COLLEGE CAREER – Played in 47 career contests, starting 37, with all three coming over the last three seasons…Accumulated 376 tackles over his four-year career with 183 solo stops, 36 stops for loss, eight sacks, three interception returns for 70 yards, eight pass breakups, 11 passes defensed, four forced fumbles and one fumble recovery. Stutsman comes to New Orleans after being a first-team All-American for the Sooners in 2024, when he started all 12 games he played in and made 109 stops, eight tackles for loss and one sack.
CAREER TRANSACTIONS – Selected in the fourth round (112th overall) of the 2025 NFL Draft.
2024 – A consensus All-American and Butkus Award finalist (named a first-team All-American by the Walter Camp Foundation and the American Football Coaches Association and a second-team All-American by the Associated Press, Football Writers Association of America and Sporting News)…An All-SEC first-team selection (coaches and media)…A recipient of Oklahoma University's Don Key Award (program's highest annual honor)…Started all 12 regular season games at middle linebacker…Opted out of the bowl game...Ranked sixth in the Southeastern Conference and 34th nationally with his team-high 109 tackles (44 solo)…Also ranked fourth in the SEC and 21st nationally by averaging 9.1 tackles per game…Added eight stops for loss, one sack and three quarterback hurries…Logged double-digit tackles four times and at least 15 three times and led team in stops in eight of 12 contests…Registered nine tackles (0.5 stop for a loss) at LSU (11/30)…Logged career-high 19 tackles at Missouri (11/9). His 19 stops were the most by a Sooner since 2018…Amassed six tackles and one sack in victory vs. Maine (11/2)…Recorded nine tackles (1.5 stops for loss) and one quarterback hurry at Mississippi (10/26)…Registered 16 tackles, including 1.5 stops for loss and one quarterback hurry vs. South Carolina (10/19)…Notched 12 tackles, including 0.5 stop for loss in win vs. Tulane (9/14)…Logged 15 tackles, including a stop for loss, vs. Houston (9/7). 2023 – Second-team Walter Camp and third-team AP All-American, All-Big 12 first-team selection and Lombardi Award semifinalist…Started all 12 games he played in and led Sooners in total tackles (104), solo tackles (51) and stops for loss (16.0). Registered three sacks (second on the team), an interception, three pass breakups, four passes defensed, two quarterback hurries, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery. Second in Big 12 and 15th nationally in stops for loss per game (1.3). Third in Big 12 and 35th nationally in tackles per game (8.7). Led OU in tackles in eight of his 12 contests. Registered double-digit tackles four times and at least nine stops six times. Notched multiple stops for loss six times…Recorded eight tackles (0.5 for loss) vs. TCU (11/24)…Registered ten tackles (one sack, two stops for loss) and forced a fumble (on a sack) at BYU (11/18)…Led team with eight tackles, including two stops for loss, vs. West Virginia (11/11)…Led team with 12 tackles, including one stop for loss and a forced fumble vs. UCF (10/21)…Logged nine tackles, including 1.5 stops for loss vs. Texas (10/7)…Registered 13 tackles, including 1.0 sack and career-high 3.5 stops for loss at Cincinnati (9/23)…Returned an interception 30 yards for a TD and finished with a team-high nine tackles, including 2.0 stops for loss, at Tulsa (9/16)…Logged 17 tackles, including 2.5 stops for loss, one QB hurry and one fumble recovery vs. SMU (9/9), earning Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week and Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week. 2022 – Earned honorable mention All-Big 12 from league head coaches…Started all 13 games. Led Big 12 Conference with 125 total tackles and ranked 18th nationally (first in Big 12) with 9.6 tackles per game. Totaled 10.5 tackles for loss (second on team), 3.0 sacks (for 22 yards), two interceptions returned for 40 yards, five pass breakups, seven passes defensed and five QB hurries. Reached double-digit tackles eight times and recorded at least seven stops in 11-of-13 games…Logged seven tackles, including a stop for a loss, a pass breakup and one QB hurry vs. Florida State in the Cheez-It Bowl in hometown of Orlando...Registered 18 tackles (nine solo) at Texas Tech (11/26), the most stops by a Sooner since 2018 and most by a Big 12 player in 2022…Notched nine tackles (six solo) with one pass breakup and a QB hurry vs. Oklahoma State (11/19)…Tallied 14 stops, including a split sack and one interception at West Virginia (11/12)…Recorded ten tackles, including 0.5 stop for loss and one QB hurry vs. Baylor (11/5)…Returned his first career interception career-long 37 yards and finished with five tackles, 0.5 stop for loss and one QB hurry at Iowa State (10/29)…Registered a team-high 13 tackles, including 1.5 stops for loss vs. Texas (10/8)…Logged ten tackles and a pass defense vs. Kansas State (9/24)…Led the squad with 12 tackles, including a career-high four stops for loss, one a quarterback takedown, vs. Kent State (9/10)…Recorded nine tackles, two pass breakups and a quarterback hurry in first career start in opener vs. UTEP (9/3). 2021 – Played in ten games as freshman. Totaled 38 tackles (21 solo), including 1.5 stops for loss, a sack for six-yard loss and two forced fumbles…Had seven tackles in Alamo Bowl win over Oregon…Registered three tackles and one split sack at Baylor (11/13)…Finished with four stops and forced one fumble in 52-21 win vs. Texas Tech (10/30)…Recorded four stops and one split sack vs. Texas (10/9)…Registered team-high eight tackles (seven solo) and forced a fumble vs. Western Carolina (9/11).
PERSONAL – Four-star prospect by 247Sports and ranked as the No. 21 player in Florida and No. 180 overall player in the country...Regarded by 247Sports as the nation's No. 13 outside linebacker and by ESPN as the No. 48 athlete...The No. 5 player in the Orlando Sentinel's Central Florida Super60...Finished career with 333 total tackles, 20 sacks, 47 stops for loss and eight forced fumbles as well as 3,252 all-purpose yards and 43 touchdowns on offense...Led Foundation (Winter Garden, Fla.) Academy to 2020 Florida 2A state semifinals as a senior and was named the All-Area Player of the Year by the West Orange Times and Observer...Finished senior season (eight games) with 78 tackles, five sacks and two interceptions on defense while gaining more than 1,000 yards and scoring 17 TDs on offense...Florida 2A All-State Team at WR junior season, helping Foundation to 2019 Florida 2A regional final...In 12 games had 110 tackles, 19 stops for loss, four pass breakups, three sacks, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery returned for a TD, as well as 44 receptions for 891 yards (20.3 avg.) with 12 TDs and 202 rushing yards and two TDs...Father (Steve; football) and mother (Suzy; basketball) played at Baylor, while sister (Sabrina) played softball at Florida State…Graduated with a degree in multidisciplinary studies…Donated a large portion of his NIL earnings to walk-on players from the Sooners football team…Born March 10, 2003 in Boca Raton, Fla.
