2024 Football Roster

Jeffrey Sabo
Jeffrey Sabo
Lexie Cunningham
Brian Mack
Brian Mack

8 Brian Ugwu

  • Position Defensive Line
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 256
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Hillside, N.J.
  • High School Hillside
  • Prev School Rutgers

Biography

2024 Highlights:
  • Played in and started all 14 games
  • First-Team All-MAC
  • Named Miami's Defensive MVP
  • Finished season with 59 tackles, 14.5 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks and 16 quarterback hurries
  • Recorded a tackle for loss in 11 of 14 games
  • Had seven tackles and 1.5 sacks at Eastern Michigan
  • Added five tackles and 1.5 sacks in the win over Ohio
  • Posted six tackles, 2.0 tackles for loss and a sack at Notre Dame

2023 Highlights:
  • Started all 14 games for the RedHawks
  • Second Team All-MAC
  • Finished season with 62 tackles, 12.0 tackles for loss, 8.0 sacks and two forced fumbles
  • Had four tackles, 1.0 sack and a forced fumble versus Toledo in the MAC Championship Game
  • Recorded a career-best 10 tackles and added a sack in the overtime win at Cincinnati
  • Had five tackles and two sacks in a win at Western Michigan
2022 Highlights:
  • Saw action in all 13 games, making for starts
  • Finished season with 43 tackles, 10.0 tackles for loss, 5.0 sacks and an interception
  • Had a season-high seven tackles versus Ohio
  • Recorded five tackles and two sacks in the win over Akron
  • Posted a sack in the season opener at Kentucky
  • Had his first career interception in the win over Ball State.

At Rutgers
  • Played in three career games
  • Academic All-Big Ten in 2020

High School
  • Coached by Barris Grant at Hillside
  • Played linebacker and running back for the Comets
  • Helped Hillside to back-to-back NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II state titles in 2017 and 2018
  • Finished 2018 senior season with 114 tackles and eight sacks along with 1,190 yards rushing and eight touchdowns
  • Hillside closed out 2018 campaign with an 11-1 record, including a 36-10 victory over Manasquan in the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group II final
  • First Team All-Group II and Mid-State 38 by the Star-Ledger 
  • First Team All-New Jersey by USA Today 
  • Totaled 91 tackles with nine sacks along with 1,164 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns as a junior
  • Helped Hillside capture its first NJSIAA state title in 32 years in 2017
  • First Team All-Group II by the Star-Ledgera
  • Pegged the No. 27 overall prospect in New Jersey by 247Sports
  • No. 32 overall recruit in the Garden State by Rivals.

Statistics

Season:
2024

Season Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 8

    2022Junior

    Defensive Line
    6'3" 246 lbs
    8
  • 8

    2023Redshirt Junior

    Defensive Line
    6'3" 250 lbs
    8
  • 8

    2024Redshirt Senior

    Defensive Line
    6'3" 256 lbs
    8