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Jersey Number 45
Mehdi Abdesmad
- Height:
- 6-7
- Weight:
- 278
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Montreal, Quebec
- High School:
- Cegep du Vieux-Montreal
Bio
ABDESMAD’S CAREER HIGHS
NOTES: Two-year starting defensive lineman who returned from injury to start every game of his senior season … earned the team’s Coaches Award after senior campaign.
2015 (SENIOR): Returned after missing the majority of two seasons with a knee injury to play all 12 games and start nine … voted All-Atlantic Coast Conference honorable mention by the league’s head coaches … earned the team’s Coaches Award … member of the No. 1 defense in the nation … fourth on the team with 13 tackles for a loss of 52 yards … third on the team with 4.5 sacks for a loss of 31 yards … named ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week for play against Maine (Sept. 5), tallying a career-high 1.5 sacks for a loss of nine yards, a career-high 2.5 tackles for a loss of 14 yards and finishing the day with four tackles, including three unassisted … totaled a career-high eight tackles, including 2.5 tackles for a loss of 11 yards against Wake Forest (Oct. 10) … recorded four tackles, including two for a loss of 10 yards and a sack at No. 5/6 Clemson (Oct. 17) … totaled six tackles, including two for a loss of five yards and two quarterback hurries at Louisville (Oct. 24) … tied a career high with 2.5 tackles for a loss, including a sack, against NC State (Nov. 7) … registered five tackles, including three solo, vs. Notre Dame (Nov. 21) … Tallied six solo stops, including two for a loss, and one sack in season finale at Syracuse (Nov. 28) ... earned the Athletics Director's Award for Academic Achievement.
2014 (REDSHIRT JUNIOR): Saw action in three games, starting the first two, before suffering a season-ending knee injury … tallied three tackles (one solo) against Pittsburgh (Sept. 5) … made one solo tackle against Colorado State (Sept. 27).
2013 (JUNIOR): Started the first four games of the season at left tackle … missed the final nine games of the season because of left knee injury suffered against Florida State (Sept. 28) …received a medical redshirt ... registered 17 tackles, including nine solo tackles and 3.5 tackles for loss … registered two sacks … notched a career-high seven tackles, including one sack for a loss of eight yards, at Southern California (Sept. 14) … tallied three tackles, including one sack for a loss of two yards, against the Seminoles before sustaining the injury.
2012 (SOPHOMORE): Played in 11 games, making eight starts … played on 635 snaps between defense and special teams; saw time on 60 or more plays in each of five games … made 25 tackles, 10 solo, on the year … compiled a season-high six tackles while contesting a season-high 91 plays at Army (Oct. 6) … recorded three tackles (one for loss) and first-career forced fumble against Virginia Tech (Nov. 17) … totaled two tackles and first-career fumble recovery against Maine (Sept. 8) … broke up a pass against Miami (Sept. 1) … registered a tackle for loss against Maryland (Oct. 27) and at NC State (Nov. 24).
2011 (Freshman): Played in eight games; missed the final three games of season … participated in 76 plays … listed second on the depth chart as defensive end in first two games, before moving to top of list against Duke (Sept. 17) … recorded one solo tackle at Maryland (Oct. 29) … registered two tackles against Northwestern (Sept. 3), the first game of his collegiate career.
HIGH SCHOOL: Earned 2010 Collégial AAA (league) Defensive MVP honors as a defensive end at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal; also gained league all-star accolades … registered 58 tackles – 45 solos and 13 assisted – in 2010; also totaled 18 tackles for loss, including a league-record 15 sacks … led the Spartiates to the 2009 provincial championship and the 2010 championship game … played for head coach Cherif Nicolas …played in USA Football’s 2010 Team USA vs. The World Game in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. … helped Canada to a silver medal at the 2009 IFAF Junior World Cup in Canton, Ohio, earning all-star accolades.
PERSONAL: Mehdi Abdesmad ... graduated with a finance degree from the Carroll School of Management … enrolled in the Woods School of Advancing Studies ... recipient of the Robert S. Boova ’73 Family Scholarship Fund… Mehdi and his two older sisters are the children of Sihame and the late Montacer Abdesmad.
