2021 Football Roster
Roster
Swayze Bozeman
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 224
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Flora, Miss.
- High School:
- Tri-County Academy
- Prev School:
- Copiah-Lincoln CC
2022 (RS Sr.): Named preseason Sun Belt by Phil Steele Magazine with a fourth-team nod … Named to preseason Weurffel Trophy watch list ... Played in first four games of the season, making two starts, before being lost to injury against Tulane (9/24) … Registered 15 tackles through four games, including five solos, three for loss and two sacks … Season-best eight tackles (one solo) against Northwestern State (9/17) … Tacked on 1.5 tackles for loss and one sack against both Miami (9/10) and Northwestern State (9/17) … Also against Northwestern State, recovered one fumble for a 12-yard scoop-and-score, the first touchdown of his career.
2021 (Sr.): Played in four games with three starts, but earned redshirt due to injury … Did make 20 tackles in his limited play, including nine versus North Texas (11/6) in his final game of the year … Added four versus UTEP (10/9) and UAB (10/16) and three versus Rice (10/2) … His first appearance was the fifth game of the year because of that injury but he only played in four of the next five games before missing the final three contests … Named to the Conference USA All-Academic Team … Earned the Golden Standard at the Talon Awards, a Southern Miss student-run event, as the best representative for his respective sport … Earned a C-USA Academic Medal and was a member the league’s Commissioner’s Honor Roll … Named to the President’s List for the Fall 2021 semester.
2020 (Sr.): Started and played in six games ... Missed four contests due to injury ... Registered 42 tackles (13 solo) with a half tackle for loss and a pass breakup ... Tallied season-high 10 stops against South Alabama (9/3) and added nine each against Louisiana Tech (9/19) and UTSA (11/21) ... Finished sixth in the tackle column on the squad despite missing four games ... Named to Conference USA All-Academic Team ... Made the President’s List each semester that he has been at Southern Miss ... Named to Wuerffel preseason watch list ... Won the C-USA Spirit of Service Award for the fall.
2019 (Jr.): Played in all 13 games and made eight starts, collecting 57 tackles, including 31 solos ... Posted 6.0 tackles for loss and 4.5 sacks, while registering two fumble recoveries ... Recorded season-high 10 stops at UTSA (11/16), while notching eight versus both Louisiana Tech (10/19) and Rice (10/26) ... Enjoyed solid bowl game against Tulane with eight tackles (four solo), a half sack and a forced fumble ... Averaged 6.4 tackles per contest over the final seven games.
Junior College: Collected the Google Cloud Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year for College Division men’s at-large...Spent the two previous seasons at Copiah-Lincoln Community College ... Played a total of 19 games for the Wolves and registered 133 tackles ... Had 86 tackles that were solo tackles and 47 were assisted tackles ... Averaged 7.0 tackles per game, recorded one sack, 8.5 tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, one fumble recovery, and five broken up passes ... His 91 total tackles during his sophomore campaign marked a team best for the 2018 season ... Capped off his JUCO career by earning NJCAA All-Region XXIII and All-MACJC First Team honors.
High School: Starred at Tri-County Academy ... Led Tri-County Academy to two MAIS AA football state championship appearances (2016 and 2015) ... Was a two-way player for the Rebels, playing both defense and running back ... One of five players to be named to the MAIS Football Fab 5 Underclassmen list in 2015 along with his former Co-Lin teammate Hayden Davis and current Ole Miss running back Isaiah Woullard ... Earned BankPlus Blitz 16 Player of the Week honors as a junior in 2015 for his outstanding running back play ... Was also a multi-sport athlete at Tri-County Academy who competed in basketball and track and field in addition to football.
Personal: Majoring in Liberal Studies.
