual Texas Tech Spring Game.
- Tabbed by Pro Football Focus in the spring as the No. 40 prospect for the 2026 NFL Draft … named to the preseason watch for the Lott IMPACT Trophy.
PRIOR TO TEXAS TECH
- Arrived at Texas Tech as one of the nation’s top prospects out of the transfer portal … will play his final season of eligibility with the Red Raiders following three seasons at Stanford … appeared in 33 games over his college career with 16 starts.
- Among the most disruptive edge players in college football with 22.5 tackles for loss and 14.5 sacks during his three seasons at Stanford … finished with 111 tackles (73 solo) over those three seasons to go along with seven forced fumbles and a pass breakup … will enter his final collegiate season tied for second among active FBS players with seven career forced fumbles … tied with the likes of Mikail Kamara of Indiana and Harold Perkins Jr. of LSU, trailing only Red Murdock of Buffalo, who has 11 career forced fumbles.
- Ranked as the highest-rated returning edge player in college football upon signing with the Red Raiders by Pro Football Focus … credited with playing in 1,142 defensive snaps over his three seasons with the Cardinals where he created 91 total pressures (15 sacks, 11 quarterback hits and 65 hurries) … received a 90.9 overall defensive grade by the publication as a junior, which was sixth nationally among edge players and leads all returners for the 2025 season … graded slightly behind Penn State’s Abdul Carter, who was the No. 3 overall pick in the 2025 NFL Draft by the New York Giants.Â
- 2024 SEASON (JUNIOR at STANFORD): recorded 31 tackles (22 solo) over his 12 games played as a junior, including two starts … led the Cardinal in tackles for loss (8.0), quarterback hurries (8), sacks (7.0) and forced fumbles (5).
- Ranked fourth in the FBS for forced fumbles as it marked the most by a Stanford player in a season since Chase Thomas had six in 2011 … his 7.0 sacks, meanwhile, were the most by a Cardinal in a single season since Casey Toohill had 8.0 in 2019.
- Credited with 39 total pressures over his 364 defensive snaps by Pro Football Focus … received a 93.2 grade as a pass rusher by the publication, which led all FBS players.
- Recorded multiple stops in eight of the nine games he had a tackle … put together two multi-sack games on the season, finding the quarterback twice at Syracuse (9/20) and at N.C. State (11/2) … became the first Cardinal with a pair of two-sack games in the same season since James Vaughters in 2014 … recognized as the ACC Linebacker of the Week following Stanford’s win over Syracuse … forced two fumbles against N.C. State as part of a five-tackle performance in the losing effort … tied his season high with six tackles the next week versus Louisville (11/16) ... previously set his season high a few weeks earlier with six stops against SMU (10/19).Â
- Recognized for his work in the classroom as part of the All-ACC Academic Team.
- 2023 SEASON (SOPHOMORE at STANFORD): played in 10 games with five starts as a sophomore … led the team in tackles for loss and sacks as a sophomore, building off his successful freshman campaign … finished with 34 total tackles, including 6.0 for a loss and 5.0 sacks.
- Posted multiple tackles in all but one game on the season, which came late at Oregon State (11/1) … started the season with six tackles at Hawaii (9/1), which featured career highs with 4.0 tackles for loss and 3.0 sacks … added solo sacks later in the year during Pac-12 play against Arizona (9/23) and UCLA (10/21) … sack versus Arizona was part of five tackles, his most during Pac-12 that season.
- Added five stops late in the season versus Cal (11/18) before finishing with four a week later in a non-conference rivalry matchup with Notre Dame (11/25) … had three tackles in three games during the league slate against Southern California (9/9), Oregon (9/30 and UCLA.
- Listed with 364 defensive snaps by Pro Football Focus on the season … highly-regarded again as a pass rusher with a 77.7 grade after creating 24 pressures (5 sacks, 2 quarterback hits and 17 hurries).
- Tabbed to the preseason Chuck Bednarik Award watch list … also tabbed to the preseason All-Pac 12 second team by Phil Steele and as a preseason honorable mention selection by the media who covered the league.
- 2022 SEASON (FRESHMAN at STANFORD): emerged as one of the top true freshmen in college football, making nine starts in his 11 games played for the Cardinal … tabbed a True Freshman All-American by 247Sports following the season … earned Stanford’s Outstanding Freshman award.
- Totaled 46 tackles on the season, including 8.5 for a loss and 2.5 sacks … was frequently in the backfield with 13 quarterback hurries and two forced fumbles … made multiple stops in eight different games and had four or more in five of those contests.
- Made a splash in only his second collegiate game, totaling nine tackles, including 1.5 for loss – all sacks – versus Southern California (9/10) … was one of three games with multiple tackles for loss on the season after recording 2.0 tackles for loss against both Oregon State (10/8) and at UCLA (10/29) … performance versus the Bruins was part of a career-high 10 tackles and a forced fumble, his lone outing in double digits during his Stanford career … one of his two tackles for loss went for a sack versus the Bruins.
- Majority of his season total came during Pac-12 play with six stops at Oregon (10/1), four versus Oregon State and nine against Washington State … went four-consecutive games with a tackle for loss during that stretch, which began at Oregon and ran through the Washington State trip.
- Credited with 430 defensive snaps at the end of the season by Pro Football Focus, which listed him with 28 total pressures (3 sacks, 3 hits, 22 hurries) … received an impressive 70.5 overall defensive grade as only a true freshman, which included a 70.5 grade in rush defense and a 73.9 grade as a pass rusher.
HIGH SCHOOL
- Attended Mater Dei High School, one of the top prep programs in the state of California … led Mater Dei to a 12-0 season and a victory in the California State Championship Open Division his senior season … program went wire-to-wire as the No. 1 high school team in the country by MaxPreps.
- Named the statewide Defensive Player of the Year as a senior by the website CalHiSports.com after totaling team highs with 20.5 tackles for loss and 15.5 sacks over 12 games … recorded an impressive 20.5 sacks over his prep career … was second on the team with 54 total tackles, including 42 of those that were solo.
- Tabbed the Trinity League Defensive Player of the Year as well as a first-team All-Trinity League selection … recognized as the Orange County Register’s Orange County Defensive Player of the Year following his 2021 senior season … later played in the prestigious All-American Bowl as one of the nation’s top players.
- Three-year letterwinner at Mater Dei … honors student throughout high school tenure and member of the Principal’s Honor Roll.
- A consensus four-star recruit by the likes of 247Sports, On3, Rivals and ESPN … was the first player left off the five-star list by 247Sports … among the top prospects in the country, ranking as high as No. 33 nationally by 247Sports … was No. 50 overall among recruits in the 2021 class by On3 and then No. 79 by Rivals and No. 121 by ESPN … was the No. 3 edge player in the country by 247Sports and No. 8 by On3 … listed as an outside linebacker by both Rivals and ESPN, ranking as high as No. 6 and No. 11 in that position group.
- Ranked as the second-best prospect out of California by 247Sports and a consensus top-10 state prospect by all four publications … was third in the state by On3, No. 6 by Rivals and No. 7 by ESPN.
PERSONAL
- David Bailey … son of Anthony and Monica Bailey … originally born in Orange, Calif. … has three siblings, DJ, Antoinette and Shawn … older brother, DJ, previously was a three-year letterman as a defensive end for Harvard from 2015-17.
- Earned a bachelor’s degree in science, technology and science from Stanford in less than four years … enrolled in graduate school at Texas Tech.
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