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Career Accolades: 2018 Jerry Rice Award Finalist (FCS Rookie of the Year) ... 2018 Honorable Mention All-Ivy ... Ivy League Rookie of the Week (10/15/18). 

2021: Appeared in nine games … Recorded 30 tackles, 4.0 TFLs and six pass breakups … Had three tackles and two pass breakups at Bucknell (Sept. 18) … Had four tackles, one sack and an interception against Lehigh (Oct. 9) … Made six tackles at Columbia (Oct. 16) … Had a season-high nine tackles against Brown (Oct. 30).

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

2019: Appeared in two games … Registered 14 total tackles … Had seven solo tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss at Delaware (9/21) … Registered two solo tackles at Lafayette (9/28).
 
2018: Named 1 of 25 finalists for Jerry Rice Award presented annually to the Most Outstanding Freshman in FCS football … Honorable mention All-Ivy … Appeared in all 10 games at cornerback with seven starts … Finished season with 37 total tackles … Tied for team lead with three interceptions … Had five pass breakups … Recovered one fumble … Had one tackle for loss against Lehigh (9/22) … Was in one four tackles with one for a loss at Dartmouth (9/29) … Had four solo tackles at Sacred Heart (10/6) … Had six solo tackles as part of an eight-tackle day against Columbia (10/13) … Had game-clinching interception in final minute against Columbia to earn Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors … Had three tackles and a fumble recovery against Yale (10/19) … Had two solo tackles and an interception at Brown (10/27) … Had four solo tackles at Cornell (11/2) … Was in on six tackles with an interception at Princeton (11/17).

Lawrenceville: Three-year letterwinner … Served as team captain … 2017 MAPL Defensive Player of the Year … 2017 first-team All-MAPL … 2017 first-team All-Area … Three-time letterwinner in hockey and lacrosse … 2017 Prep A state champion in lacrosse.
 
Personal: Son of Fatoumata and Amadou Diakite … Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.