Youngstown State’s Deshon Taylor: a versatile DB with fresh-season momentum
Deshon Taylor appears to be in the Youngstown State defensive back mix for the 2026 season, and his value projects more from role-fit than box-score flash. The big differentiator is versatility at safety/DB—coaches can lean on him for coverage range, physical run support, and special-teams toughness, the kind of gritty profile that tends to stick on good FCS defenses. With the Penguins opening 2026 by beating Mercyhurst 43-10, the secondary is in a good place to grow into the season, but Taylor’s exact stat line wasn’t clearly surfaced in the available team data.
