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94 Jacob Psyk

Height 6-3
Weight 265
Class Graduate Student
Position Defensive Line
Hometown Sugarland, Texas
High School Strake Jesuit College Prep

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- 2025 Buck Buchanan Award Finalist
- 2025 Stats Perform All-American (First Team)
- 2025 AP FCS All-American (Second Team)
- 2025 FCS Football Central All-American (Second Team)
- 2025 AFCA All-American (Second Team)
- 2025 Big Sky All-Conference (First Team)
- 2025 FCS Football Central Preseason All-American

2025 (Graduate): Played in and started 12 games at defensive end ... Racked up 48 total tackles, making 35 stops while adding 9.5 sacks and 15.5 tackles for loss ... Added three forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries, three defended passes, two blocked kicks and five quarterback hurries ... Voted unanimous first team All-Big Sky Conference ... Led the Big Sky in sacks, tackles for loss, forced fumbles and fumbles recovered ... Ended the season ranked eighth in sacks and 11th in tackles for loss ... Was nearly unstoppable against Southern Utah (Sept. 20), making seven total tackles (all solo, recording two sacks and three tackles for loss ... Made a career-high nine stops, with seven solo tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss and a career-high 2.5 sacks against Weber State (Sept. 27) ... Recorded 1.5 sacks and six tackles, adding 2.5 tackles for loss against Northern Arizona (Oct. 11) ... Found the quarterback at Northern Colorado (Oct. 25), recording three tackles and two tackles for loss to go along with one sack ... Had at least 0.5 sacks in each of final four games played, at Idaho (Nov. 8), at Montana State (Nov. 15), and against Sacramento State (Nov. 22) and Rhode Island (Dec. 6) ... Made five total stops, all solo, and had one sack in Causeway Classic.

PRE-UC DAVIS: In four seasons with the Crimson finished with 41 total tackles, 7.5 sacks, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery … Saw action in 24 total games while at Harvard … Member of the 2022 and 2024 Ivy League champions

2024 (Senior): All-Ivy League First Team… Phil Steele All-Ivy League First Team... Finished the regular season ranked 29^th nationally in sacks and 38^th in tackles for loss… Nearly half of his tackles on the season went for a loss (11 of 26)… More than half of his tackles for loss went for a sack (6.5 of 11)… Finished with 26 tackles, 11.0 tackles for a loss of 67 yards and 6.5 sacks for a loss of 47 yards… Forced a fumble and recovered one… Credited with six QB hurries… NCAA ranks: 31st in sacks, 35th in tackles for loss... Led the Ivy League in sacks and was one TFL shy of the conference lead… Led Harvard in TFL, sacks, QB hurries, forced fumbles and fumble recoveries… Had at least one TFL in seven games… Recorded at least one sack in five games… Totaled career highs in tackles (6), TFL (2.5) and sacks (2.5) vs. Princeton.

2023 (Junior): Played in all 10 games… Recorded 13 tackles with three for loss… Had one sack vs. Howard… Credited with two quarterback hurries.

2022 (Sophomore): Played in three games... Recorded two tackles... Had a tackle vs. Merrimack College and at Cornell.

2021 (Freshman): Saw action in one game.

Before Harvard: Four-time letterwinner in football and two in wrestling… Two-time unanimous first-team all-district and defensive MVP in district… National Honors Society… Academic all-district.