2023 Roster
Roster
Larbie, Michael

Jersey Number 74
Michael Larbie
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 280
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
- High School:
- Sun Valley
Bio
Honors at Rice
2024
Reached career bests in all categories in his final season… Played in all 12 games and made his first two career starts, finishing with a career-best 16 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, 18 total pressures, and 3.5 sacks while playing 443 snaps, nearly doubling his career total entering 2024 (225)… Ranked second on the team with 14 hurries, tied for second with 3.5 sacks, and third with 18 total pressures… Opened the season with a career-high 1.5 sacks vs. Sam Houston and added sacks vs. Houston and Charlotte… Credited with a career-best four total pressures vs. Charlotte and matched that in the season finale vs. South Florida.
2023
Transfer from Duke who played in a career-high 147 snaps and compiled a career-high seven tackles, including his first career sack… Registered his first tackle as an Owl with an assist at Tulsa and followed that with a sack of Tulane’s Michael Pratt for a loss of seven yards the next week… Added a pair of tackles in back-to-back games vs. SMU and at UTSA… Played a career-high 29 snaps vs. SMU.
Duke
Saw action in a career-best seven games in 2022, and was credited with seven tackles, including a shared TFL vs. North Carolina A&T and a shared sack against Kansas… Played 48 snaps on defense, including a career-best 19 vs. NC A&T… Opened the season with 16 snaps vs. Temple and was credited with a quarterback hurry… Credited with four tackles in his first collegiate action in 2021, sharing a tackle in his debut vs. North Carolina A&T in his collegiate debut, adding a second shared stop at Virginia before being credited with a pair of solo tackles at Wake Forest… Did not see action in his first two years with the Blue Devils.
Sun Valley HS
Played at Sun Valley under coach Tad Baucom ... as a junior, named all-county while Sun Valley advanced to the semifinals of the 2017 NCHSAA 3AA Championships and finished with an 11-4 record ... as a senior, recorded seven sacks to earn all-conference, all-count,y and South Charlotte Player of the Week honors.
Personal
Full name: Michael Larbie … Born: January 30… Parents: Isaac Sarpong and Joyce Afriyie… One brother, two sisters... Rice Major; Bioengineering
- AAC All-Academic 2024, 2025
- All-AAC 2024 (CFN, Honorable Mention)
- NFF Hampshire Honor Society
- Rice Honor Athlete 2025
Reached career bests in all categories in his final season… Played in all 12 games and made his first two career starts, finishing with a career-best 16 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, 18 total pressures, and 3.5 sacks while playing 443 snaps, nearly doubling his career total entering 2024 (225)… Ranked second on the team with 14 hurries, tied for second with 3.5 sacks, and third with 18 total pressures… Opened the season with a career-high 1.5 sacks vs. Sam Houston and added sacks vs. Houston and Charlotte… Credited with a career-best four total pressures vs. Charlotte and matched that in the season finale vs. South Florida.
2023
Transfer from Duke who played in a career-high 147 snaps and compiled a career-high seven tackles, including his first career sack… Registered his first tackle as an Owl with an assist at Tulsa and followed that with a sack of Tulane’s Michael Pratt for a loss of seven yards the next week… Added a pair of tackles in back-to-back games vs. SMU and at UTSA… Played a career-high 29 snaps vs. SMU.
Duke
Saw action in a career-best seven games in 2022, and was credited with seven tackles, including a shared TFL vs. North Carolina A&T and a shared sack against Kansas… Played 48 snaps on defense, including a career-best 19 vs. NC A&T… Opened the season with 16 snaps vs. Temple and was credited with a quarterback hurry… Credited with four tackles in his first collegiate action in 2021, sharing a tackle in his debut vs. North Carolina A&T in his collegiate debut, adding a second shared stop at Virginia before being credited with a pair of solo tackles at Wake Forest… Did not see action in his first two years with the Blue Devils.
Sun Valley HS
Played at Sun Valley under coach Tad Baucom ... as a junior, named all-county while Sun Valley advanced to the semifinals of the 2017 NCHSAA 3AA Championships and finished with an 11-4 record ... as a senior, recorded seven sacks to earn all-conference, all-count,y and South Charlotte Player of the Week honors.
Personal
Full name: Michael Larbie … Born: January 30… Parents: Isaac Sarpong and Joyce Afriyie… One brother, two sisters... Rice Major; Bioengineering
Louisiana Postgame
Sunday, August 31
2025 February Signing Day
Thursday, February 06
Scott Abell 2024 December Signing Day
Wednesday, December 04
USF postgame
Sunday, December 01