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Luc Bequette

Class:
Graduate Student
Position:
Defensive Line
Height:
6-2
Weight:
290
Hometown:
Little Rock, Ark.
High School:
Catholic
Prev School:
Cal

2020 (GRADUATE): Started all 11 games at defensive tackles in his one season at BC ... totaled 18 tackles, including seven solos and three TFLs and one sack ... made three tackles with one TFL against Texas State (9/26) ... picked up two tackles and broke up a pass vs. Pittsburgh (10/10) ... registered four tackles and forced a fumble against Georgia Tech (10/24) ... forced a fumble and made one stop, a TFL, at Syracuse (11/7) ... posted two tackles vs. Notre Dame (11/14) ... season-high six tackles with a nine-yard sack at Virginia (12/5).

BEFORE BC: Spent five years at the University of California before transferring to Boston College in September 2020 … granted a sixth-year of eligibility for the 2020 campaign following the 2019 season, getting a year of eligibility back for a 2016 redshirt freshman season in which he played in only four games before being injured … played in 42 games over the last four campaigns after redshirting as a true freshman in 2015 and started all 38 contests over the past three seasons … contributed 130 tackles, 12.5 tackles for loss (-57 yards), 10.0 sacks (-53 yards), three pass breakups, three passes defended, four forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, four quarterback hurries and one blocked kick during his career at Cal … named second-team preseason All-Pac-12 by Athlon Sports and Jon Wilner of the Bay Area News Group … earned Cal's Brick Muller Award as its Most Valuable Lineman as a junior … one of seven players and five on the defensive side of the ball to start all 13 games … registered a career-high 52 tackles, while adding 4.0 tackles for loss (-16 yards), 3.0 sacks (-14 yards), career highs of two pass breakups and two passes defended, one quarterback hurry and a career-high-tying two forced fumbles in 2019 … career-high-tying and season-high nine tackles as well as a career-high-tying one forced fumble at Oregon … earned Cal's Brick Muller Award as its Most Valuable Lineman on defense in 2018 … third-team All-Pac-12 selection of Phil Steele while he was an honorable mention All-Pac-12 choice of the league's coaches … contributed 49 tackles, career highs of 6.5 tackles for loss (-31 yards) and a team-high-tying 5.0 sacks (-29 yards), one pass breakup, one pass defended, two quarterback hurries and a career-high-tying two forced fumbles, as well as his first career blocked kick on an Idaho State extra-point attempt … ranked eighth in the Pac-12 in both total sacks and sacks per game (0.38) … one of three defensive players and seven overall to start all 12 games as a freshman in 2017 … two-way starter on the offensive and defensive line for two seasons of prep football at Catholic High School … an All-State and first-team All-Big Twelve selection on offense as well as a second-team all-league pick on defense as a 2013 junior at Centennial High School in Champaign before transferring to Catholic High School in Little Rock as a 2014 senior and earning first-team All-7A/6A honors on defense according to ArkansasVarsity.com … also a prep wrestler … considered a three-star recruit according to 247Sports and ESPN.

PERSONAL: Son of Chris Bequette and Debi Thomas … father is a former offensive lineman at Arkansas and currently a financial advisor who works with college and pro football coaches … comes from a football family with his grandfather George Bequette, uncle Jay Bequette, and cousin Jake Bequette, also playing for the Razorbacks, with Jake a member of the New England Patriots from 2012-15 … mother won a bronze medal in figure skating at the 1988 Olympic Games, is a two-time national champion and a 1986 world champion.