{"id":82439,"date":"2021-08-19T08:37:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herosportsprod.wpengine.com\/?p=82439"},"modified":"2022-04-19T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T18:26:45","slug":"fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-willie-eubanks-bzbz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-willie-eubanks-bzbz\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 FCS Jersey Countdown: 9 \u2014 The Best Player Who Wears No. 9 Is The Citadel&#8217;s Willie Eubanks III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to the 2021&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/college-football\/fcs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FCS<\/a>&nbsp;Jersey Countdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading up to Week 0 games on Aug. 28, HERO Sports is going to name the best returning FCS player by jersey number, 99-0. Due to rosters being updated at different times for teams across the country and to keep things consistent, jersey numbers are based on the&nbsp;2020 fall-2021 spring season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-bzbz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The 99-0 countdown central page can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: Jersey numbers are based on&nbsp;2020 fall-2021 spring&nbsp;rosters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9: Willie Eubanks III, LB (Sr.) \u2014 The Citadel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Eubanks plays with tremendous range and energy on the football field. The 6-foot-2, 230-pounder has next-level potential with his skillset &#8212; a sound tackler in space with great closing speed that is also effective in pass coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been highly productive dating back to 2018 when he totaled 80 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, two interceptions, and two fumble recoveries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, Eubanks racked up 112 tackles, 11.5 TFLs, four sacks, 11 quarterback hurries, three forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, one interception, and four pass breakups. He was named the Southern Conference Defensive Player of the Year by the coaches and the media, and he was named to four different All-American teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big Play Willie!<br><br>Eubanks with the big stop to get the ball back for the offense.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FireThoseCannons?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FireThoseCannons<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IABexaGRWN\">pic.twitter.com\/IABexaGRWN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Citadel Football (@CitadelFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitadelFootball\/status\/1309920085155422213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 26, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eubanks added another 70 tackles, six TFLs, and two sacks in eight games during the 2020-21 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-preseason-all-american-bzbz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERO Sports Preseason First-Team All-American<\/a>, Eubanks looks to have a huge senior season to get himself even further onto the NFL radar. 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Leading up to Week 0 games on Aug. 28, HERO Sports is going to name the best returning FCS player by jersey number, 99-0. Due to rosters being updated at different times for teams across the country and to keep things consistent, jersey numbers are based on the&nbsp;2020 fall-2021 spring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,3816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fcs","category-socon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.5 (Yoast SEO v23.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2021 FCS Jersey Countdown: 9 \u2014 The Best Player Who Wears No. 9 Is The Citadel&#039;s Willie Eubanks III - HERO Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 2019, Eubanks racked up 112 tackles, 11.5 TFLs, four sacks, 11 quarterback hurries, three forced fumbles, and four pass breakups.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-willie-eubanks-bzbz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2021 FCS Jersey Countdown: 9 \u2014 The Best Player Who Wears No. 9 Is The Citadel&#039;s Willie Eubanks III\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 2019, Eubanks racked up 112 tackles, 11.5 TFLs, four sacks, 11 quarterback hurries, three forced fumbles, and four pass breakups.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-willie-eubanks-bzbz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"HERO Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HEROSportsNews\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-19T15:37:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-04-19T18:26:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/e8tpmrtk53q.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/The-Citadels-Willie-Eubanks-III-9.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1291\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"690\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sam Herder\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/e8tpmrtk53q.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/The-Citadels-Willie-Eubanks-III-9.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamHerderFCS\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@herosportsnews\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sam Herder\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-willie-eubanks-bzbz\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-willie-eubanks-bzbz\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sam Herder\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/#\/schema\/person\/037ef5092a5433744b0f41dced80170c\"},\"headline\":\"2021 FCS Jersey Countdown: 9 \u2014 The Best Player Who Wears No. 9 Is The Citadel&#8217;s Willie Eubanks III\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-19T15:37:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-04-19T18:26:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-willie-eubanks-bzbz\/\"},\"wordCount\":312,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-willie-eubanks-bzbz\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/e8tpmrtk53q.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/The-Citadels-Willie-Eubanks-III-9.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1\",\"articleSection\":[\"FCS\",\"SoCon\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-willie-eubanks-bzbz\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/herosports.com\/fcs-football-2021-jersey-countdown-willie-eubanks-bzbz\/\",\"name\":\"2021 FCS Jersey Countdown: 9 \u2014 The Best Player Who Wears No. 9 Is The Citadel's Willie Eubanks III - 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