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2026 Football Roster

66 Girevis Bobey

  • Position Offensive Line
  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 285
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Midland, Texas
  • Highschool Midland Legacy

Biography

Awards:
  • Second-Team All-Lone Star Conference Offense (OG) (2025)
  • College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Football Team (2025-26)
  • 2025-26 Chi Alpha Sigma Inductee (UTPB’s Inaugural Class)
2025 (Redshirt Sophomore):
Named Second-Team All-LSC and was the top offensive lineman on the all-conference teams for the Falcons... Bobey went from reserve to key starter on the offensive line during the 2025 football season... Played in all 14 games during the season, and started each of the final 12 games at one of the guard positions (8 left guard, 4 right guard)... Totaled 886 snaps on the season and graded out at 89 percent... The Falcons' offense sat second in the LSC, averaging 461.9 total yards per game and 330.1 passing yards per game, and was third at 37.1 points per game... As a team, UTPB ranked third in the nation in passing offense, eighth in total offense and 16th in scoring offense... Named to the 2025-26 College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-District® Team. The Legacy High School grad began the 2025 campaign as a reserve offensive lineman, but two games into the season, he was thrust into the Falcons' starting lineup at guard and now he has remained a fixture on the first team. The 6-foot-2, 280-pound Bobey has brought value to the UTPB offensive line as he can play every position up front and has been moved around so the Falcons can field their best unit when they’ve endured injuries. Opposing coaches have taken notice of Bobey as he was recently named second team offensive guard on the All-Lone Star Conference team, only one of seven Falcons to be named first or second team. Bobey played left tackle during the Falcons’ 74-10 win over Sul Ross State in the regular season finale on Nov. 15. He said it was the first time he played left tackle since high school with the Rebels. Last week, Bobey was moved to right guard during UTPB’s 37-24 win over No. 4 Colorado State-Pueblo in the first round of the playoffs, which was the Falcons’ first postseason win in program history.

2024 (Redshirt Freshman):
Appeared in five games... Named to the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Lone Star Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll (4.0 Spring semester)... Earned 2025 D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award.

2023 (First-Year):
Played in three games... Named to the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 Lone Star Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll.

High School:
Was First Team All-District as a senior at Midland Legacy High School... Girevis Bobey started 2020 on the JV team as a sophomore before running away with the right tackle job on the varsity team... Bobey has the ideal body for the perfect high school lineman. But that wasn’t always the reality for Girevis. In fact, if it wasn’t for his uncle, he wouldn’t be where he is today. "When I was living in Cuba," Bobey explained. "My tio, he’s the one who brought me over here, said when you get here, you’re gonna play football and I said, 'Say Less.'” Girevis had an interesting childhood, starting in Cuba, eventually to Florida, and ultimately to where he is now: Midland Legacy. But it wasn’t always easy. "Well, I'm from Cuba, and then I lived there for since I was born to like 11 years old," Girevis said. "And then I used to play soccer, boxing, I played judo. That was like my favorite sport: judo, but Cuba didn’t have football." Eventually he made it to a place where there was football: the United States. "And then I was in Florida for like a month. But over there, it wasn't looking good." Then he got to Midland, and that’s where he finally found a place where he can do his new passion: Football. He started playing for Midland Legacy during his Sophomore year and played 7 games. Last year he played 12 games and had 47 pancake blocks. But all those pancakes could’ve gone unflipped if it weren’t for his uncle. "My uncle has been trying to give me, my mom, my brother and my dad out of Cuba. Like so ever since we were little, we've been in that process. So that process took like, six, seven years. And then yeah, my uncle came here. He got us out of Cuba," Bobey said. One of the people he most impressed when he first started playing was Midland Legacy Head Coach Clint Hartman. "I remember the first day we got him pads," remembers Hartman. He said that Bobey blocked Wesley Smith, one of his best players as a Sophomore. "I said, 'hey, we got one baby'. You know, he's not scared. He's a sophomore and Wesley was starting as a junior at that time, and strongest kid we had on the team." Although his English wasn’t the best at the time, that didn’t matter to Coach Hartman, he’s found a gem. Bobey eventually got better at English and is now a huge member of the team as a leader, as well as a straight A student, showing that despite his obvious ideal football body, Bobey is more than just a football player... Legacy senior Girevis Bobey learned as a sophomore that hitting another player hard will endear him to the head football coach. That’s what happened during Bobey’s 2020 season when the offensive lineman was playing on the scout team and was an unknown to head coach Clint Hartman. On a run play in practice, Bobey had a pulling assignment on a block, and the lineman put a hard lick on linebacker Wesley Smith, the Rebels’ best defensive player who is now a freshman at Texas Tech. The coaches ran the same play again, and Bobey again put a hard block on Smith. It didn’t take long for Bobey to get inserted into the varsity starting lineup at right offensive tackle and become a mainstay during both the 2020 and 2021 seasons. The 6-foot-2, 270-pound Bobey will move to left offensive tackle this season to protect the blind side of future Division I quarterback Marcos Davila. “I’m his bodyguard,” Bobey said of Davila. “All of us are but the left side is his blind side, that’s his most dangerous one. “No one can touch my quarterback. That’s like my girl. You’re not going to touch my girl.” Bobey is beloved by his teammates in the Larry Hall Fieldhouse, as his peers voted him team captain. But Bobey’s life as a West Texas high school football player is drastically different from how he started his childhood. Bobey was born in Havana, Cuba, and lived in the southern coastal town of Surgidero de Batabano, which sits on the shores of the Gulf of Batabano. Bobey spent his days, up until age 10-11, fishing and catching lobsters. “I used to fish every day,” Bobey said. “That was my thing. Fishing. That’s all that I miss about Cuba. Also my family, too. But like fishing (is what I miss). Right here, there’s no ocean. There’s no fishing here. I haven’t fished since a long time.” Before his teenage years, Bobey said his father Yem and mother Ylenia moved his family first to Florida for a short time and then to Midland. “Better opportunities,” Bobey said of why his family moved. “To get a better future. Because in Cuba, even if you study, you’re not going to go anywhere. You’re going to end up fishing or I don’t know. I don’t even know. Right here, there’s a lot more opportunities. Way more.” Bobey didn’t even know what football was when he was a youth in Cuba, but it has since become his passion since taking up the sport in junior high. Hartman says Bobey has become a leader that inspires his teammates and lifts them up when they’re struggling. He has perfect attendance and is always on time to all team functions. Bobey loves to compete at a high level whether it’s on the football field or the classroom. "Whenever he speaks, people listen because he doesn’t talk a whole lot,” Hartman said. “Going into last year in the spring, I remember as a junior, he told me one day while we were having a conversation, (he said) because of my language (barrier), sometimes I don’t think they listen to me. And I said, you speak the international language. They see you in your example. There’s no way they can deny how hard you work. They’ll listen. “He started talking more. He started pulling people along. Number one, he is going to show you with his work ethic. Number two, he’s going to pull you along when you ain’t doing well and he has enough guts to call you out if you’re not doing things right.”

Personal:
His younger brother, Evis, joined the UTPB football team in Fall 2026.

Statistics

Season:
2026

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Historical Player Information

  • 72

    2023Freshman

    Offensive Line
    6'2" 280 lbs
    72
  • 66

    2024Redshirt Freshman

    Offensive Line
    6'2" 280 lbs
    66
  • 66

    2025Redshirt Sophomore

    Offensive Line
    6'2" 285 lbs
    66
  • 66

    2026Redshirt Junior

    Offensive Line
    6'2" 285 lbs
    66