ATHLETIC HONORS & AWARDS
- First Team All-Centennial Conference (2024)
- Second Team All-Centennial Conference (2023)
ACADEMIC HONORS & AWARDS
- National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society (2025)
- CSC Academic All-District (2024)
- Academic All-Centennial Conference (2024)
- Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll (2023, 2024) |
Career Summary
- Played in 43 games, including 25 of 27 over his final two seasons.
- Posted 200 tackles, including 12.5 for losses and 2.0 sacks, and added three interceptions, six pass breakups and one forced fumble to his credit.
 2024
- Finished second on the team in tackles with 90 despite missing games against Salisbury and McDaniel.
- In addition to his 90 tackles, counted 8.0 TFLs, one sack, four PBUs and one forced fumble to his credit.
- Posted eight tackles at Ithaca and added six in the 14-3 win at Christopher Newport.
- Had a season-high 10 tackles in a 20-13 win over Rowan.
- Recorded the 125th tackle of his career in the win over Rowan.
- Posted six tackles in a 13-6 win at F&M and came back with six tackles and a forced fumble in a 16-7 win at previously unbeaten Ursinus. His forced fumble killed a UC scoring threat inside the Blue Jay five-yard line.
- Sparked 26-13 win over Muhlenberg with nine tackles and one pass breakup.
- Posted eight tackles, including 1.5 TFLs, in a 30-0 victory against Dickinson.
- Posted a team-high nine tackles with 3.0 tackles for loss and half a sack in a 14-9 win at DePauw in the third round of the NCAA Playoffs. The 3.0 TFLs are a career high.
- Tied for the team lead with seven tackles and added a pass breakup in a 17-10 win over Mary Hardin-Baylor in the NCAA Quarterfinals.
- Capped career with 11 tackles, including 1.5 TFLs, in a 45-37 loss at Mount Union in the NCAA Semifinals. Final tackle of the game was the 200th of his career.
2023
- Second Team All-Centennial Conference selection.
- Played in and started all 13 games at linebacker.
- Finished second on the team in tackles with 78 and added three tackles for loss, one sack, three interceptions and two pass breakups.
- Tied for the team lead with his three interceptions.
- Had career-high 13 tackles in a 27-7 season-opening win against Ithaca.
- Posted seven tackles in a 34-28 win at 16
th-ranked and previously unbeaten Muhlenberg.
- Notched 11 tackles and one interception in a 39-36 loss to Randolph-Macon in the NCAA Quarterfinals. Interception came in the third quarter and led to a touchdown that gave the Blue Jays a 22-21 lead.
- Collected five or more tackles in eight of Johns Hopkins’ 13 games on the season.
2022
- Played in eight games and had 17 tackles, including 1.5 for loss, on the year.
- Posted a season-high five tackles in a 60-7 win over Gettysburg.
- Had four tackles against Moravian and added three in wins against Case Western and McDaniel.
2021
- Saw action in 10 games as a reserve linebacker and special teams standout.
- Posted at least one tackle in eight of the 10 games he played.
- Ranked second on the team among freshmen with 15 tackles on the year.
- Finished fourth on the team with six special teams tackles.
- Registered season-best three tackles in wins against Stevenson, Juniata and Dickinson.
At Lafayette
- Four-year member of varsity football team.
- Second Team Louisiana All-State, First Team All-District and First Team All-Acadiana as a senior after posting 50 tackles, six tackles for losses, three interceptions and two forced fumbles while scoring a pair of defensive touchdowns.
- Grabbed Second Team All-District honors as a junior, when he had 86 tackles, 10 TFLs, three interceptions and three forced fumbles and scored three defensive touchdowns.
- Second Team All-District as a sophomore after 57-tackle season.
- Leader of a team that steadily improved throughout his career. Team went 0-10 his freshman year and 6-2 with a trip to the second round of the playoffs in his final year.
Personal
- Oliver Craddock.
- The son of Robin Sylvester.
- Youngest of three brothers with older brothers Everett and Beau.
- Older cousin, Nick Russell, is a pole vaulter at Louisiana-Lafayette.
- Majoring in economics and international studies.
