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AT COLORADO: This Season (Soph.)-Enters the fall
listed second at tight end. He improved
during the spring, and caught three passes for 32 yards in main scrimmage
action.
2011 (Fr.-RS)-He saw action in seven games on
offense and special teams (one start, versus Washington State when the offense
opened in a two-tight end set),. He did
not have any receptions, but had one knockdown block on kickoff return unit
duty. He had a solid spring, catching
five passes for 68 yards and two touchdowns in the three main spring
scrimmages. Three of those receptions
for 50 yards came in the spring game, including touchdowns that covered 22 and
seven yards.
2010 (Fr.)-Redshirted; practiced
the entire fall at tight end. He was the
Scout Team Special Teams Award winner for the Georgia game.
HIGH
SCHOOL-The first signee
to commit in June of 2009, he earned All-Region honors from PrepStar and SuperPrep, where he was ranked as the No. 48 player from the
midlands and was the third tight end on that list. He was one of seven tight ends named to the
prestigious Tacoma News-Tribune
Western 100 list. Rivals.com ranked him
as the No. 11 player from Colorado while Scout.com ranked him the No. 45 tight
end and ESPN ranked him as the No. 53 tight end in the country. In his career, he had 100 receptions for
1,298 yards and eight touchdowns. As a
senior, he earned All-Colorado (all classifications) as a defensive end and
All-State (5A) as a tight end by the Denver
Post. He also earned first-team
All-Big 8 league honors on both offense and defense and was named first-team
All-Area by the Columbine Courier. On offense as a senior, he caught 40 passes
for 412 yards while on defense, he had 68 tackles, 12 sacks, 10 pass break-ups
and eight forced fumbles. Against
Columbine, he had eight catches on offense and 12 tackles as Chatfield came
back from a 13-0 deficit to win 16-13 on a 46-yard field goal as time
expired. Against Bear Creek, he had six
catches on offense and 10 tackles on defense.
As a junior, he earned second-team All-Big 8 Conference honors and was
the team's second leading receiver with 41 catches for 605 yards and four
touchdowns. He led the team in receiving
as a sophomore and earned second-team All-Big 8 Conference honors, catching 19
passes for 291 yards and four touchdowns.
Against Pomona his sophomore year, he had three key catches as Chatfield
defeated the second-ranked team in the state.
He also lettered three times in basketball, averaging 4.1 points and 2.8
rebounds as a senior for a 20-5 Chatfield team.
ACADEMICS-He is majoring in Communication at Colorado. He was twice named to Chatfield's Honor Roll
(3.5 or higher GPA for the semester).
PERSONAL-He was born August 31, 1991 in Walnut Creek,
Calif. His hobbies include playing lacrosse,
video games, lifting weights and hanging out with his friends. His family has been CU football season ticket
holders for 20 years and he has been coming to Folsom Field for as long as he
can remember and his parents and grandparents all attended CU. His grandfather, Jack Anderson, played
baseball at CU and was a long-time member of the CU Board of Regents, where he
was a key figure in CU's change to blue uniforms in the early 1980s. His football team volunteered at the Denver
Rescue Mission and served food and he has volunteered though his church,
packaging and shipping food.
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