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Jersey Number 15
Matt Salopek
- Position:
- Linebacker
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 230
- Class:
- Sixth Year
- Hometown:
- Kent, Ohio
- High School:
- Archbishop Hoban
Career:
2024 Highlights:
2023 Highlights:
2022 Highlights:
2021 Highlights:Â
- Played in 59 career games, more than any RedHawk in school history
- First RedHawk in program history to record 100-plus tackles four straight years (2021-24)
- Four-time All-MAC Performer (2024, 1st; 2023, 1st; 2022, 3rd; 2021, 2nd)
- Four-time Academic All-MAC honoree (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- 2023 MAC Defensive Player of the Year
- 2024 All-American (Second-Team, Action Network; Honorable Mention, College Football News; Honorable Mention, Phil Steele)
- Finished his career with 514 tackles, fifth-best in program history
- Added 33.5 tackles for loss, 8.5 sacks, four interceptions, four forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries
2024 Highlights:
- Played in and started all 14 games
- First-Team All-MAC
- Academic All-MAC
- Named Miami's Most Valuable Player of the Year
- Second-Team All-American by the Action Network
- Finished the year with 122 tackles, 8.0 tackles for loss, 1.0 sack and three interceptions
- Opened the year with 10 tackles at Northwestern
- Had 10 tackles and an interception in the win over Ohio
- Recorded a season-high 13 tackles in the win over NIU
- Posted nine tackles and 1.0 sack in the victory over Ball State
2023 Highlights:
- Played in and started all 14 games
- Named MAC Defensive Player of the Year
- Awarded MAC Championship Defensive Player of the Game
- First-team All-MAC
- Finished season with 143 tackles, 8.5 tackles for loss, 3.0 sacks and an interception
- Recorded double-digit tackles in seven contests
- Had a career-high 18 tackles in the win over Cincinnati
- Had nine tackles and a tackle for loss in the MAC Championship win over Toledo
- Posted 14 tackles in a win over Ohio
- Recorded 14 tackles and 2.0 tackles for loss at UMass
- Had nine tackles and an interception in a shutout win over Akron
2022 Highlights:
- Third-Team All-MAC
- Academic All-MAC
- Played in and started all 13 games
- Finished second on the team with 124 tackles and added 9.0 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks and one forced
- fumble
- Recorded double-digit sacks in five different games
- Had a career-high 15 stops and added 1.5 tackles for loss and a forced fumble versus UAB in the
- Bahamas Bowl
- Recorded 14 tackles in the win over Ball State
- Had nine tackles and two sacks in the win over Kent State
- Posted nine tackles and a sack versus Cincinnati
2021 Highlights:Â
- Second Team All-MAC
- Academic All-MAC
- Finished second on the team with 112 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss, one forced fumble and six pass breakups
- Secured at least 10 tackles five different times
- Had a career-high 17 tackles in a win at Ball State
- Recorded 14 tackles in a win over Central Michigan
- Had 12 tackles and a forced fumble in the win over Buffalo
- Played in all three games
- Finished the year with five tackles
- Had two tackles and a sack in a win over Akron
- Redshirted
- Played in three games
- Finished the year with seven tacklesÂ
- Had a season-best three tackles in a win over Bowling Green
- Graduated from Archbishop Hoban High School
- Coached by Tim TyrrellÂ
- Team captain
- Team won four-straight state championships
- Finished his career with 24 interceptions, which ranks fifth all-time in the state of Ohio
- Earned first team all-state as a junior and senior
- Owns the school record for interceptions in a game (4) and season (9)Â
- Majoring in Finance
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