Kayvon Thibodeaux, an American football outside linebacker with the New York Giants of the National Football League, was born on December 15, 2000. (NFL). He is a Los Angeles native who was voted High School Football Defensive Player of the Year by USA Today in 2017.

Where did Kayvon Thibodeaux go to college? Did Kayvon Thibodeaux play college football?

At Oregon, where he played collegiate football, Thibodeaux earned the Morris Trophy in 2020, was selected as a unanimous All-American in 2021, and was awarded the Pac-12 Defensive Freshman of the Year in 2019. The Giants selected him with the fifth overall pick in the 2022 NFL Draft. 2019 saw Thibodeaux honored as the Pac-12 Defensive Freshman of the Year. He earned first-team All-Pac-12 accolades and the Morris Trophy for defense as a sophomore, and he was selected MVP of the Pac-12 Football Championship Game in 2020. Thibodeaux missed the first two games of his junior season after injuring his ankle in the opening contest. He has seven sacks in 2021, and the 2021 College Football All-America Team unanimously selected him.