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2024 Football Roster

22 Yemi Oyesanya

  • Position Defensive Line
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 258
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Norman, Okla.
  • Highschool Norman

Biography

Awards:
  • Honorable Mention All-Lone Star Conference (DT) (2024)
  • NFF Hampshire Honor Society (2024)
2024 (Graduate Student):
Named Honorable Mention All-LSC... Played in all 12 games and led the Falcons with 8.5 sacks and 17.0 tackles for loss... Oyesanya is UTPB's new single-season sack leader... He was also fifth on the team with 45 total tackles and added one forced fumble... Led the LSC in tackles for loss and sacks in his lone season at UTPB... In addition, the UTPB defense was first in the conference in sacks (166)... Was 21st in sacks per game (0.71) and was 22nd in tackles for loss per game (1.40) in all of NCAA Division II... Had a combined 18 tackles, 8.0 tackles for loss and 3.0 sacks in his last two games of the regular season. He had eight total tackles, six solo tackles, 6.0 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks in a 64-14 victory at Eastern New Mexico (Nov. 9) and then recorded a season-high 10 total tackles to go along with 1.5 sacks and a season-high 3.0 tackles for loss in the regular-season finale against Sul Ross State (Nov. 16)... Finished with four tackles and a timely sack in the first overtime period during a heartbreaking 39-37 double overtime defeat against No. 25 Central Missouri in the 2024 Heritage Bowl (Dec. 7)... Had a forced fumble in a 21-7 road win at West Texas A&M (Oct. 26)... Announced as a member of the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) 2025 Hampshire Honor Society... Also named to the Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 Lone Star Conference Commissioner's Honor Roll in graduate school... Earned 2025 D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award.

2023:
Reunited with Head Coach Kris McCullough... Made the LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll during the Spring semester (4.0 GPA).

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