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2025 NIU Football Roster

86 Devon Akers

  • Height 6-7
  • Weight 223
  • Class Redshirt Freshman
  • Position Tight End
  • Hometown Ankeny, Iowa
  • High School Ankeny

Biography

2024

  • Did not see any action as a true freshman.


HIGH SCHOOL 

Honors and Awards 

  • Three-year varsity letterwinner (2021, 2022, 2023) 

  • Team captain (2023) 

  • Named First Team All-Conference, All-County & All-Region (2023) 

  • Invited to Blue-Grey All-American Bowl, Hula Bowl and Shrine Bowl. 

Team Results/Record 

  • 2023: 9-4, State Runner-up 

  • 2022: 9-2, State Quarterfinalist 

  • 2021: 10-3, State Runner-up 

Academic and Club/Sport Involvement 

  • Two-year varsity letterwinner in basketball  

  • Three-year varsity letterwinner in track and field.  

  • Track and Field Conference Championship (2024)  

  • Member of conference championship Distance Medley team (2024) 


PERSONAL 

  • Majoring in business with an ambition to work in sports. 

Statistics

Season:
2025

Season Statistics

Season Statistics

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Career Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 86

    2024Freshman

    Tight End
    6'7" 215 lbs
    86
  • 86

    2025Redshirt Freshman

    Tight End
    6'7" 223 lbs
    86