High-upside Tarleton LB with a decorated high school tackle machine’s pedigree
Dickens enters Tarleton State as a fresh-faced linebacker with a proven high-motor resume, built on 486 career tackles, 109 tackles for loss, and 37 sacks at Paradise High School, plus captaincy and multiple all-state honors. Tarleton lists him at 6-foot-0, 195 pounds and currently has him as an active freshman/redshirt freshman, but available college stats are still limited, so the value case is mostly projection: instinctive, disruptive, and battle-tested, with the intensity and production to fit a defense that wants downhill aggression and playmaking from the second level.
