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2019 Football Roster

Laura O'Dell
Frank Mattia
Dale Rutemeyer

24 Elijah Ibitokun-Hanks

  • Position Running Back
  • Height 5-8
  • Weight 205
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Newark, N.J.
  • Prev School Albany
  • Highschool Don Bosco Prep

Biography

CHATTANOOGA: Graduate transfer who joined the Mocs in the summer of 2019 with one year of eligibility remaining ... pursued a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice ... spent the previous four seasons at Albany … 2016 All-American and All-CAA first team after finishing fourth in the CAA with 1,401 rushing yards and second in CAA with 16 rushing touchdowns … 767 yards and four TDs in 2018 … only played in one game in 2017 due to injury … led the team with 609 rushing yards in 2015 ... 13 career 100-yard games ... four at UTC ... career-high is 202 yards on 25 carries against Richmond in his freshman season in 2015 ... 3,470 rushing yards, 29 TDs in his collegiate career ... fourth among active FCS in career yards ... 12th in career TDs. 
 
2019 • SENIOR SEASON: Missed four games with an injury suffered in the first half against Western Carolina ... four-straight 100-yard games ... averaged 78.8 yards per game ... 657 rushing yards on 112 attempts is 5.6 yards per carry ... six rushing TDs ... 28 carries for 132 yards at VMI ... 19 carries for 119 yards and two TDs against The Citadel ... returned to action at Samford and posted 139 yards and two TDs on 27 carries in place of the injured Ailym Ford ... also caught a four-yard TD pass, the first receiving score of his career ... 10 carries for 125 yards and two TDs against Western Carolina … all in the first half ... 73-yard TD run in the second quarter … ran the last 40 yards with a pulled hamstring ... longest run by a Moc since Kendrix Huitt had a 74-yarder at Western Carolina on Nov. 3, 2012 ... did not return after this run ... best yards/carry in a game since Derrick Craine had 13.1 (118/9) against Presbyterian on Oct. 20, 2016 ... tied for eighth-best yards/carry in school history ... 15 carries for 85 yards at Tennessee ... 15 yards shy of becoming the first Mocs rusher to top the century mark against an SEC opponent since Bryan Fitzgerald’s 123 (14 carries) at Arkansas on Oct. 6, 2007 ... three rushing yards on four carries in first two games combined.   
 
PRIOR TO UTC:  Spent the last four seasons at Albany … 2016 All-American and All-CAA first team after finishing fourth in the CAA with 1,401 rushing yards and second in CAA with 16 rushing touchdowns … 767 yards and four TDs in 2018 … only played in one game in 2017 due to injury … led the team with 609 rushing yards in 2015 … graduated from Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.J., 2014 … played the 2014 season at Avon Old Farms … Totaled 1,553 rushing yards and 24 rushing touchdowns on 240 carries as a senior … also recorded 135 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns on 13 receptions.

PERSONAL: Son of Travis Hanks and Rotoimi Ibitokun … has three brothers and two sisters.

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