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Jersey Number 27
Kai Callen
- Year:
- Freshman
- Position:
- Nickel
- Hometown:
- Pocatello, Idaho
- High School:
- Carrollton [GA]
2025:
High School:
Personal:
- Redshirted to retain a year of eligibility
- Enrolled at JMU in January 2025 and participated in Spring Practice
High School:
- Georgia 6A Honorable Mention All-Region and All-Conference as a senior
- Idaho 5A First Team All-State as a junior and Second Team as a sophomore
- 5A First Team All-Southeast Idaho Conference as a sophomore and junior and Honorable Mention as a freshman
- Moved from Idaho to Georgia for his senior season
- Was previously Idaho’s top-ranked recruit in the 2025 recruiting class before moving to Georgia
- Helped Carrollton to 2024 GHSA 6A state title game appearance
- Part of Highland’s 2024 Idaho 5A state championship team and 2021 state runner-up
- Produced two interceptions and a pair of touchdowns as a senior at Carrollton High School
- Had 47 tackles with three interceptions and 10 touchdowns at a junior at Highland High School
- Also finished with more than 1,500 all-purpose yards and five touchdowns in entire high school career
- Was also an Idaho state qualifier in both the 100 and 200-meter dashes and played baseball at Highland
Personal:
- Son of Atari and Whitney Callen and Kimiko and Rudy Griffin
- Has two brothers, Tristan and AJ, and many sisters
- Has a lot of sisters
- His father Atari was a defensive back at Cal
- His stepfather Rudy was a defensive lineman at Alabama and is a defensive line coach at UT Martin
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