Usage / Role
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Featured defensive role
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Player Dossier
2022-2025Illinois
Gabe Jacas
LB • 6'3" • 275 lbs • Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA
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Gabe Jacas shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 38.6 disruption score.
Impact Production
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Top-tier box-score impact for a linebacker
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Reliability
100
Regular contributor with several takeover games
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Star Power
93
Blue-chip, NFL-level ceiling
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Career Arc
Value trend by season
Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Illinois
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Snapshot
- Career Teams
- 1
- Unique Seasons
- 4
- Program Path
- Illinois
- Peak Game
- Peak game by takeover score: Michigan
Player Story
Gabe Jacas built his college career from 2022 through 2025 as a linebacker from Port Saint Lucie, FL wearing No. 17, spending time with Illinois. The clearest part of Gabe Jacas' career was his defensive production:...
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- Committed To
- Illinois
- Commit Date
- Jan 1, 2022
NFL Draft
- Draft Year
- 2026
- Selection
- Round 2 · Pick 23
- Overall
- No. 55
- NFL Team
- New England Patriots
Gabe Jacas, LB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Postseason · Illinois. Gabe Jacas shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 38.6 disruption score.
Quick Answers
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- Latest team and position
- Illinois · LB
- Career Tackles
- 178
- Tracked sample
- 4 unique seasons · 5 entries · 46 games
- Best season
- 2024 Postseason · Illinois
- Top game
- Michigan
- Recruit profile
- 3-star · Fort Pierce Central · Illinois
- High school pipeline
- Fort Pierce Central · 12 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
- NFL Draft
- 2026 · Round 2 · Pick 23 · New England Patriots
- Latest roster
- No. 17 · Senior
- 2025 Tackles rank
- 44 tackles · LB 329th (top 26%) · Big Ten 95th (top 13%) · National 775th (top 13%)
Gabe Jacas played LB for Illinois. Across 4 tracked seasons, Gabe Jacas recorded 178 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Illinois.
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