Eric Stuart holds the MLB · Starter spot in Temple Owls’s linebacker room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Eric Stuart is a 6'2", 215-pound linebacker for Temple. A transfer from Foothill College, where he recorded 34 tackles and 5.0 TFLs across eight games in 2023, Stuart joined Temple and started the first three games of the 2024 season before suffering an injury. In 2025, his redshirt junior year, he appeared in the linebacker rotation and collected 44 total tackles with 19 solos, 1.5 TFLs, and one fumble recovery. Stuart earned NovaCare Male Comeback Player of the Year honors and served as a team captain. He is set to return in 2026 as a redshirt senior and received fourth-team preseason All-American Conference recognition from Athlon Sports.