Auburn Tigers Snapshot Profile: No. 46 Jake Levant

Jake Levant has become a key contributor for Auburn on special teams.

Going into the 2023 football season, Auburn Wire will be looking at each scholarship player listed on the Tigers’ roster.

Over the preseason, each profile will cover where the player is from, how recruiting websites rated them coming out of high school, and what role they will play for [autotag]Hugh Freeze[/autotag] in his first season on the Plains.

Up next is linebacker [autotag]Jake Levant[/autotag]. The former walk-on earned a scholarship ahead of last season and has been a key special-teamer in his time at Auburn.

Preseason Player Profile

Hometown: Vestavia Hills, Alabama

Height: 6-1

Weight: 232

Class in 2023: Senior

247Sports Composite Ranking

Three-Star / No. 80 in Alabama / No. 137 LB

Career Stats

Year G Tackles TFLs Sacks PDs FFs
2020 0
2021 8 1 0 0 0 0
2022 12 4 0 0 0 0

PFF Grades

Year Defense Tackling Run Defense Coverage Special Teams
2021 53.3
2022 65.4 80.0 73.2 60.5 54.8

Depth Chart Overview

Levant was put on scholarship ahead of last season and appeared in all 12 games for the Tigers with most of his time coming on special teams. Auburn’s additions through the transfer portal at linebacker have likely cut out his role there but he provides quality depth and should once again see plenty of action on special teams.

Jake Levant’s Photo Gallery

Watch: Jake Levant awarded scholorship

What a day for Jake Levant who also picked off Zach Calzada.

[autotag]Jake Levant[/autotag] had quite the Saturday.

[autotag]Bryan Harsin[/autotag] called the team together to correct Levant for throwing his hands up during a special teams drill like he was guilty. Harsin then dropped the bomb that he was “guilty of getting a full scholarship.”

Auburn’s newest scholarship player was soon mobbed by his teammates to celebrate the achievement.

“It was honestly surreal,” Levant said afterwards. “It took me a second to realize it was happening because he’s like calling me out for putting my hands up and then all of a sudden people are jumping on me and I’m like, ‘What just happened?’ And I just realized he said, ‘scholarship.’ So it was really just surreal.”

Levant is entering his sophomore season after deciding to walk on at Auburn despite having scholarship offers from Troy and UAB. He proved his worth last season, playing in eight games as a special teams player.

While the 6-foot-1, 224-pound Levant may have a tough time cracking the linebacker rotation, he should once again be a key contributor on special teams.

His big day was not over though, he capped the practice off by picking off quarterback Zach Calzada in a 7-on-7 drill.

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