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Eastern Kentucky University Athletics

2025 Football Roster

10 Derek Taylor

  • Position Defensive Back
  • Ht./Wt. 6-3 / 206
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Greenbrier, Tenn.
  • High School Greenbrier
  • Previous School Cumberland (Tenn.)

Biography

IN 2024 AT CUMBERLAND (TENN.)
First Team All-Conference Mid-South (NAIA) selection ... Posted 38 total tackles, three for loss with one sack ... Broke up six passes

IN 2023 AT CUMBERLAND (TENN.)
Played in 10 games ... Second Team All-Conference Mid-South (NAIA) ... Recorded four interceptions and five pass breakups ... Added 44 total tackles.

IN 2022 AT TENNESSEE
Did not play.

HIGH SCHOOL
Three-star prospect by 247 Sports coming out of high school ... Had offers from APSU, EKU, Marshall, and Michigan State ... Totaled 700 receiving yards and four touchdowns as a wide receiver while posting 20 total tackles and a fumble recovery on defense.

PERSONAL
Son of Lora and Gerald Taylor … Has five sisters, Lindsay, Sarah, Savannah, Carmen, and Jordan, and five brothers, Bentley, Madden, Trey, Taylor, and Jackson ... His father, Gerald, played football at the University of Tennessee at Martin ... Favorite food is chicken parmesan ... Favorite sport other than football is basketball ... Favorite movie is Grown Ups.

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