A four-year player at San Jose State University, it'd be more than fair to call Isaiah Irving a hard worker, a player who grinds, and someone you can count on: a role player.
Irving, in playing for a non-powerhouse football school such as San Jose State, never wholly impressed as a highly-touted dominant edge rusher. Aside from a 2016 senior season where he was an honorable mention on the All-Mountain West team (7 sacks, 11 tackles for loss), he never consistently stuffed the stat sheet or even took over a game either. Instead, he just did his job, which in the grand scheme of things may have meant the most to him and his team at the probable apex of his football career.