2021 Football Roster
Roster
Isaiah Richardson
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 198
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Richmond, Texas
- High School:
- Foster
HONORS
C-USA Honor Roll 2018, 2022
2021
Saw action in all 12 games on special teams as well in the defensive backfield... Credited with four special teams tackles and added four on defense... Credited with a pair of stops at UTSA... Forced his first career fumble at Arkansas in the opener.
2020
Owls most active performer on special teams over the past two years... Credited with one tackle on special teams and added a second on defense.
2019
Saw action in all 12 games on special teams and defense… Credited with 10 tackles, including one for a loss… Three of his tackles came on special teams, two of them on punt coverage… Top tackle effort was three vs. Texas at NRG Stadium.
2018
Redshirted
2017
A true freshman who earned a letter while seeing action in four games… Made his debut vs. FIU and also saw action at Pitt, vs. Army, and vs. LA Tech.
Foster High School
All-District 27-5A for coach Shawn McDowell, teaming with fellow Rice signee Garett Grammer to anchor a Falcons defense that sparked a berth in the 5A-D1 semifinals and 14-1 record... Picked off a pair of passes on the year and finished with seven interceptions in his career... Dave Campbell's Texas Football's preseason Texas Top 300 and 2016 Subway Super Team... Houston Chronicle's Houston 100... Also played basketball for the Falcons... THSCA Academic All-District selection.
Personal
Full name: Isaiah Richardson... Born: August 12 at Aurora, Ill. Parents: Lincoln and Vikki Richardson... ... (one brother, two sisters). Mother ran track at Lamar... Brother, Jamal, played football at Iowa State; sister, Amara, played volleyball at Louisiana-Lafayette ... Rice major: Kinesiology... Rice College: Lovett.
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