2020-21: Semifinalist for the NFF Campbell Trophy and was a nominee for the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team® … Member of the NFF Hampshire Honor Society ... Started both exhibition contests at linebacker and tallied 13 tackles … Credited with six tackles versus DePauw (March 13) and seven versus Ohio Wesleyan (April 2) … Member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll for the third time.
2019: Voted to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® second team … The College’s 50th all-time CoSIDA Academic All-American® and the 14th from the football team … Started all 10 games at linebacker … Finished the year with 53 tackles, two shy of the team lead, and had 4.5 tackles for loss and one sack … Tallied a career-high 11 tackles at Allegheny (Nov. 9) a week removed from a nine-tackle afternoon in win over Ohio Wesleyan (Nov. 2) … Logged nine tackles and a sack in Wooster’s win over Wabash (Oct. 12), in what marked the Scots’ first win over the Little Giants since 2004 … Had two tackles for loss and five tackles total at Wittenberg (Sept. 21) … Member of the NCAC Academic Honor Roll.
2018: Broke camp in the regular linebacker rotation and earned a pair of starts by season’s end … Played in all 10 games and finished the year with 32 tackles and two fumble recoveries … Erupted for a season-high 10 tackles and a fumble recovery versus Kenyon (Oct. 27), in what marked Wooster’s first shutout since 2010, and went on to tally 13 tackles over final two games of the season … 23 of 32 tackles came over final three games … Opened the year with three tackles in win at Bluffton (Sept. 1) … Named to the NCAC Academic Honor Roll.
Prior to Wooster: Attended Pennsylvania State University for a year, but did not play any varsity sports … Prior to that, two-time WPIAL Premiere Pigskin Performer and first-team all-conference linebacker at Mount Lebanon High School … Prepped for Mike Melnyk.
Personal: Born Dec. 22, 1998 … Son of Paul and Susan Kraus … Majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology.