University of North Carolina Athletics
2025 Football Roster

Jersey Number 5
Gavin Gibson
- Position:
- Defensive Back
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 185
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Hometown:
- Hickory, N.C.
- High School:
- Hough
2025 - Senior Season at Carolina
- Started all 12 games at safety in 2025
- Finished the season with 38 tackles, including 25 solo stops
- Also tallied three tackles for loss and three pass breakups
- Was fifth on the team in defensive snaps played with 636
- Had an impressive debut in Carolina Blue, recording six tackles with four solo tackles in the season opener against TCU
- Graded out as the team’s second best run defender according to Pro Football Focus at 76.7
2024 - Junior Season at East Carolina
- Totaled 52 tackles, including 25 solo stops in 13 games as a starting nickel at ECU in 2024, while also adding 6.5 tackles for loss and a forced fumble
- Intercepted three passes, returning one for a touchdown, and tallied six passes defended
- Made a season-high nine tackles on Sept. 7, 2024, at Old Dominion
- Started 10 games and helped lead the Pirates to a Military Bowl win over NC State with a sack and four tackles in 50 snaps
2023 - Sophomore Season at Maryland
- Appeared in nine games during sophomore campaign
- Recorded 15 tackles (four solo) with 2.0 TFLs (-7 yards)
- Booked season-high four tackles against Illinois (three solo), which tied his career-high from 2022 against Charlotte
- Also had multiple stops against Virginia (2), Michigan State (2), Indiana (2) and Ohio State (3)
- Registered TFLs against Virginia (-6 yards) and Illinois (-1 yard)
2022 - Freshman Season at Maryland
- Played in 11 of the Terrapins 13 games
- Totaled 17 tackles (13 solo), two tackles for loss, one sack and three pass breakups
- Added 2.0 TFLs (-3 yards) which came against Charlotte (-1 yard) and Michigan (-2 yards)
- Registered at least one tackle in 8 of 9 games played (multiple five times)
- Set personal-best in tackles (four) at Charlotte
- Credited with three pass breakups (SMU, Michigan State and NC State)
- Booked two tackles and a PBU in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl
- Also recorded multiple stops against Buffalo (2), SMU (3) and Michigan (3)
Hough High School
- Top-25 player in North Carolina
- Helped lead William Amos Hough HS to 14-1 record in 2021
- 2021 All-IMeck
- Totaled 41 tackles, five interceptions and one sack this season
- Father Alvin played collegiately at Lenoir-Rhyne under former ECU head coach Mike Houston and current ECU Head Coach Blake Harrell
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