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

2022

defensive
TFL	QB HUR	TOT	TD	PD	SACKS	SOLO
7.5	2.0	42.0	0.0	0.0	4.5	18.0

2021

fumbles
REC	LOST	FUM
4.0	0.0	0.0

defensive
TFL	QB HUR	TOT	TD	PD	SACKS	SOLO
17.0	5.0	50.0	0.0	1.0	11.0	25.0

interceptions
TD	AVG	YDS	INT
0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0

2020

defensive
TFL	QB HUR	TOT	TD	PD	SACKS	SOLO
6.0	2.0	29.0	0.0	1.0	1.5	13.0

2019

defensive
TFL	QB HUR	TOT	TD	PD	SACKS	SOLO
1.0	0.0	4.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.0