2019 Football Roster
Roster
Ky'el Hemby
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 195
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- Hometown:
- Abingdon, Md.
- High School:
- John Carroll HS
- Prev School:
- Iowa Western CC
2020 (RS Senior): Saw action in all 10 games, starting in nine of them…Registered 73 tackles (42 solos), which ranked third best on the squad…Added 2.5 tackles for loss to go along with an interception in the season finale against Florida Atlantic (12/10)…Finished his career with nine interceptions…Added four pass breakups and notched his first career blocked kick, knocking down a field goal against North Alabama (11/7)…Collected a career-high 13 tackles against Tulane (9/26)…Added eight or more stops in five games during the year.
2019 (RS Junior): Played and started in all 13 games … Led the team in tackles with 93 (58 solo) … Finished tied for 16th in the league in stops per game at 7.2 … Posted a tackle for loss and two interceptions to go along with three breakups … Had at least seven tackles in eight different games … Registered double-digit stops in back-to-back outings – 10 vs. UTSA (11/16) and 11 vs. WKU (11/23) … Posted nine stops against Mississippi State (9/7) and six versus Alabama (9/21) … One of 46 players named to the Jim Thorpe preseason Watch List for top defensive back.
2018 (RS Sophomore): Earned second-team All-Conference USA honors, joining teammate Jacques Turner as two of three sophomores to make the 22-player defensive list ... Finished second in the nation for interceptions per game (0.5) and third in total picks (six) ... Became the second Golden Eagle in as many years (Kelsey Douglas, 2017) to record two interceptions in a game, doing so for 52 yards in the finale at UTEP ... Also picked passes against Jackson State, ULM, Marshall and UAB, with the one against the Herd coming for 30 yards and setting up a go-ahead field goal in the third quarter ... Tallied 51 tackles on the year (38 for loss) ... Recorded career-highs of eight stops against Charlotte and UAB and had seven more against North Texas and UTSA.
2017 (RS Freshman - Iowa Western CC): Totaled a team-high 81 tackles ... Also had had 4.5 tackles-for-loss with an interception and three pass breakups.
Prep: Tallied 193 tackles, six interceptions and four fumble recoveries over his final two years at John Carroll High School and named First-Team All-State in Maryland in 2015.
