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2022 Football Roster

Profile

  • DE
    Position
  • Junior
    Class
  • Homestead, Florida
    Hometown
  • 6'3
    Height
  • 245
    Weight
  • South Dade HS/Miami
    High School
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Pat Joyner Jr.
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Patrick Joyner Jr.
DE
Position
Junior
Class
Homestead, Florida
Hometown

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Biography

2022 (JUNIOR SEASON)
Played in 13 games, making four starts… Finished the season with 31 tackles (13-solo, 18-assist), which included 1.0 sacks and 3.0 tackles for loss, to go along with two quarterback hurries and one pass breakup… Tied his career high with four tackles against UNLV (9/24), Wyoming (10/22) and Memphis (12/27) in the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl… Lone sack of the season was against New Mexico (11/5) and his lone pass breakup was at Wyoming… Added 0.5 tackles for loss against UConn (8/27), Weber State (9/10), Air Force (10/8) and Memphis… Recorded multiple tackles in nine games and had a six-game stretch in the middle of the year where he had three tackles in four games and four tackles in the other two.

2021 (SOPHOMORE SEASON)
Played in all 14 games, making eight starts… Finished the season with 29 tackles (18-solo, 11-assist), which included 3.5 sacks and 7.5 tackles for loss, to go along with one pass breakup and a safety… Had three tackles, including 1.0 sacks and a career-best 2.0 tackles for loss, and a safety at Washington State (9/4) in the season opener… Had a career-high four tackles at Air Force (9/18)… Had 1.5 tackles for loss as part of his career-high-tying four stops against Boise State (9/25)… Recorded a career-best 1.5 sacks at New Mexico State (11/6)… Had three tackles, to go along with his first-career pass breakup, at New Mexico (11/26)… Had two tackles, including 0.5 tackles for loss, at No. 19 San Diego State (12/4) in the Mountain West Championship Game.

PREVIOUS SCHOOL
Spent three seasons at Miami (2018-20), as he played in nine games... Appeared in four games in 2020 for the Hurricanes and had one tackle... Played in one game during the 2019 season due to injury... Redshirted in 2018, as he played in four games and had five tackles, which included 2.5 tackles for loss... Had a career-high three tackles, including a career-best 2.0 tackles for loss, against Savannah State. 

HIGH SCHOOL 
Four-star prospect by ESPN.com and earned a three-star rating from 247Sports.com and Rivals.com… Rated as the 23rd-best prospect at his position by ESPN.com and No. 38 at his position by 247Sports.com… Selected to the 2017 Miami Herald All-Dade First Team… Helped guide South Dade High School in Homestead, Florida, to the Class 8A Regional Playoffs and a 9-2 record during his senior year, as he registered 87 total tackles and forced a pair of fumbles… Was named to the 2016 Miami Herald All-Dade First Team as a junior while playing for Keys Gate HS… Logged 63 tackles and registered 15 sacks during junior season. 

PERSONAL 
Son of Patrick Joyner Sr. and Jamela Riggins… Graduated from Utah State in the fall of 2022 with an interdisciplinary studies degree.

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