Back in 1996 true freshman Andy Katzenmoyer racked up 85 tackles.
He also set two school records that season on a defense teeming with NFL talent, with an astonishing 23 tackles for loss and a dozen sacks from the linebacker position. As first years go, that one is hard to top.
Almost two decades later Curtis Grant entered his senior season having compiled in three years a fraction of what Katzenmoyer accumulated in just his first few months on campus: 62 career tackles, 5 TFLs and 2.5 sacks.
Katzenmoyer was the top defensive prospect of 1996 while only Jadeveon Clowney was ranked higher than Grant coming out of high school in 2011.