Biography
2026 at Charleston Southern: Selected as a Third-Team Preseason All-American by Stats Perform, only of only three players in the OVC to make the lists ... Earned Phil Steele Preseason First-Team All-Conference as well as the OVC Preseason Defensive Player of the Year by the outlet ... Named to the Preseason Watch List for the Buck Buchanan Award, given to the top defensive player in the FCS and was the only OVC member represented on the list
2025 at Charleston Southern: Selected First-Team All-Conference by the league's head coaches ... Earned First-Team All-Conference by Phil Steele ... Named Preseason First-Team All-Conference by Phil Steele ... Selected as OVC / Big South Defensive Player of the Week twice during the season with them coming on September 22 and October 20 ... Played in all 12 games and started in each of the final 11 games and collected 10 or more tackles in six games and had three rank as his fewest in a game ... Ended the year with 109 tackles (fifth-most in CSU history), 4.5 tackles for loss, .5 sacks, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and an interception ... Led the conference in tackles with 9.1 per game and ranked 22nd nationally in the statistic ... He finished the William & Mary game with 19 tackles for a career-best, tying the OVC-Big South Football Association record and the most by a CSU player since 2006 ... Followed that game with 14 against South Carolina and 12 facing Gardner-Webb picking up a forced fumble in the game ... Got his first career interception at Coastal Carolina ... Posted 16 stops at Western Illinois including 19 in the second half ... Forced a fumble in the season finale against Tennessee State ... Posted back-to-back games with 10 tackles in November facing Southeast Missouri State and UT Martin.
2024 at Charleston Southern: Named a Third-Team All-Conference selection by Phil Steele ... Named Big South/OVC Defensive Player of the Week (9/2) following an eight tackle performance against The Citadel ... Played and started in all 12 games during the fall as a linebacker in his second season ... Finished the year wtih 80 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss, three sacks, one fumble recovery and one pass breakup ... Had a career-best 11 tackles in the conference finale at Eastern Illinois which included a career-best 2.0 tackles for loss/sacks ... Also had double digit tackles against Southeast Missouri State as he had ten on the day ... Collected eight or more tackles in six games and had four or more in 11 of them ... Recorded a fumble recovery against The Citadel and a pass breakup at Eastern Illinois ... Averaged 6.7 tackles per game for seventh in the league and 143rd nationally.
2023 at Charleston Southern: Made six appearances on on the year with his career debut coming at Clemson (9/9) ... Collected three tackles in the season finale at Gardner-Webb (11/18) for a career-high ... Recorded 1.5 TFLs in two games on the year at Tennessee State (11/4) and at Gardner-Webb (11/18) and 1.0 sacks in each contest.
High School: Originally from Indian Trail, South Carolina and played at Porter Ridge High School under coach Mike Hertz ... Was a two-way player at the school ... Was a four-year varsity starter and served as a team captain for his junior and senior seasons ... Named 2022 SCC Defensive Player of the Year and All-Conference ... In 2021, he earned Second-Team All-State as well as All-Conference honors ... In his senior year, he collected 93 tackles, nine TFLs, two sacks, three interceptions, three pass break-ups as well as pick-six while on the offensive end he had 84 carries for 659 yards (7.8 per carry), as well as 11 receptions for 102 yards ... During his junior year, he had 101 tackles, 15 TFLs, four sacks, two interceptions, two forced fumbles, six pass break-ups and a blocked field goal as well as 54 carries for 562 yards (10.4 per carry), seven receptions for 113 yards and five total touchdowns ... Helped lead Porter Ridge to three state playoff appearances collecting wins in 2019 and 2021 with the latter season including a pair of victories ... In 2022 against conference foe Marvin Ridge, he had 11 tackles, an interception, 21 carries, 129 rushing yards and three touchdowns ... In 2021 in a playoff game at Chambers, he had 20 tackles, a forced fumble, an interception, a blocked field goal, three carries, 18 rushing yards and a touchdown ... Also was a member of the track & field team ... Twin sister, Julia, plays lacrosse at Newberry ... Father, Steve, played football at Wayne State ... Also received offers from FBS programs in Appalachian State and Kennesaw State.
