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2023 Football Roster
Gadlin, X’Zauvea
Jersey Number 73
X’Zauvea Gadlin
- Class:
- Senior
- Position:
- OL
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 320
- Prev School:
- Tulsa
- Hometown:
- Grand Prairie, Texas
Bio
2023 (R-Sr.):
- Conference USA Preseason Players to Watch list
- Outland Trophy Watch List (nation’s best interior lineman)
- Allstate AFCA Good Works Team watch list (community service)
- Wuerffel Trophy Award watch list (community service)
- Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award watch list
- Started all 13 games at right tackle
- Also saw time at left tackle and both guard positions
- Total snap count: 994 (provided by PFF.com)
- Offensive Grade: 76.9 percent (provided by PFF.com)
- Liberty’s most durable offensive player in 2022
- Played on all 932 offensive snaps during the 2022 season
- Position Breakdown:
- LG – 368 snaps
- LT – 52 snaps
- RT – 504 snaps
- Position Breakdown:
- Was Liberty’s highest-graded offensive lineman as ranked by PFF.com
- Ranked inside the top 100 in the country in total offensive plays by all FBS players
- Helped the Flames finish the season averaging 27.5 points per game
- Liberty also averaged nearly 400 yards of total offense per contest (389.4) in 2022
- Transferred to Liberty from Tulsa
- Saw playing time in 29 career games and started 22 games
- Saw playing time at both right and left guard and at center during the 2021 season
- Opted out of the 2020 season
- First collegiate start came in the 2019 opener at Michigan State
- Graduated from Mansfield Summit High School in Arlington, Texas
- Three-year letterwinner
- Played in 31 games his final three seasons of high school, and totaled 130 knockdowns
- Played four of the five line positions with the exception of center as a junior and senior
- Had 70 knockdowns his senior season, while helping his team post a 10-2 record
- Earned second-team all-district honors as a junior
- Was an academic all-district selection as a sophomore and junior
- Was the starting quarterback on his 7th and 8th grade teams, leading that team to the district championship in the 7th grade and third-place a year later
- Also lettered in basketball
- Son of Sadrina Gardner and Derriaux Galdin
- Uncle, Orion Stewart, played at Baylor and with the Tampa Bay Bucs
- Graduate with a history degree from Tulsa
- Currently pursuing master’s degree in history at Liberty
- Birthday is September 17
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