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ASU: Expected to move into the Sun Devils' starting lineup after playing in all 12 games last year ... an all-conference candidate.
1999: Played in all 12 games ... started at Oregon when Courtney Jackson moved to safety ... along with fellow JC transfer Kenny Williams, backed up the starting tandem of Jackson and Kareem Clark ... those four corners regularly rotated ... also played a lot in nickel and dime packages ... posted 32 tackles, with 21 unassisted ... had two tackles for loss, one against Washington State and the other against Stanford ... recorded one interception and had a career-high eight tackles against Oregon, including six unassisted ... broke up five pass plays ... led the team in fumble recoveries with two ... one recovery was against UCLA and the other came in ASU's win over Washington ... returned one punt for nine yards against Notre Dame.
JUNIOR COLLEGE: A consensus first-team junior college All-American in 1998 ... listed as the No. 27 Junior College Prospect in the United States by SuperPrep Magazine ... listed under "Best of the Rest" in junior colleges by PrepStar Magazine ... earned first-team all-state defense by the all-California Community College Bureau.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 1997 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School ... lettered three times in football, once in track and field and played basketball his freshman year ... was all-league in football his junior and senior years ... was all-league in track his senior year ... competed in the long jump ... lists his greatest high school sports experience occurring his junior year when he had a great defensive game against Jordan High.
PERSONAL: Major is pre-BIS ... parents are Ray and Mary Eason of Long Beach, Calif. ... has three siblings (Nadjara, 22, Ray, 17 and Raikeem, 9) ... born May 20, 1979 ... lists watching football as his favorite hobby ... full name is Nijrell Eason.
CAREER HIGHS:
Unassisted Tackles: 6, at Oregon (10/30/99).
Assisted Tackles: 2, three times, last vs. Arizona (11/27/99).
Total Tackles: 8, at Oregon (10/30/99).
Interceptions: 1, at Oregon (10/30/99).
Pass Deflections: 1, five times, last vs. Stanford (11/13/99).
Eason's Career Statistics
G/GS UT/AT TT TFL/Yds. Sacks/Yds. PD FF FR Int.
1999 12/1 22/11 33 2/6 0/0 5 0 2 1
Game-by-Game Statistics
1999
| Opp. | AT | UT | TT | Int. | PD |
| Texas Tech | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| New Mexico St. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| @California | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| UCLA | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| @Notre Dame | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| @Washington | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Washington St. | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| @Oregon | 2 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| @USC | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Stanford | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Arizona | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Wake Forest | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
