Utah State University Athletics

HONORS: Honorable Mention All-Mountain West (2018). 

2018 (SR): Earned honorable mention all-Mountain West honors after starting all 13 games at safety... Finished the season ranking third on the team with 74 tackles (30-solo, 44-assist), which included 1.0 sacks and 3.0 tackles for loss... Also had five pass breakups, two interceptions and one forced fumble on the season... Recorded his fourth-career double-digit tackle game with a career-high 15 stops against Air Force (9/22), while also recovering his first-career fumble... Intercepted his first-career pass at No. 11 Michigan State (8/31) and returned it 40 yards for his first-career touchdowns... Also intercepted a pass against Tennessee Tech (9/13)... Posted pass breakups in four of his final five games and recorded at least five tackles in seven of his final eight outings.  

2017 (JR): Played in all 13 games, making 12 starts... Finished the season third on the team with 90 tackles (40-solo, 50-assist), which included 1.0 sacks and 2.0 tackles for loss... Ranked 19th in the Mountain West with an average of 6.9 tackles per game... Added one forced fumble and one pass breakup on the season... Had two double-digit tackle outings on the year as he recorded a career-high 13 stops against Colorado State (10/7) and added 10 tackles at Wake Forest (9/16)... Also had 0.5 tackles for loss against the Demon Deacons... Recorded nine tackles against BYU (9/29), and registered eight stops against both New Mexico (11/4) and Hawai’i (11/18) in back-to-back games... Also had his only sack of the season against the Lobos, while his forced fumble was against the Rainbow Warriors... Lone pass breakup on the season came at UNLV (10/21)... Finished the year by recording at least four tackles in 12 of the 13 games he played in and had eight or more stops in five games.

2016 (RS-SO): Played in eight games, making four starts… Finished the season with 40 tackles (22-solo, 18-assist), which included 2.0 tackles for loss, while adding one pass breakup… Recorded 10 tackles, including his first career tackle for loss, in his first career start at Wyoming (11/5)… Also had his only pass breakup of the season against the Cowboys… Had a season-high 11 tackles the following weekend against New Mexico (11/12) and finished the season with eight tackles at BYU (11/26)… Had 1.0 tackles for loss at Nevada (11/19)… Registered five tackles against San Diego State (10/28) and had three stops against both Weber State (9/1) and Nevada. 

2015 (RS): Redshirted during his first season at Utah State.

JUNIOR COLLEGE: Recorded 45 tackles, which included 3.0 tackles for loss, to go along with nine pass breakups and three interceptions as a freshman at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah... Had a season-high nine tackles, including one tackle for loss and a season-high four pass breakups against Glendale CC... Had seven tackles, including 1.5 tackles for loss, to go along with one interception and one pass breakup against Mesa CC... Also had seven tackles against Arizona Western... Other two interceptions were in separate games against Scottsdale CC... Also returned eight punts for 93 yards (11.6 ypr) and two kickoffs for 45 yards (22.5 ypr)... During his freshman season he helped the Badgers to an 8-2 record and a No. 8 national ranking.

HIGH SCHOOL: Earned Utah Class 4A first-team all-state honors from both the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News at linebacker as a prep junior at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum, Utah, as he recorded 51 tackles, which included 4.0 sacks, while adding two interceptions... Also carried the ball 66 times for 334 yards (5.1 ypc) with six touchdowns... Helped the Mustangs to the 4A state championship game in 2010 and 2012... Missed his senior season in 2013 due to injury.

PERSONAL: One of nine children of Jace and Teri Ferguson... Married Abby Benson in July of 2018... Will graduate from Utah State in the spring of 2019 with an economics degree and dual minors in business and sociology.

CAREER STATS

DEFENSE	G/GS	UU-AT-TT	TFL	Sack	INT	PB	FF	FR
2016 (R-So.)	8/4	22-18-40	2.0-3	0.0-0	0-0	1	0	0
2017 (Jr.)	13/12	40-50-90	2.0-10	1.0-8	0-0	1	1	0
2018 (Sr.)	21/16	30-44-74	3.0-6	1.0-5	2-40	5	0	1
TOTAL	34/28	92-112-204	7.0-19	2.0-13	2-40	7	1	1

CAREER HIGHS - Tackles: 15, vs. Air Force (9/22/18); Sacks: 1.0, vs. two opponents; TFL: 1.5, vs. New Mexico (10/27/18); INT: 1, vs. two opponents; FF: 1, vs. Hawai’i (11/18/17); FR: 1, vs. Air Force (9/22/18); PBU: 1, vs. seven opponents; QBH: 2, vs. Tennessee Tech (9/13/18); TD: 1, vs. Michigan State (8/31/18).