2025: Started the first 11 games at defensive end, before sustaining an injury against Kansas State.
- All-America (Walter Camp First Team, AP Second Team)
- Voted All-Big 12 First Team by the league’s coaches.
- Named a Chuck Bednarik Award semifinalist and a quarterfinalist for the Lott IMPACT Trophy.
- Season totals included 48 tackles (17.5 TFL, 11.5 sacks) in addition to one PBU and two forced fumbles.
- At the time of his injury, was tied for the FBS lead with 17.5 TFL and ranked second in the country with 11.5 sacks.
- Totaled 91 sack yards, tying for fifth on the Utah single-season leaderboard.
- Contributed a career-best 3.5 TFL and tied a personal-best with 2.0 sacks vs. Kansas State, before exiting in the first quarter due to injury.
- Made strip-sacks at Wyoming and vs. Texas Tech, becoming the first Utah player since 2017 to do so in back-to-back games.
- Set a career-best with seven tackles during the win over West Virginia.
- Turned in a five-tackle night against Arizona State with 2.5 TFL and 1.5 sacks.
2024: Played in seven games.
- Four tackles (1.0 TFL, 1.0 sack).
- Career-high tree stops came in the regular season finale at UCF.
- Made his first collegiate sack in the win over Southern Utah.
Prior to Utah: Played in three games for BYU in 2023, recording three total tackles.
High School: Three-star recruit out of Lone Peak HS, rated the No. 9 recruit in the state of Utah on 247Sports.
- Earned All-State first-team as a senior.
- Had 82 tackles with 22.0 sacks in 14 games his senior season.
- Blocked two punts his senior year, including one in the state semifinals.
- Brother, Michael, is a defensive end at Rice.
- Father, Neal, played linebacker at BYU.
- Uncles are former BYU football players, David Nixon, Craig Bills and Taysom Hill.