2024 Football Roster

3 Bernard Gooden

  • Position Defensive Lineman
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 280
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Montgomery, Ala.
  • Prev School Wake Forest
  • High School Park Crossing
  • Twitter Big_time321
  • Instagram beezy_on1

Biography

2024 Fourth Team All-AAC (Phil Steele)
2024 Honorable Mention All-AAC (Coaches)


A defensive tackle transfer from Wake Forest in Spring of 2023. He played in 12 games for the Demon Deacons in 2022.


2024: Named Honorable Mention All-AAC by the coaches and Fourth Team by Phil Steele...saw action in all 13 games, making 11 starts… recorded 35 tackles, 10.0 tackles for loss (third on the team), 1.5 sacks, two fumble recoveries, four quarterback hurries and two pass break-ups...tied his career high tackles of five three times on the season, vs UAB (10/19) vs Navy (11/9) and at Rice (11/30).. recorded one PBU at Alabama (9/7) and one at Rice (11/30)... recovered two fumbles in his college career, one against Alabama (9/7) and one at Charlotte (11/16)…logged five tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, a sack and a quarterback hurry vs. UAB (10/19)...had five tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss vs. Navy (11/9)...posted four tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss vs. Tulsa (11/23)...had five tackles and 1.0 tackles for loss at Rice (11/30)…posted four tackles and a tackle for loss in the Hawai’i Bowl (12/24).

2023: Sat out under NCAA transfer rules.

2022 (WAKE FOREST): Saw action in 12 games, posting seven tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss and 0.5 sacks…posted a season-best three stops, 1.5 TFL and 0.5 sacks in the opener vs. VMI (9/1)…had two tackles at Louisville (10/29) and two at NC State (11/5).

2021 (WAKE FOREST): Did not see action during the 2021 season...Redshirted

PARK CROSSING HS: Played for head coach CJ Harris … rated as the No. 38 prospect in the state of Alabama by 247sports … recorded 75 total tackles including 46 solo, three sacks, and 13.5 tackles for loss in the 2019 season … compiled 95 tackles, 30 sacks, 18 tackles for loss and 28 quarterback pressures over the course of his career … helped lead Park Crossing to a District Championship in 2016 and a 10-2 record

PERSONAL: Son of Latasha and Jeffrey Hall...named to the Athletics Honor Roll in the Fall of 2023.
GOODEN'S CAREER HIGHS
Tackles 5, (2x) last vs. Navy (11/9/24)
TFL 2.5, (2x) last vs Navy (11/9/24)
Sacks 1, vs. UAB (10/19/24)
FR 1, (2x) last at Charlotte (11/16/24)
GOODEN'S GAME-BY-GAME STATS
2024 Tackles (Total-Solo-Assists):
B-CU (1-0-1); Alabama (0-0-0); Southern Miss (0-0-0); Miami (FL) (2-1-1); Tulane (4-2-2); Memphis (2-0-2); UAB (5-2-3); Florida Atlantic (2-1-1); Navy (5-2-3); Charlotte (1-0-1); Tulsa (4-0-4); Rice (5-4-1); San Jose St. (4-2-2)

2022 Tackles (Total-Solo-Assists):
VMI (0-3-3); Louisville (0-2-2); NC State (1-1-2)

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 3

    2023Sophomore

    Defensive Lineman
    6'1" 265 lbs
    3
  • 3

    2024Senior

    Defensive Lineman
    6'1" 280 lbs
    3