AT GEORGIA STATE: Two-year letterwinner at inside linebacker, including seven starts in 2010 ... Made 65 career tackles, including 4.5 tackles for loss ... Member of 2010 recruiting class who joined the Georgia State program in January 2010 after playing two seasons at West Los Angeles College in Culver City, Calif.
2011: Played in nine games at linebacker, including starts in two of the final three games ... Made 26 tackles, including two tackles for loss ... Season-high six tackles at Houston and in the season-ending win over Campbell ... Added four hits against South Alabama and West Alabama.
2010: Starting outside linebacker for Georgia State's inaugural team ... Played in nine games, starting seven ... Credited with 39 tackles, including 23 solo hits and 16 assists ... Made 2.5 tackles for loss, plus a pass breakup and a fumble recovery.
Career-high nine tackles, including seven solo hits, versus Lambuth ... Added eight hits (five solo, three assists) against Jacksonville State ... Recovered a fumble in the inaugural game victory over Shorter ... Missed games nine and 10 with a knee injury but returned for the finale at Alabama ... Grabbed an interception in the spring game.
JUNIOR COLLEGE: Earned honorable mention all-conference honors as a freshman, when he collected 89 tackles with 8.5 sacks and four fumble recoveries ... Played in five games as a sophomore with 42 tackles, three blocked field goals, three pass breakups, two fumble recoveries and one forced fumble ... Coached by Marguay Miller,
HIGH SCHOOL: Attended University High School in Los Angeles, where he played for coach E.C. Robinson ... Made first-team all-conference as a senior ... Totalled 115 tackles with nine sacks and three forced fumbles ... Credited with 20 tackles in the first round of the state playoffs.
PERSONAL: Full name is Olufemi Temitope Opanubi, Jr. ... Name pronounced o-la-FEM-ee o-pa-NEW-bee ... Parents are Olufemi Opanubi and Vanessa Hinton ... Born Sept. 11, 1989 ... Plans to major in psychology.
CAREER STATISTICS
|
Year
|
G-GS
|
UA-A
|
Total
|
TFL
|
Sack
|
Int
|
PB
|
FR
|
FF
|
|
2010
|
9-7
|
23-16
|
39
|
2.5-9
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
1-0
|
0
|
|
2011
|
9-2
|
16-10
|
26
|
2-5
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Total
|
18-9
|
39-26
|
65
|
4.5-14
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
1-0
|
0
|
