2016 Season
Southland Conference Defensive Player of the Year … 2016-17 First Team All-Southland Conference … finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award (nation’s top defensive player), finishing second in the voting … two-time Southland Conference Player of the Week (9/19, 11/7) … first won it after picking up nine tackles, including 4.5 tackles for loss and two pass breakups in win at Lamar (9/17) … that effort also earned him STATS FCS National Player of the Week honors … also was named the SLC Defensive Player of the Week after picking up seven tackles, including four sacks and five tackles for loss, in win over McNeese (11/5) … the four sacks against the Cowboys tied the Sam Houston single-game record, making him just the fourth player in program history with four sacks in a single games … led Southland with 13.0 sacks … led Southland with 24.5 tackles for loss … was fifth in the league with three forced fumbles … played in and started all 13 games for the Kats , finishing with 56 total tackles … had three sacks, four tackles for a loss and a forced fumble in win over Houston Baptist (9/24) … had a pair of sacks and a forced fumble in win at Nicholls (10/22) … racked up eight tackles and a pair of sacks in FCS Playoffs quarterfinals at James Madison (12/9)
2015 Season
STATS FSC All-America second team and Associated Press and CollegeSportsMadness third team All-America selection … All-Southland Conference first team defensive end … 15th in voting for STATS FCS “Defensive Player of Year” … Bearkats’ all-time leader in tackles for loss (52 career stops for 205 yards) … No. 2 all-time at SHSU in QB sacks (23) and kick blocks (10) … led team with 75 tackles (50 solo), 22 tackles for 87 yards in losses and 11 sacks … posted season best 11 stops in regular season game at McNeese State
2014 Season
First team All-Southland Conference defensive end … third-team Sports Network and Associated Press All-America … Southland “Freshman of the Year” … College Football Performance Awards FCS “Defensive End of the Year” … finished third in voting for the Jerry Rice Award presented by Sports Network to FCS “Freshman of Year” … top defensive player in the Rice award final standings … totaled 30 tackles for loss, one short of the SHSU season record and No. 4 highest total in FCS … tied school mark and ranked No. 1 in FCS in blocked kicks with five … field goal block in fourth quarter versus Southeastern Louisiana set up winning TD drive in opening round FCS playoff game … three-time Southland Conference “Defensive Player of the Week” … two-time FCS national “Defensive Player of the Week” … single game bests included 11 tackles in McNeese win and eight solo stops in playoffs quarter-final victory at Villanova
2013 Season
Redshirted
Seguin High School
First team all-district defensive end and running back for coach Wayne Walker
Personal
Criminal Justice major ... Born April 5, 1995