- Tackles: 8 vs. Wake Forest, Oct. 10, 2015
- Sacks: 1.5 vs. Maine, Sept. 5, 2015
- Tackles for loss: 2.5, vs. Maine, Sept. 5, 2015; vs. Wake Forest, Oct. 10, 2015
- Fumbles forced: 1 vs. Virginia Tech, Nov 17, 2012
- Fumbles recovered: 1vs. Maine, Sept. 8, 2012
- Pass breakups: 1 vs. Miami, Sept. 1, 2012
NOTES: Two-year starting defensive lineman who returned from injury to start every game of his senior season … earned the team’s Coaches Award after senior campaign.
2015 (SENIOR): Returned after missing the majority of two seasons with a knee injury to play all 12 games and start nine … voted All-Atlantic Coast Conference honorable mention by the league’s head coaches … earned the team’s Coaches Award … member of the No. 1 defense in the nation … fourth on the team with 13 tackles for a loss of 52 yards … third on the team with 4.5 sacks for a loss of 31 yards … named ACC Defensive Lineman of the Week for play against Maine (Sept. 5), tallying a career-high 1.5 sacks for a loss of nine yards, a career-high 2.5 tackles for a loss of 14 yards and finishing the day with four tackles, including three unassisted … totaled a career-high eight tackles, including 2.5 tackles for a loss of 11 yards against Wake Forest (Oct. 10) … recorded four tackles, including two for a loss of 10 yards and a sack at No. 5/6 Clemson (Oct. 17) … totaled six tackles, including two for a loss of five yards and two quarterback hurries at Louisville (Oct. 24) … tied a career high with 2.5 tackles for a loss, including a sack, against NC State (Nov. 7) … registered five tackles, including three solo, vs. Notre Dame (Nov. 21) … Tallied six solo stops, including two for a loss, and one sack in season finale at Syracuse (Nov. 28) ... earned the Athletics Director's Award for Academic Achievement.
2014 (REDSHIRT JUNIOR): Saw action in three games, starting the first two, before suffering a season-ending knee injury … tallied three tackles (one solo) against Pittsburgh (Sept. 5) … made one solo tackle against Colorado State (Sept. 27).
2013 (JUNIOR): Started the first four games of the season at left tackle … missed the final nine games of the season because of left knee injury suffered against Florida State (Sept. 28) …received a medical redshirt ... registered 17 tackles, including nine solo tackles and 3.5 tackles for loss … registered two sacks … notched a career-high seven tackles, including one sack for a loss of eight yards, at Southern California (Sept. 14) … tallied three tackles, including one sack for a loss of two yards, against the Seminoles before sustaining the injury.
2012 (SOPHOMORE): Played in 11 games, making eight starts … played on 635 snaps between defense and special teams; saw time on 60 or more plays in each of five games … made 25 tackles, 10 solo, on the year … compiled a season-high six tackles while contesting a season-high 91 plays at Army (Oct. 6) … recorded three tackles (one for loss) and first-career forced fumble against Virginia Tech (Nov. 17) … totaled two tackles and first-career fumble recovery against Maine (Sept. 8) … broke up a pass against Miami (Sept. 1) … registered a tackle for loss against Maryland (Oct. 27) and at NC State (Nov. 24).
2011 (Freshman): Played in eight games; missed the final three games of season … participated in 76 plays … listed second on the depth chart as defensive end in first two games, before moving to top of list against Duke (Sept. 17) … recorded one solo tackle at Maryland (Oct. 29) … registered two tackles against Northwestern (Sept. 3), the first game of his collegiate career.
HIGH SCHOOL: Earned 2010 Collégial AAA (league) Defensive MVP honors as a defensive end at Cégep du Vieux-Montréal; also gained league all-star accolades … registered 58 tackles – 45 solos and 13 assisted – in 2010; also totaled 18 tackles for loss, including a league-record 15 sacks … led the Spartiates to the 2009 provincial championship and the 2010 championship game … played for head coach Cherif Nicolas …played in USA Football’s 2010 Team USA vs. The World Game in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. … helped Canada to a silver medal at the 2009 IFAF Junior World Cup in Canton, Ohio, earning all-star accolades.
PERSONAL: Mehdi Abdesmad ... graduated with a finance degree from the Carroll School of Management … enrolled in the Woods School of Advancing Studies ... recipient of the Robert S. Boova ’73 Family Scholarship Fund… Mehdi and his two older sisters are the children of Sihame and the late Montacer Abdesmad.
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