2023 USC Football Spring Roster
Roster
Height, Romello

Jersey Number 2
Romello Height
- Position:
- Rush End
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 230
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Dublin, Ga.
- High School:
- Dublin HS / Auburn
Bio
CAREER: In his 3-year career (2 years at Auburn and 1 year at USC), he has 18 tackles, including 3 for losses, while appearing in 12 games with 2 starts.
2023: Height, returning from an injury that cut the 2022 season short, will compete for playing time at rush end as a redshirt junior in 2023.
2022: Height started 2 games (Rice and Stanford) in his first year with the Trojans in 2022. His season was cut short by a season-ending shoulder injury.
AUBURN: He made 19 tackles, including 3 for losses, while appearing in 9 games (all but Mississippi, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Alabama) as a redshirt freshman edge player in 2021 at Auburn. He had 3 tackles against Akron, 4 tackles (1 for a loss) versus Alabama State, 2 tackles (with 1.5 for losses) at Penn State, 1 tackle against Georgia State, 2 tackles at LSU, 4 tackles (0.5 for loss) at Arkansas, 1 tackle at South Carolina and 1 tackle against Houston in the Birmingham Bowl.
Height, who enrolled at Auburn in the spring of 2020 after graduating a semester early from high school, appeared in 1 game (LSU) as a first-year freshman in 2020 but did not make a tackle. Current Trojan Chris Thompson Jr. also attended Auburn.
HIGH SCHOOL: He was 2019 MaxPreps Small Schools All-American first team, Georgia Class 2A Defensive Player of the Year and All-Region as a senior defensive end and wide receiver at Dublin (Ga.) High. He had 27 tackles for loss with 16 sacks, returned an interception 60 yards for a TD, recovered 2 fumbles and forced 2 fumbles in 2019, plus he caught 2 passes for 112 yards (56.0 avg) with a TD and returned a kickoff 43 yards (43.0 avg). Dublin won the Class AA state title in 2019.
He also played basketball at Dublin.
PERSONAL: He is majoring in American Popular Culture at USC.
2023: Height, returning from an injury that cut the 2022 season short, will compete for playing time at rush end as a redshirt junior in 2023.
2022: Height started 2 games (Rice and Stanford) in his first year with the Trojans in 2022. His season was cut short by a season-ending shoulder injury.
AUBURN: He made 19 tackles, including 3 for losses, while appearing in 9 games (all but Mississippi, Texas A&M, Mississippi State, Alabama) as a redshirt freshman edge player in 2021 at Auburn. He had 3 tackles against Akron, 4 tackles (1 for a loss) versus Alabama State, 2 tackles (with 1.5 for losses) at Penn State, 1 tackle against Georgia State, 2 tackles at LSU, 4 tackles (0.5 for loss) at Arkansas, 1 tackle at South Carolina and 1 tackle against Houston in the Birmingham Bowl.
Height, who enrolled at Auburn in the spring of 2020 after graduating a semester early from high school, appeared in 1 game (LSU) as a first-year freshman in 2020 but did not make a tackle. Current Trojan Chris Thompson Jr. also attended Auburn.
HIGH SCHOOL: He was 2019 MaxPreps Small Schools All-American first team, Georgia Class 2A Defensive Player of the Year and All-Region as a senior defensive end and wide receiver at Dublin (Ga.) High. He had 27 tackles for loss with 16 sacks, returned an interception 60 yards for a TD, recovered 2 fumbles and forced 2 fumbles in 2019, plus he caught 2 passes for 112 yards (56.0 avg) with a TD and returned a kickoff 43 yards (43.0 avg). Dublin won the Class AA state title in 2019.
He also played basketball at Dublin.
PERSONAL: He is majoring in American Popular Culture at USC.
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