Notable Players Developed
- Nick Bolton (Kansas City)
- Leo Chanel (Kansas City)
- DeMarvion Overshown (Dallas)
- Matt Milano (Buffalo)
- Tremaine Edmunds (Chicago)
Player Accolades
- All-Pac-10
- Cal Team Captain 15 NFL Seasons
- All-Pro Selection
- 2x Pro Bowl Selection
- 5x Walter Payton Man of the Year Nominee
Notable Cal Teammates
- Aaron Rodgers
- Marshawn Lynch
- Tosh Lupoi
- Thomas DeCoud
- Daymeion Hughes
- Justin Forsett
- Matt Giordano
- J.J. Arrington
- Alex Mack
- Geoff McArthur
Travers Family Head Football Coach Tosh Lupoi announced the addition of 15-year NFL veteran and Cal Alum, Lorenzo Alexander as the team’s assistant edge coach on January 15, 2026.
Coming out of Cal, Alexander was an undrafted free agent who cut his teeth in the league as a special teams coverage player. To stay in the league he bulked up to play both defensive and offensive line, before transitioning back to a more natural position of linebacker for most of his career.
A two-time Pro Bowl selection, once as a special teamer (2012) and once as a linebacker in the 2016 season with the Bills when he led the team with 12.5 sacks, Alexander truly defied the odds.
In college, Lorenzo was one of the most dominant interior linemen in the Pac-10 as a player, consistently drawing double-team strategy from opposing offenses. He was named honorable mention All-Pac-10 for two straight seasons and tabbed second team All-Pac-10 by Athlon Sports in its 2004 preseason magazine. He later earned the Brick Muller Award as the team's most valuable defensive lineman after surpassing his career-high in tackles with 33 stops in 2003.
In 2002, he blossomed into one of the conference's better defensive interior linemen, earning All-Pac-10 honorable mention notice as a sophomore. He posted 25 tackles (19 solo), five tackles for losses, one sack and one fumble recovery in winning the Bob Tessier Award as the team's Most Improved Lineman on defense. He played in all 12 games, drawing six starts.
As a freshman, he received playing time in all 11 games and pocketed 24 tackles (including five for losses of 15 yards), one sack and one fumble recovery in earning 2001 Pac-10 All-Freshmen first team honors from The Sporting News. He started the last five games at defensive tackle, a period in which he notched 16 tackles. He punched out season-high six tackles in the Big Game at Stanford.
In high school, he earned SuperPrep All-America honors, ranking as the No. 7 defensive line recruit in the country. He was also rated as the No. 44 prospect in the nation by SuperPrep and ranked No. 5 among all recruits in the Far West. He was ranked as the No. 2 defensive line prospect in the West by PrepStar, earning Dream Team status and rated as the No. 10 defensive line prospect in the country by that publication. He was later chosen to play on the California state all-star team versus Florida. He finished his senior season with 120 tackles, including 17 sacks among 25 tackles behind the line of scrimmage and also caused five fumbles and recovered three others.
