Javon Solomon

2023 All-Sun Belt First Team
2022 All-Sun Belt Third Team
2021 All-Sun Belt First Team
2021 All-America Honorable Mention (Pro Football Network)
2020 All-Sun Belt Honorable Mention

2023 (Junior): Named to the All-Sun Belt First Team after leading all of FBS with 16 sacks and ranking ninth with 18 tackles for loss … Set the Sun Belt single-season sack record and the Troy FBS sack record; it was the most sacks by a Trojan since Kenny Craik's single-season record of 20 in 1980 – the most in the last two decades at Troy was NFL legend Osi Umenyiora's 15 in 2002 … Finished career second all-time in Sun Belt and Troy history with 33 career sacks, while ranking third in program history in tackles for loss … One of two players at the FBS ranks to record at least a half sack in 10 games … Recorded four of Troy's nine sacks at ULM, tying Osi Umenyiora (2002) for the Troy single-game record; named the Co-Senior Bowl Defensive Players of the Week with teammate Richard Jibunor … Finished career with six multi-sack games, the most in Troy's DI history and 38th most at the FBS level since 2000 … Finished season with 48 total pressures, nine more than anyone else on Troy's team and 23rd nationally among edge defenders despite playing just 592 snaps … Ranked sixth among edge defenders per PFF with a 90.8 defensive grade … Recorded 11 sacks in Troy's final five games of the season ... Forced two fumbles in Troy's Sun Belt Championship Game victory over App State

2022 (Sophomore): Named to the All-Sun Belt Third Team … Finished the season with 7.5 tackles for loss, 4.5 sacks, six quarterback hurries and 44 tackles … One of just 20 edge defenders in the Sun Belt to play 500-plus snaps; finished the year with 575 total snaps … Ranked third among those 20 players per Pro Football Focus in pressuring the quarterback … Recorded a tackle for loss in three of Troy's final four games of the season … Had a season-high two stops behind the line, including a sack, in Troy's win at Western Kentucky … Three quarterback hurries in the Trojans' Sun Belt Championship Game victory over Coastal Carolina

2021 (RS-Freshman): One of the nation’s premier defensive players … Earned Pro Football Network All-America honors and All-Sun Belt First Team distinction … Led the Sun Belt in tackles for loss (1.42 per game) and ranked 12th nationally in 2021 … Eighth nationally with 0.92 sacks per game … Became one of just 31 players nationally since 2000 to record 17 tackles for loss and 11 sacks through the first 10 games of a season; one of just nine from a Group of Five school to do so and the only Sun Belt player … Became just the third FBS player since at least 2000 to record 12 tackles for loss, 7.5 sacks and one interception in the first six games of the season -- Carl Nassib (Penn State, 2015), Elvis Dumervil (Louisville, 2005) … 11 sacks were the most by a Trojan since Jonathan Massaquoi’s 13 in 2010 … Set Troy single-game record with five tackles for loss in victory at Southern Miss and added the second-most sacks in a game with 3.5; sack total was 10th best in Sun Belt history, and TFL total was a half off the league record … Became the fifth player nationally since 2017 to record at least nine tackles, five tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks in a game; first player in Sun Belt history to do so … Tied for third nationally with three games where he recorded at least 2.5 tackles for loss … Added 3.5 stops behind the line at ULM and 2.5 against South Alabama … Had a TFL in 9-of-12 games and a sack in 7-of-12 games … Recovered fumbles at ULM and Georgia State and intercepted a pass against Georgia Southern to preserve the victory … Credited with 37 total pressures including a team-high 10-high 10 hits on the quarterback 

2020 (RS-Freshman): Named to the All-Sun Belt Team as an honorable mention selection … Ranked 10th in the Sun Belt with 25 total pressures despite splitting snaps – only played 217 pass rushing snaps on the season … Per Pro Football Focus, recorded six hits, 16 hurries and three sacks … Officially credited with 1.5 sacks and 6.0 tackles for loss on the year … Finished with three tackles and a half sack in Troy’s shutout of South Alabama in the Battle for the Belt … Started the season strong with 5.5 tackles for loss in the first five games … Forced a fumble in Troy’s season-opening victory over Middle Tennessee and against Georgia State

2019 (Freshman): Played in three games … Redshirted … Recorded four total tackles on the season with a pair of stops and a tackle for loss at Missouri; added solo tackles against Campbell and Arkansas State

High School: Helped lead Godby High School to a combined 21-3 record and a pair of Florida 5A Playoff appearances as a junior and senior … Earned All-Big Bend honors after recording 73 tackles, 16.5 tackles for loss, 10 sacks and three blocked kicks as a senior … Earned team MVP honors … As a junior, earned second team All-Big Bend honors with 23 tackles, 13 tackles for loss and six sacks … Also wrestled for the Cougars

Personal: Full name is Javon Pyree Solomon … Son of Maronica Flagler … Born Jan. 17, 2001, in Tallahassee, Fla. … Has one brother, Rajay Solomon, and one sister, Mariah Vincent ... Earned his degree in criminal justice