USC Football: ASU Transfer Linebacker Could Hold Key To Slowing Trojans

This Sun Devil is having a devilishly good season so far.

Your 3-0 USC Trojans are gearing up for probably their tallest task of the young 2023 season this weekend, when they will be squaring off against the Arizona State University Sun Devils.

One ASU player for which the club should game-plan is linebacker Tate Romney, a transfer out of BYU, writes Donovan James of Trojans Wire/USA Today. Romney's case is unique. He was a three-star recruit out of Chandler High School in Arizona, but was recruited by BYU in 2020. A committed Mormon, he went on a two-year Latter Day Saints Mission before logging just a single year with BYU, where his older brothers Gunner Romney, a wide receiver, and Baylor Romney, a quarterback, both played.

The 6'2", 220-pound redshirt freshman has logged 15 tackles (six solo, nine assisted) across his three starts for the clubs against Southern Utah, Oklahoma State and Fresno State.

James opines that Romney will be one of the key chances his team has at slowing down reigning Heisman Trophy winner (and possible No. 1 pick in next year's NFL draft) Caleb Williams, leader of perhaps the greatest scoring punch in the nation.

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