Leon Bell

UCF

Nov 28 (Sat)

TBA

Position:
Offensive Lineman
Height:
6-8
Weight:
330
Class:
Sixth Year
Hometown:
Dickinson, Texas
High School:
Dickinson
Prev School:
Kilgore CC/Mississippi State/California

AT COLORADO

2026 (Sixth-Year): Has played in nine games, starting nine with 563 snaps. Preseason: fourth-team All-Big 12 (Phil Steele).

Game by game:

at Georgia Tech (Sept. 3, W 14-13) (start): played.
vs. Weber State (Sept. 12, W 52-21) (start): played.
at Northwestern (Sept. 19, L 7-41) (start): played.
at Baylor (Sept. 26, L 13-23) (start): played.
vs. Texas Tech (Oct. 3, L 7-29) (start): played.
vs. Utah (Oct. 17, L 24-27) (start): played.
at Oklahoma State (Oct. 24, L 24-57) (start): played.
vs. Kansas State (Oct. 31, W 27-24 OT) (start): played.
at Arizona State (Nov. 7, L 10-20) (start): played. Made his ninth consecutive start at right guard.

AS A TRANSFER

Rated a three-star transfer prospect by 247Sports, which listed him as the No. 290 player in the portal and the No. 25 offensive tackle as of Jan. 29, 2026. Enters Colorado as a graduate transfer with one year to play one.

AT CALIFORNIA (2025)

2025 (Fifth-Year): Played in 11 games with eight starts on a line that protected a freshman quarterback who posted the second-best passing season by a Cal freshman behind Jared Goff’s 2013 and blocked for a running back with 943 rushing yards and 1,188 all-purpose yards.

AT MISSISSIPPI STATE (2023-24)

2024 (Fourth-Year): Played in two games with one start, his first career start, at right tackle against Arizona State, and also played right tackle against Eastern Kentucky.

2023 (Third-Year): Appeared in the first four games of the season at right tackle.

AT KILGORE COLLEGE (2021-22)

2022 (Second-Year): Named first-team All-Southwest Junior College Football Conference and played in 11 games, including the Heart of Texas Bowl, helping Kilgore to the SWJCFC championship.

2021 (First-Year): Played in five games for a Rangers offense that averaged 542.9 yards and 344.3 passing yards per game and reached the regional semifinals.

AT DICKINSON HIGH SCHOOL

Played for head coach John Snelson. As a senior, blocked for an offense that averaged 252.4 rushing yards per game with four 100-yard rushing efforts, 1,768 rushing yards and 27 rushing touchdowns, and 1,005 passing yards and nine touchdowns; as a junior, for an offense that rushed for 2,743 yards and 53 touchdowns with 11 100-yard games and passed for 2,320 yards and 19 touchdowns. Also played basketball.

PERSONAL

Son of April Kirk. Born Dec. 29, 2001.