Coby Owens holds the WLB · Starter spot in Georgia State Panthers’s linebacker room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Coby Owens is a linebacker from Saltillo, Mississippi, who transferred to Georgia State after playing at Northeast Mississippi CC, where he posted 24 tackles and three sacks in 2023. Standing 6'0" and weighing 215 pounds, Owens wears number 20 for the Panthers. In 2025, his first season at Georgia State, he appeared in 10 games and accumulated 26 total tackles with 0.5 tackles for loss. He recorded a team-high seven tackles twice, against Vanderbilt on September 20 and Georgia Southern on October 18.