Steele Chambers is an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

linebacker Linebacker (LB) is a playing position in gridiron football. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage and the defensive linemen. They are the "middle ground" of defenders, ...

for the

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Early life and high school career

Chambers attended

Blessed Trinity Catholic High School Blessed Trinity Catholic High School, also known as Blessed Trinity or, informally BT, is an Archdiocesan Catholic high school in Roswell, Georgia, United States, a northern suburb of Atlanta. The multi-level curriculum provides Advanced Placemen ...

in Roswell, Georgia. He played linebacker and

running back A running back (RB) is a member of the offensive backfield in gridiron football. The primary roles of a running back are to receive handoffs from the quarterback to rush the ball, to line up as a receiver to catch the ball, and block. Ther ...

in high school. He committed to

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

to play college football.

College career

Chambers played running back his first two years at Ohio State in 2019 and 2020, before switching to linebacker prior to the 2021 season. As a running back he had 28 carries for 221 yards and one

touchdown A touchdown (abbreviated as TD) is a scoring play in gridiron football. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team scores a touchdown by advancing the ball into the opponent's end zone. In Amer ...

. In his first year as a linebacker, Chambers started four of 13 games and had 47 tackles, one sack and one interception. He returned to Ohio State as a starter in 2022.'We have learned a lot.' Ohio State's Steele Chambers excited about new Buckeyes defense
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References

External links

Ohio State Buckeyes bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chambers, Steele Living people Players of American football from Georgia (U.S. state) American football linebackers American football running backs Ohio State Buckeyes football players Year of birth missing (living people)