Deep Red Raider Piece with Freshman Upside
Bode Higgins is a 6-foot, 205-pound redshirt freshman linebacker from Spirit Lake, Iowa, for Northwestern (IA), and his appeal is the classic one for a fit-seeking defense: young, local, and still packing plenty of developmental runway[1][2]. He was listed on the 2025 signing class as a defensive prospect and remains in the linebacker room in 2026, but public stat pages show no career statistics yet, so the story here is projection, not production[3][4]. If a team wants a hard-nosed, growth-stage LB who can be molded in a system, Higgins is worth a closer look.
