College Football: TCNJ's Defensive Tackle Joe King named to All-America 2nd Team
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Media Release
Ewing, NJ (12/19/07) – With the release of the 2007 D3Football.com All-America
Team, The College’s New Jersey’s senior defensive tackle, Joe King
(Mountainside, NJ/Governor Livingston) has been placed on the All-America Second
Team. King was named D3football.com 2007 East Region Defensive Player of the
Year as well as a First Team All-East Region player.
King recorded 28
tackles for loss and 15 sacks while breaking up seven passes for the Lions, who
held opponents to 70.5 rushing yards per game. He was also named the 2007 NJAC
Defensive Player of the Year.
TCNJ, which had been picked seventh in the
NJAC preseason coaches’ poll, finished the season with a 6-1 NJAC record and a
share of the 2007 championship crown. The Lions advanced to the second round of
the 2007 NCAA playoff before closing the year with a 9-3 record.
King
capped his stellar athletic career having earned the Defensive Player of the
Year honors from both the NJAC and the D3Football.com East Region. His final
game was shortened by an injury, but not before he managed to add his final
career sack. King was extended an invitation to compete in the 2007 AFCA’s Aztec
Bowl, but had to decline the invitation due to the injury suffered in his final
game. King earned NJAC Defensive Player of the Week honors three times in 2007
as well as capturing ECAC Defensive Player of the Week honors once. He caps his
stellar athletic career having excelled on the gridiron. On the 2007 season, he
finished the year with 71 tackles with a team and league leading 28 tackles for
a loss (-173 yards), while also adding 15 sacks (-125 yards). On his career,
King racked up 148 career tackles with 56.5 tackles for a loss (-337 yards),
while adding 34.5 sacks (-269 yards), with 14 pass break ups, four blocks and
four fumbles in 39 games played. As of November 27, he was ranked fifth in
Division III in sacks per game (1.3), while ranking third as well in tackles for
a loss (2.3).