NC State Safety Devan Boykin Re-Signs With Savage Wolves for 2025

Senior Safety Devan Boykin has re-signed with Savage Wolves, NC State’s Football NIL Branch (as a part of 1Pack), which means he will be returning in 2025.

We missed him on the field in 2024 but can’t wait to see what next season brings. Couldn’t be happier to announce that @thedevanboykin has re-signed with Savage Wolves for 2025. pic.twitter.com/zVOxu6liWY

— SavageWolves (@SavageWolvesNIL) December 10, 2024

Boykin missed the entire 2024 football season, recovering from a torn ACL that he suffered in Bowl prep in 2023.

Losing Boykin for the year was no small thing. In 2023 he was the Wolfpack’s starting Strong Safety. He was the 5th highest graded player on the Wolfpack’s defense according to PFF, with the best Run Defense Grade and the 3rd highest Tackling Grade. His 54 tackles ranked 4th on the team, and he was tied for the team lead in interceptions with 3.

Boykin was expected to play at some point this season. At the beginning of the year, Wolfpack Head Coach Dave Doeren thought he would end up on the field sometime in October. Then, at the end of September, Doeren was hopeful he would be available for the final 4 regular season games. If he would have only played in the final 4 games of the regular season, he would have still been able to redshirt the year. Nonetheless, Boykin didn’t suit up at all this year, but was a leader in the locker room and the sideline. Maybe Boykin never got back to 100%, or maybe when he reached that point, there was no need risking it and losing the chance to play a full season, with Bishop Fitzgerald and DK Kaufman settled in.

If Boykin is healthy next season, I would expect him to slot in as a starter at one of the two Safety positions.

At this point, Savage Wolves has now signed 4 starters for the Wolfpack secondary next year in Cornerback Brandon Cisse, Cornerback Devon Marshall and Nickel Tamarcus Cooley.

Boykin is the 9th player to re-sign with Savage Wolves.

WR Jonathan Paylor

CB Devon Marshall

LB Caden Fordham 

CB Brandon Cisse

QB CJ Bailey

RB Hollywood Smothers

LB Sean Brown