2019: Repeat selection to the D3football.com All-North Region Team … Earned All-NCAC honors for the third straight year and was a first-team selection for the second consecutive season … First repeat selection to the all-region team since Brandon James (2013-14) and first repeat first-team All-NCAC selection since Robert Flagg, Quinton Howard, and Dan Terhune (2010-11) … Anchored a defense that ranked third nationally in red zone defense and 24th in scoring defense … Part of a defense that held the opposition to 162 points and 3,433 yards, the program’s lowest totals since 2008 and 2011, respectively … Started all 10 games for the third straight year … Finished the year with 37 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, a sack, and an interception … Tallied a season-high nine tackles at Allegheny (Nov. 9) … Logged a tackle for loss and interception at DePauw (Oct. 5) … Made five stops against Denison (Oct. 19) and Ohio Wesleyan (Nov. 2).
2018: Made debut appearance on D3football.com’s All-North Region Team as a second-team honoree and was elevated to the All-NCAC first-team … Anchored a defense that finished 30th nationally with 3.2 sacks per game and held the opposition to 113.0 yards per game rushing, in what marked the team’s best showing in terms of rushing defense since 2008 … Finished 10th within the NCAC in sacks per game, led Wooster’s defensive line with 53 tackles, and tied for first on the team with 10 tackles for loss … Started all 10 games for the second straight year … Selected to D3football.com’s Team of the Week and the NCAC Defensive Player of the Week for career outing at Oberlin (Oct. 13) … Forced two fumbles on strip-sacks during the Scots’ 27-21 win against the Yeomen … Added three other tackles for loss as part of a career-high 10-tackle afternoon … Logged second career two-sack game versus the Yeomen … Totaled six or more tackles in five games.
2017: Voted to the All-NCAC second-team in first season as a starter … Started all 10 games and finished the year fifth on the team with 47 tackles, second with 6.0 tackles for loss, and tied for second with 3.5 sacks … Steady contributor with five or more tackles in six games, including a co-season-high eight versus Denison (Nov. 4) … Opened the year with five tackles and a six-yard sack in win over Bluffton (Sept. 2), and followed that up with a six-tackle afternoon at Allegheny (Sept. 9) … Logged sacks in back-to-back weeks against Ohio Wesleyan (Sept. 16) and DePauw (Sept. 23).
2016: Impact first-year, who earned significant action right away, ranking just outside the top 10 on the team with 35 tackles … One of five players on the team with at least five tackles-for-loss … Delivered a memorable collegiate debut with season-high eight tackles at national power Washington & Jefferson (Sept. 3) … Had six tackles in back-to-back games versus Wittenberg (Oct. 1) and at Oberlin (Oct. 15) … Recorded two tackles-for-loss versus Wittenberg (Oct. 1).
Prior to Wooster: Two-time all-region honoree for Corey Jarvis at Benjamin E. Mays High School … Lettered in football, lacrosse, and track & field.
Personal: Born March 15, 1998 … Son of Kimberly Boykin … Majoring in mathematics.
