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2024: Started all 10 games he appeared in at starting SAM linebacker. … Led team in total tackles (71) and had 39 solo stops … Finished the year with 5.0 TFLs for a loss of 17 yards and one sack … Recorded a pair of pass breakups and a hurry … Best performance of the year came at Dartmouth (10/5), registering a team-high 15 total tackles (with eight solos) along with a TFL and a PBU … Seven of his eight total tackles were solo stops just a week later vs. Bucknell (10/12) … Had a piece of a TFL in three straight games vs. Columbia (10/19), Yale (10/25) and at Brown (11/2) … Recorded a TFL in two straight games to end the season, one vs. Harvard (11/16) and another at Princeton (11/23) where he had his first sack and totaled 10 tackles.

2023: Emerged onto the scene as a key contributor for the Quakers, making a start in the season’s final seven games at SAM linebacker … Concluded year with 56 total tackles, ranked third on the team and 25 solo stops. Also finished with 6.5 TFLs, tied for third on the team and had four QB hurries, tied for second … Recorded six tackles in season-opening contest at Colgate (9/16) … Notched first career TFL vs. Dartmouth (9/30), finishing with 1.5 TFLs, five total tackles and a pass breakup … Season-high eight total tackles twice—at Columbia (10/14) and vs. Cornell (11/4)—with a season-high two TFLs at Yale (10/21) … Had two quarterback hurries in season finale vs. Princeton (11/18).

2022: Saw action in five games, making six total tackles … Had a season-high two stops at Georgetown (10/8).

High School: Team Captain … Four-year varsity letter … Two-time WCAC Champions … First Team All-WCAC … Washington Post All-Met … Maplewood Athletic Association High School Player of the Year … Team MVP … Also wrestled, winning DC State Championship … National Honor Society … Poets and Writers Club … Gonzaga Poetry Prize winner … Barnes Award winner … First Honor Roll.
 
Personal: Son of Ayana and Ronald Machen … Father played football at Stanford … Brother, Bijan, played football at Georgia Tech from 2008-12 … Brother, Jelani, plays football at Harvard … Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business.