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2024 Football Roster

82 James Knox

  • Position Defensive Line
  • Height 6-4
  • Class Senior
  • Weight 250
  • Hometown Sandy Hook, Conn.
  • Previous School Newtown
  • College Columbia College
  • Major Economics

Biography

2024: Played in eight games, making seven starts … Posted 14 tackles on the season … Had season-highs of four tackles in wins over Yale and at Penn.

2023: Saw action in all 10 games, making nine starts … Registered 26 tackles with 1.5 for a loss … Set career-high wigh seven tackles at Yale … Posted five tackles at Dartmouth.

2022: Played in nine contests, making six starts … Compiled 15 tackles with 2.5 for a loss and a sack … Made three tackles against Yale …. Posted three tackles and added a half sack at Penn … Assisted for first career sack against Wagner.
 
2021: Saw action in six games as a sophomore defensive lineman … Listed as a backup defensive tackle on the depth chart … Saw action vs. Brown (Nov. 13), Penn (Oct. 16), at Central Connecticut State (Oct. 9), at Princeton (Oct. 2), Georgetown (Sept. 25) and Marist (Sept. 18) … Made one tackle and one tackle for loss for two yards in career debut and season opener vs. Marist (Sept 18).
 
2020: Season canceled due to COVID pandemic.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2020 graduate of Newtown High School in Newtown, Conn., where he played three years of varsity football for Head Coach Robert Pattison … Named a National High School Coaches Association Academic All-American … Second Team Walter Camp All-State selection in 2019 … Named to the All-CSSCA All-State First Team (top-26) … Named to the All-State Elite Team and ranked a top-26 player in Connecticut … Two-time All-South Western Conference team selection (2018 and 2019) … Three-time All-South Western Conference Academic Team member … Served as team captain as a senior … Played defensive line all four seasons … Led the Nighthawks to four straight South Western Conference titles (2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019) … In three-year career, finished with 130 tackles, 35 tackles for loss, 22 sacks, nine fumble recoveries, five forced fumbles, one fumble recovery touchdown and one blocked punt … Finished with 55 tackles (37 solo), 11 sacks, forced three fumbles and recovered six fumble as a senior … Also scored touchdown on a fumble return and blocked a punt … Led the Nighthawks to a perfect 13-0 season, state Class LL Connecticut high school championship, and South Western Conference title as a senior … Made 37 total tackles with four sacks, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries as a junior … National Honor Society member … National World Language Honor Society member … Three-time National Latin Award recipient … Earned the Latin Seal of Bi-literacy … Involved in a variety of volunteer activities and community service including serving as a youth football coach, REACH mentorship program mentor, REACH summer camp counselor, and Latin tutor.
 
PERSONAL: Enrolled at Columbia College.

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Historical Player Information

  • 82

    2020First Year

    Defensive Lineman
    6'4" 245 lbs
    82
  • 82

    2021Sophomore

    Defensive Lineman
    6'4" 250 lbs
    82
  • 82

    2022Junior

    Defensive Lineman
    6'4" 250 lbs
    82
  • 82

    2023Senior

    Defensive Lineman
    6'4" 250 lbs
    82
  • 82

    2024Senior

    Defensive Line
    6'4" 250 lbs
    82