Gene Hopkins brings power and disruption to UTEP’s defensive front
Gene Hopkins is a big-bodied UTEP defensive lineman with a background that points to real trench toughness: he arrived after a productive high school career and, in his earlier college years, flashed as a disruptive run-stopper with tackles for loss and a sack. His value is the kind coaches love—physicality, effort, and the ability to hold the point and collapse plays before they start. If you need a lineman who can bring edge, durability, and blue-collar nastiness, Hopkins fits the mold.
