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Career Accolades: 2019 Second Team All-Ivy … Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on 11/4/19 … Stats FCS National Defensive Player of the Week Honorable Mention on 9/30/19 … Stats FCS National Defensive Player of the Week Honorable Mention on 11/4/19 … 2021 First Team All-Ivy.

2021: Started all 10 games at linebacker … First Team All-Ivy … Finished the season with 59 tackles, 4.5 TFLs, one interception, one fumble recovery, three quarterback hurries and one pass breakup … Tied for the team lead in tackles … Ranked sixth in the Ivy League in total tackles … Was ninth in the Ivy League in tackles per game ... Had two games with 10 or more tackles … Had nine tackles including 1.0 TFLs against Lafayette (Sept. 25) … Had 10 tackles including 1.0 TFLs versus Dartmouth (Oct. 1) … Recorded seven tackles and one interception at Yale (Oct. 23) … Had a season-high 12 tackles and a fumble recovery versus Brown (Oct. 30) … Registered six tackles against Princeton (Nov. 20).

2020: All 2020 Ivy League fall sports were canceled on July 8 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.

2019: Second Team All-Ivy … Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week on 11/4 … Stats FCS National Defensive Player of the Week Honorable Mention on 9/30/19 … Stats FCS National Defensive Player of the Week Honorable Mention on 11/4/19 … Started all 10 games at linebacker … Had a team-leading three INTs … Finished with 58 tackles, including 12.5 TFLs … Recorded four sacks and recovered one fumble … Ranked fifth in the Ivy League in TFLs and second in INTs … Had five tackles, including 1.0 TFLs at Delaware (9/21) … Registered nine tackles, including 2.0 sacks and 5.0 TFLs at Lafayette (9/28) … Had five tackles, including 1.0 TFLs, to go along with an INT at Columbia (10/19) … Recorded six solo stops, 2.0 sacks, returned a fumble recovery for a touchdown and had two INTs against Brown (11/02).
 
2018: Started all 10 games at linebacker … Third on the team with 57 tackles … Second on team with 9.0 tackles for loss … Registered 2.5 sacks … Had two pass breakups … Had 11 total tackles, including eight solo stops, against Bucknell (9/15) … Finished with 2.0 TFLs and a sack against the Bison … Had four tackles, including a sack, against Lehigh (9/22) … Was in on 10 tackles with two for a loss at Sacred Heart (10/6) … Had two tackles and a pass breakup against Columbia (10/13) … Had two tackles, including one for a loss, at Brown (10/27) … Was in on eight tackles with two for a loss at Cornell (11/2) … Had six tackles, including five solo stops, against Harvard (11/10) … Made 10 tackles at Princeton (11/17).

2017: Appeared in all 10 games … Made one start … Finished with 26 tackles and three pass breakups… Had three solo stops at Columbia (10/14) … Had an interception at Columbia … Made three tackles against Yale (10/21) … Had 10 total tackles, including five solo stops, at Brown (10/28) … Had three solo tackles against Princeton (11/4) … Made four tackles and added a pass breakup at Harvard (11/11).

High School: Three-year letterwinner … Served as team captain senior season … Played on 2016 Division championship team … 2016 unanimous first-team All-Conference … 2015 unanimous first-team All-Conference … Lettered four times in track and field … Served as team captain … Member of two Group 2 championship track teams … 2016 County champion in javelin … Four-time first-team All-Conference in javelin … Lettered twice in basketball … Shoprite Star award recipient … Football Scholar-Athlete Award recipient … Debate Club member … Conservative Club member.

Personal: Son of Marilyn and Thomas O’Neill … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.