TicketsAll-Big 12 First Team (2024)
Career
In contention for All-America honors in 2025 following All-Big 12 First Team and 50-catch season in 2024...Has 54 career receptions and 26 games played in his career at Cincinnati and Ohio State...Started career with the Buckeyes but played in only 14 games due to injuries over three seasons.
2024
Emerged as one of the top tight ends in the country in his first season of significant playing time after transferring back home to Cincinnati from Ohio State...Tallied 50 receptions for 521 yards and three touchdowns en route to All-Big 12 First Team accolades...Set the Cincinnati single-season receptions by a tight ends record...The record was previously held by Travis Kelce (45, 2012)...Finished the season with seven catches for 32 yards versus TCU...Had one catch at Kansas State and two grabs at Iowa State...Totaled four receptions for 31 yards versus West Virginia...Made four grabs for 50 yards and one score at Colorado...Helped lead Cincinnati to a 24-14 victory over Big 12 champion Arizona State by making four catches for 41 yards...Made a season-high eight receptions for 84 yards at UCF...Totaled seven catches for 66 yards at Texas Tech...Had two receptions for 31 yards versus Houston...Had three receptions for 27 yards and one score at Miami (Ohio)...Nearly had two more touchdowns versus the Redhawks but one was called back by penalty and one was lost due to a fumble in the endzone while fighting for extra yardage...Had three catches for 49 yards and a touchdown against Pitt...Opened the season with five receptions for 89 yards versus Towson.
Appeared in 14 games and made four catches as a tight end for Ohio State from 2021 to 2023...Had one reception against Georgia in the 2022 College Football Playoff Semifinals...Consensus four-star prospect and among the Top 10 recruits in Ohio coming out of Elder High School in the 2020 signing class...Caught 70 passes for 1,258 yards and 15 touchdowns in his prep career and grabbed First Team All-Ohio honors as a senior in 2019.