2024 USC Football Roster
Roster
Jacobe Covington
- Position:
- Cornerback
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 200
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Chandler, Ariz.
- High School:
- Saguaro HS / Washington
CAREER: In his 5-year career (2 years at Washington and 3 years at USC), he has 61 tackles, including 2 for loss (with a sack), 8 PBUs, 1 INT, and 1 forced fumble while appearing in 42 games with 14 starts.
2024: Covington recorded 30 tackles, including 1 for loss of 3 yards, 1 forced fumble, and 3 PBUs (tied third on team), while starting in 9 games (missing Penn State, Maryland, Rutgers, and Washington) as a redshirt senior in 2024.
He gathered 5 tackles versus LSU and 3 tackles versus Utah State, with 0.5 for loss of 2 yards. He had 6 tackles, including 0.5 for loss of 1 yard at Michigan and 1 tackle against Wisconsin, with 2 PBUs. He collected 3 tackles versus Minnesota and 2 tackles versus Nebraska. He tallied 5 tackles, with 1 PBU, against UCLA and 3 tackles, with 1 forced fumble, versus Notre Dame. He accounted for 2 tackles against Texas A&M in the Distribution Las Vegas Bowl.
2023: Covington saw action in 6 games while making 2 starts as a redshirt junior in 2023. He had 12 tackles, including 1 for loss of 2 yards, 1 INT and 1 PBU. He collected 2 tackles against San Jose State and 1 tackle versus Nevada. He recorded 1 tackle, including 0.5 for loss of 2 yards against Arizona State. He tallied 1 tackle against Colorado and 3 tackles, including 0.5 for loss, and 1 INT against Arizona. He recorded 4 tackles and 1 PBU in the Holiday Bowl versus Louisville.
2022: Covington tallied 14 tackles and 4 pass breakups as a redshirt sophomore cornerback in 2022 while appearing in all 14 games with 3 starts.
He recorded 2 tackles against Rice and 3 tackles versus Fresno State. He tallied 1 tackle and 1 PBU against Arizona State and 1 tackle versus Utah. He collected 1 tackle and 1 PBU against Arizona and 3 tackles and 1 PBU versus California. He had 1 tackle against Colorado and 2 tackles versus Notre Dame. He notched 3 tackles and 1 PBU in the Pac-12 Championship against Utah and 1 tackle in the Cotton Bowl versus Tulane.
WASHINGTON: He appeared in all 12 games as a redshirt freshman backup cornerback and free safety at Washington in 2021. Overall, in 2021, he had 5 tackles (with 1 sack).
He saw action in 1 game (Stanford) as a first-year freshman in 2020, but did not make a tackle.
HIGH SCHOOL: He made 2019 MaxPreps All-Arizona first team and Tacoma News-Tribune Western 100 as a senior safety at Saguaro High in Scottsdale (Ariz.). He had 30 tackles, including 5 for losses (with 3 sacks), plus 12 deflections, 2 forced fumbles, 2 fumble recoveries, 1 INT, a blocked kick and a blocked punt in 2019. Saguaro was the 2019 Arizona Open Division State runner-up.
As a 2018 junior, he had 17 tackles, including 1 for a loss, and 4 deflections, plus he had a 34-yard punt return.
He also was a sprinter on Saguaro’s track team, with bests of 11.07 in the 100 meters and 22.94 in the 200 meters.
PERSONAL: He is majoring in American Popular Culture at USC.
