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65 Samuel Kessler

65 Samuel Kessler

  • Ht./Wt.:
    6-3 / 315
  • Year:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Lansing, Ill.
  • High School:
    Thornton Fractional South HS

Summary

Biography

Concordia Career:
2018: Named the program's Grizzly Award winner for toughest player ... starting center six times while seeing action in seven games ... helped pave the way for six 200-yard team rushing performances ... part of an offensive line that cleared a path for four different 100-yard rushers ... CSP finished the year ranked fifth in the NSIC with 177.0 rushing yards per game and sixth in the NSIC with 5.73 tackles for loss allowed per game.

2017: Medical redshirt, did not compete due to injury.

2016: Played in 10 games, drawing eight starts with four apiece at left and right guard.

Vermillion Community College:
Named All-MCAC Division ... had 33 pancake blocks for the Ironmen ... helped the Ironmen to a 4-4 record.

Thornton Fractional South High School:
Named NWI Times All-Area First Team and Southtown Star All-Area First Team as a senior ... an All-South Suburban Blue Conference First Team pick as a senior ... helped the Rebels to a Blue Conference championship (7-2) as a senior, completing 96 percent of his blocks with 101 pancakes ... compiled 56 pancakes as a junior ... also competed in wrestling and baseball.

Personal:
Will major in physical education with a minor in health sciences ... aims to be a high school physical education teacher and high school football coach ... his older sister was a two-sport athlete at Calumet College of St. Joseph (2011-15), playing softball and volleyball ... his younger sister plays is a member of the Judson University softball team (2016-present) ... his younger brother competes in the shot put for the Southern Illinois University track & field team (2015-present) ... has an older brother in a family of five siblings.
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Historical Player Information

  • 70

    2016Junior

    OL
    6'3" 310 lbs
    70
  • 65

    2017Senior

    OL
    6'3" 315 lbs
    65
  • 65

    2018Senior

    OL
    6'3" 315 lbs
    65