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2015 Football

49 Tyler Drake

  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 215
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool St. Thomas Aquianas

Biography

Career Accolades: 2012 and 2015 Ivy League champion ... 2015 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year ... 2015 unanimous first-team All-Ivy ... Finalist for STATS FCS National Defensive Player of the Year ... 2015 third-team STATS FCS All-American ... 2015 third-team AP FCS All-American ... 2015 College Football Performance Awards Linebacker Award Watch List ... 2015 ECAC All-Star ... 2015 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week (10/26) ... 2015 USA College Football Preseason All-American ... 2014 honorable mention All-Ivy ... Will graduate with 17.5 sacks, fifth-most in program history.

2015: Team tri-captain ... Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year … First-team All-Ivy … ECAC All-Star … One of 25 finalists for the STATS FCS National Defensive Player of the Year Award … Played in all 10 games … Finished with 80 tackles (45 solo), 12.5 tackles for loss, four forced fumbles, two interceptions, and one fumble recovery … Led the Ivy League in sacks with 8.5 … Had seven tackles at Lehigh (9/19) … Finished with five tackles, two TFLs, one sack and two forced fumbles at Villanova (9/24) … Recorded 15 tackles against Dartmouth (10/3) … Went for 12 tackles and four sacks against Fordham (10/10) … Recorded five tackles and a half-sack at Columbia (10/17) … Finished with six tackles, one sack and one forced fumble against Yale (10/23) … Had three tackles and one fumble recovery at Brown (10/31) … Put together eight tackles, three TFLs, one sack and one forced fumble against Princeton (11/7) … Recorded 12 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss and one sack at Harvard (11/14) … Finished with seven tackles and 0.5 TFL against Cornell (11/21).

2014: Honorable mention All-Ivy ... Started all 10 games ... Led team and finished second in the Ivy League with 6.0 sacks ... Second on the team and sixth in the Ivies with 8.5 tackles for loss ... Tied for team lead and finished second in the Ivies with two forced fumbles ... Also second on the team with 58 tackles (33 solo) ... Had multiple tackles in every game ... Season-best eight tackles on four occasions ... Season-best two sacks against Brown (Nov. 1) and in win at Cornell (Nov. 22) ... Eight tackles and a forced fumble at Jacksonville (Sept. 20) ... Eight tackles and a fumble recovery against No. 6 Villanova (Sept. 27) ... Eight tackles and a sack at Princeton (Nov. 8) ... Also had seven tackles and a forced fumble against the Big Red.

2013: Played in all 10 games ... Finished with 11 tackles (8 solo) and 3.0 tackles for loss ... Tied for fourth on the team with 3.0 sacks .... Had at least one tackle in seven games and a season-high two tackles four times ... Recorded two tackles and a sack in win over Dartmouth (Oct. 5) ... Also had a sack at William & Mary (Oct. 12) and at Harvard (Nov. 16). 

2012: Played in two games for the Ivy League champions ... Starred mostly on special teams ... Had a tackle against Villanova (Sept. 22) ... Also saw time in win over Columbia (Oct. 13).

St. Thomas Aquinas HS: Two-year letterwinner ... Served as team captain as a senior ... Two-time all-county ... 2010 state and national champions with a perfect record of 15-0 ... Also lettered in track & field and soccer ... Member of the track & field state championship team in 2009.

Personal: Son of Jennifer and Gary Drake ... Brother, Dylan, played football at Yale ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.


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Historical Player Information

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    2012Freshman

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    2013Sophomore

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    2014Junior

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    2015Senior

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