Troy University Athletics
2011 Football Roster
Roster
Jonathan Massaquoi
- Position:
- DE
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-2 / 270
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Lawrenceville, GA
- High School:
- Central Gwinnett HS
- Prev School:
- Butler County CC
2010 Game-By-Game Statistics
Selected as the 2011 Preseason Defensive Player of the Year for the Sun Belt Conference coaches ... Was selected to the preseason watch lists for the Lombardi Award, the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award, the Bronko Nagurski Award, the Chuck Bednarik Trophy, the Ted Hendricks Award as well as for the Pony Express Award.
2010: A first team All-Sun Belt Conference selection ... Posted multiple tackles for loss in seven games with a high of 4.0 against North Texas ... Season-high 12 tackles at ULM ... Recorded sacks in seven games ... Had three sacks against both ULM and North Texas ... 1.5 sacks against Middle Tennessee and Florida Atlantic ... Recovered fumbles against Bowling Green, Oklahoma State and Louisiana-Lafayette ... Had a break-up and hurry against BGSU ... Also registered hurries against ULM, WKU and Florida Atlantic ... Had eight tackles at Oklahoma State and North Texas ... Seven stops against Louisiana-Lafayette.
2009: Redshirted.
Prior to Troy: Spent one season at Butler County CC after greyshirting ... Rivals.com ranked him the 60th best Junior College player... Player of the Year candidate as a freshman ... Led the league in sacks with 20 sacks for 102 yards in losses ... Also recorded 17.5 tackles for loss and 96 total tackles as freshman ... Voted Jayhawk Conference Defensive Player of the week for the week of September 27, 2008... Help lead Butler to a NJCAA Championship... All-American honorable mention selection... 2008 first team All-Jayhawk conference pick.
High School: Top defensive prospect of 2007 in Georgia... Registered 87 tackles and nine sacks as senior... As junior, recorded 61 tackles and three sacks... In 2006, named one of the top 60 juniors in the state of Georgia.
Personal: Native of Monrovia Liberia, West Africa... Son of Betsy and Jonthan Massaquoi... Has one brother, Luseni (30) ... Is cousin of current Minnesota Viking Visanthe Shiancoe and Cleveland Brown Mohammed Massaquoi ... Majoring in Social Science.
