2023: Earned Academic Honors (Fall 2023) and Academic Distinction (Spring 2024) accoladed on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean’s List following the spring semester … Made an appearance in all 11 games, starting in the final four games of the season including the NCAA playoff game against Charleston (Nov. 18) … Closed out the season with 25 tackles, 10th most on the team, including 10 solo tackles and 15 assisted tackles … Among his 25 tackles were 4.5 tackles for loss for a total of 18 yards, with the 4.5 TFL tied for second most on the team … Included in his 4.5 TFL was two sacks for a total of 14 yards, while he also added one breakup and two quarterback hurries … Finished with at least one tackle in nine of the 11 total games, setting a season-high with seven on the road against Pace (Nov. 4) … Among the seven tackles against the Setters was 1.5 TFL, which included one sack for five yards … His other sack came as his lone TFL, which was part of three total tackles, against Lincoln-Calif. (Oct. 7) … Twice finished with four tackles, both against conference teams, on the road at Bentley (Sep. 9) and at home against Assumption (Oct. 28) … Against the Greyhounds, two of his four tackles were TFL while he also had a QBH against Assumption.
2022: Earned Academic Distinction (Fall 2022) and Academic Honors (Spring 2023) accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean’s List following the fall semester … Made an appearance in four games, collecting a total of seven tackles, 2.5 of which resulted in five yards lost … Set a career-high with four tackles in his second game of the year against Post (Oct. 15), with two of his TFL registered in that game … Added an assisted TFL in the annual battle of the Elm City against Southern Connecticut State University (Nov. 12) … Also added two tackles, both assisted stops in his first game of the year against Pace (Oct. 8) … Added three quarterback hurries, all of which came in the Post game.
2021: Earned Academic Honors accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll following the Spring 2022 semester … Did not see game action during the 2021 season.
High School: Played three years of varsity football for the Falcons of Xavier High School … Also a member of the track and field team where he served as team captain for three seasons … Three times named All-Southern Connecticut Conference and one tabbed All-State all for track and field where he threw the shotput and discus.
Personal: Son of Lisa McDermott and Anthony Colon … Had two brothers, Greyson and Damian and one sister, Dasani … Also a member of the track and field team … Received a Bachelor of Science in international business in May 2024 … Currently pursuing a Master of Science in sport management.
