2019 Football Roster
Roster
Ikenna Enechukwu
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 253
- Class:
- Redshirt
- Hometown:
- Kansas City., Missouri
- High School:
- Ruskin
Honors at Rice
- Bob Quin Award (2023)
- National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society
- C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- CoSIDA 2021 Academic All-District®
- Rice Scholar-Athlete (2022)
- Rice Honor Athlete (2021)
- All-Conference USA
- 2021 Phil Steele (fourth team) Coaches (honorable mention)
- 2022 Phil Steele (fourth team) Coaches (honorable mention)
2022
- Wuerffel Trophy Watch List
- AFCA Good Works Team Nominee
- Outland Trophy Watch List
- East-West Shrine Bowl selection
- NFL Combine Selection
Highest-graded Owl defender by PFF (74.3) and led the team with 31 total pressures and 21 hurries… Credited with a season-best four hurries at WKU... Second on the team with a career-best 9.5 TFL as a senior and matched his career high with 4.5 sacks... Forced a fumble on a sack vs. Southern Miss in the LendingTree Bowl and later recovered a second fumble to set up the Owls’ tying touchdown in the third quarter... Credited with a sack of Caleb Williams in the opener at USC and added 1.5 sacks vs. McNeese.
2021
Credited with career highs in tackles (48), TFL (8), and sacks (4.5) while starting all 12 games (nine at tackle and three at the end)... Team leader with 20 quarterback hurries according to PFF and second with 32 total pressures and eight quarterback hits... Established a new career-best with 2.5 TFL vs. Southern Miss... Forced his first career fumble vs. Texas Southern on a sack of Andrew Brody.
2020
Started a pair of games and played in all five... Credited with 10 tackles and a pair of hurries... Credited with seven of his 10 tackles in his starts vs. Middle Tennessee and Southern Miss...
2019
A redshirt freshman who played in 11 games (three starts) and was third on the team with 4.5 tackles for loss… Shared a TFL on his first snap of the year (and second of his career) vs. Army… Made his starting debut vs. Baylor and also started in the Owls’ wins over Middle Tennessee and North Texas… Credited with a career-best seven tackles vs. Marshall… Shared a sack vs. Marshall and was credited with a solo sack vs. North Texas for a loss of 11 yards.
2018
A member of Mike Bloomgren's first recruiting class... Named Player of the Week for the defensive scout team for his work before the Southern Miss game... Made his debut at LSU.
Ruskin High School
Named to the Class 5 All-State second team by both the Missouri Football Coaches Association and the media as a senior for Coach William Perkins... Led Ruskin to its first win in the state playoffs since 1991 with a 20-14 win over Raytown, despite suiting up just 19 players for the game... Earned third-team honors as a junior and was a three-year starter for the Golden Eagles... Wrestled as well in high school and was a state qualifier and all-district selection at 220 pounds... Named to the Principal's Honor Roll and also participates in marching band.
Personal
Full name: Ikenna Enechukwu ... Born: January 24 at Kansas City, Missouri... Parents: Kevin and Gladys Enechukwu ... (two brothers, one sister)... Rice degree: Kinesiology... Rice College: Sid Richardson
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