CAREER HONORS
- Second Team All-Big 12 (2023)
- Dick Butkus Preseason Watch List (2023)
- Chuck Bednarik Preseason Watch List (2023)
- Bronko Nagurski Preseason Watch List (2023)
- AAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2022-23)
- First Team All-AAC (2022)
- FCS All-American (2020, 2021)
FIFTH YEAR (2023)
- Second-team LB pick on All-Big 12 team chosen by league coaches
- Finished his career with 475 tackles
- Led the team in ’23 with 114 tackles (third in Big 12 at 8.4 per game) for third straight season with 100+ tackles
- Became first UCF player with back-to-back 100-tackle seasons since Clayton Geathers and Terrance Plummer did it in ’12 and ’13
- Second-team pick on College Football Network Midseason All-Big 12 defensive team
- Registered three tackles vs. Kent State
- Led UCF with eight tackles vs Boise State
- Secured team-high-tying six tackles vs Villanova
- Team-high 12 (all solo) tackles vs Kansas State
- Career-high-tying 15 tackles vs Baylor
- Had team-high eight tackles at Kansas, including 1 TFL
- Tallied nine tackles tackles vs Oklahoma
- Notched a team-high 11 tackles vs West Virginia
- Added eight tackles vs Cincinnati
- Had five tackles vs Oklahoma State including one sack for 11 yards
- Amassed eight tackles vs Texas Tech
- Secured eight tackles including career-high two sacks for 16 yards vs Houston
- Career mark of 8.73 tackles per game ranks fifth among active NCAA players
- One of six team captains for ‘23
- First-team LB on Lindy’s, Phil Steele and Pro Football Focus ‘23 preseason All-Big 12 teams, 3rd-team by College Football Network
- Named to the watch lists for Nagurski, Butkus and Bednarik awards
- Named ’22 AAC Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year
- Semifinalist for ’23 NFF Campbell Trophy to top student-athlete nationally based on 3.64 GPA
- Working toward second degree in sociology in fall ‘23 semester
SENIOR (2022)
- Started all 14 games
- First-team All-AAC selection in 2022 by vote of league coaches and by Phil Steele
- Second-team All-AAC by Pro Football Network
- Finished as leading UCF tackler with 126
- Ranked 31st nationally and third in AAC at 9.0 tackles per game
- Boasts 43 career starts—14 at UCF, 29 at Eastern Illinois
- Team-leading 12 tackles (9 solo) vs. Louisville
- Led team with 10 tackles and one TFL vs. FAU
- Team-leading eight tackles and one QB hurry vs. Georgia Tech
- Logged a team-high-tying nine tackles vs. SMU plusone fumble recovery
- Tallied a team-high nine tackles vs. Temple, plus one TFL and one QBH
- Recorded a game-high 15 tackles at ECU, plus one QBH
- Team-high seven tackles, half a sack for 2 and 1.5 TFL for 3 and 1 QBH vs. Cincinnati
- Notched a team-high 13 tackles vs. Memphis
- At Tulane, recorded a team-high-tying eight tackles, one sack for 12 yards, one forced fumble
- Had a team-high-tying 13 tackles vs. Navy including half a TFL
- Made team-high 11 tackles at USF
- Made 5 tackles, 1 FF, 1 FR vs. Tulane in AAC title game
- Had 7 tackles and 1 QBH vs. Duke in Military Bowl
- Third in AAC and 22nd (tie) nationally in fumble recoveries (2);
PRIOR TO UCF
- Transferred to UCF from Eastern Illinois where he was a two-time FCS All-American
- Stared every game at linebacker in 2020 and 2021 at Eastern Illinois
- First-team all-Ohio Valley Conference linebacker in 2020 and 2021
- Led Ohio Valley Conference in tackles in 2021 with 112
- Named to Hero Sophomore All-America team in both 2020 and 2021
- Recovered four fumbles in 2021 to tie for FCS lead and also had eight tackles for loss
- Started all six games of 2020 campaign that was played in spring 2021
- Made 66 tackles and had six tackles for loss, one sack and one forced fumble, leading Ohio Valley Conference in tackles per game and ranking ninth in FCS
- Made 15 tackles vs. Tennessee Tech and 14 vs. Tennessee State
- Played in 10 games and started six times as true freshman in 2019
- Named to Ohio Valley Conference All-Newcomer team in 2019
- Made 59 tackles to go with 4.5 tackles for loss, one sack, one forced fumbles, one fumble recovery in 2019
- Made 12 tackles vs. Southeast Missouri
- Named second-team Freshman All-American by Phil Steele for 2019
- Played linebacker and receiver at Rich Central High School in Olympia Fields, Illinois
- Southland Conference Defensive MVP as senior in 2018
- Made 92 tackles, with 12 tackles for loss and three sacks while helping team to Illinois 5A playoffs
- Named first-team all-conference and second-team all-area
- Caught 26 passes for 569 yards and four touchdowns as senior
- Team captain in 2018 as senior
PERSONAL - Graduated in May 2023, majoring in integrative general studies in College of Undergraduate Studies . . . received 2022 AAC All-Academic Team honors.