Football
- Title:
- Offensive Graduate Assistant
- Email:
- dnsteven@usc.edu
- Phone:
- (213) 740-4204
Dane Stevens was named a USC offensive quality control analyst in 2020 after spending the previous 3 seasons (2017-19) as a graduate assistant at USC. He worked with the quarterbacks in 2018 and 2019 after a season with the tight ends.
In 2020, USC’s passing offense ranked 11th nationally (first in Pac-12) at 319.3. Quarterback Kedon Slovis made All-Pac-12 first team while ranking in the national Top 20 in completions (first at 29.5), passing yards (sixth at 320.2), total offense (13th at 310.7) and completion percentage (18th at .670), all tops in the Pac-12. Wide receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown also was an All-Pac-12 first teamer.
In 2019, true freshman Kedon Slovis was a Freshman All-American first teamer and the Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year while completing a school-record 71.9% of his passes for a USC frosh record 3,502 yards with 30 TDs, including a school-record 515 passing yards against UCLA (one of a USC record 4 games with 400-plus passing yards), to rank in the national Top 20 in completion percentage, passing yards, completions, passing efficiency, passing TD and total offense (his 167.9 passing efficiency rating was a USC record).
In 2018, JT Daniels threw for 2,672 yards for USC just a season after graduating high school a year early and became just the second Trojan true freshman to start a season opener at quarterback.
In 2017, USC’s tight ends had 28 receptions with 5 TDs. USC played in the 2017 Cotton Bowl.
He served as a USC student assistant coach from the spring of 2014 through the fall of 2016. USC played in the 2014 and 2015 Holiday Bowls and 2016 Rose Bowl.
He was a walk-on offensive lineman at USC as a first-year freshman in 2013, but sat out the season with an ankle injury. USC played in the 2013 Las Vegas Bowl
Stevens, 24, received his bachelor’s degree in social sciences (psychology) from USC in 2016. He currently is working on a master’s degree in communication management from USC.
He played offensive line at Mt. Paran Christian School in Kennesaw (Ga.).
Born April 16, 1996, he is single.
