Two-time All-CAA selection, earning third-team honors his final two seasons … Recorded 36 career starts …Finished his career with 154 tackles, 8.0 sacks, 18.0 TFL, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery …
SENIOR YEAR (2017)
All-CAA Third Team honoree for the second straight season … Started all 10 games in which she appeared … Finished the season with 39 tackles, 4.0 sacks, 6.5 TFL and a PBU … Totaled a season-high seven tackles with a TFL and half sack against Towson … Posted six tackles and a half sack versus No. 21/19 New Hampshire … Recorded three tackles, 2.0 TFL and a sack against Stony Brook … Also tallied sacks in the wins versus Norfolk State and Bucknell … Totaled six tackles at Elon …
JUNIOR YEAR (2016)
Earned third-team All-CAA honors … Started all 11 games … Finished the season with 37 tackles, 2.0 TFL, a forced fumble and a PBU … Recorded four tackles, all solo, with a TFL and a forced fumble at New Hampshire … Registered three tackles, a TFL and a PBU in the win against Delaware … Totaled six tackles at Towson … Posted five-tackle efforts at NC State and versus Elon … BSO Male Athletes Award …
SOPHOMORE YEAR (2015)
Started all 13 games at defensive tackle … Finished the season with 36 tackles, 3.5 TFL, a sack, a forced fumble and a PBU … Totaled a career-high nine tackles with 0.5 TFL at Delaware … Posted a sack in the win against No. 19/20 New Hampshire … Recorded a pair of tackles for a loss and a forced fumble in the shutout victory against Stony Brook … Registered four stops at Virginia and in the triumph versus Towson …
FRESHMAN YEAR (2014)
Appeared in all 12 games and earned two starts … Became W&M’s first true freshman defensive lineman to start since 2001 … Finished the season with 42 tackles, 3.0 sacks, 6.0 tackles for a loss, a fumble recovery and a PBU … Earned his first career start in the Week 2 win at Hampton … Recorded a career-high seven tackles, 1.5 sacks and 2.0 TFL against No. 5/4 Villanova … Posted six stops, a TFL and recovered a fumble at James Madison … Registered his first career solo sack in the win against Lafayette …
HIGH SCHOOL
Three-year letterwinner as a defensive tackle and offensive lineman for head coach Clay Lloyd at Smyrna High School … Served as a team captain as a senior … Earned second-team all-conference honors as a junior and a senior … Garnered team’s defensive MVP in 2012 and 2013 … Posted 55 tackles (29 solo) with 10 tackles for a loss, a sack and two forced fumbles as a senior … Totaled 65 tackles (33 solo) with 8.5 sacks, 13.5 tackles for a loss and two forced fumbles as a junior … Lettered in wrestling and track and field … Placed sixth at the state meet in discus … Four-year member of the honor roll … Participated on the school news team …
PERSONAL
Son of Lary Stephens and Portia Busaitis ... Majoring in kinesiology.
