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Eli Adams Season 2018

PositionDL
Weight240 lbs
Height5-11
ClassFreshman
HometownRock Hill, S.C.
High SchoolSouth Pointe

2022 at Virginia Tech
• Yet to make an appearance.
 

2021: Played in all 13 games, making three starts at DE ... Made two tackles vs. North Carolina (9/3) ... Recorded a tackle vs. Middle Tennessee State (9/11) ...  Registered four tackles including 1.0 TFL at West Virginia (9/18) ... Made a tackle vs. Richmond (9/25) ... Recorded two tackles vs. Pitt (10/16) ... Started and recorded a tackle at Boston College (11/5) ... Started vs. Duke (11/13) ... Saw action at Miami (11/20) and at Virginia (11/27) ... Started vs. Maryland (12/29).

2020: Played in five contests, making six total stops and registered 0.5 sacks and a QB hurry ... Made a career-high four tackles vs. Miami (11/14) ... Had two tackles including 0.5 sacks against NC State (9/26).

2019: Played in 11 games making two starts ... Tallied 18 tackles including 2.5 TFL ... Registered a TFL and three total tackles in the Belk Bowl vs. Kentucky (12/31) … Made one tackle vs. North Carolina (10/19) … Posted two tackles vs. Rhode Island (10/12) … Had one tackle at Miami (10/5) … Registered 0.5 TFL vs. Duke (9/27) … Made his first career start and produced a career-high seven tackles vs. Furman (9/14) … Recorded his first career TFL and made a tackle vs. Old Dominion (9/7) … Produced two tackles at Boston College (8/31).

2018: Redshirted ... Played in three games against Boston College (11/3), Virginia (11/23) and Marshall (12/1). 

High School: Guided South Pointe to a SCHSL state championship four years in a row at the 4A level … Earned all-region three times, while being named a 2017 SC Shrine Bowl selection … Tabbed 2017 4A Upper State Defensive Lineman of the Year … Racked up 77 tackles and 19.0 sacks, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery this past fall under head coach Strait Herron.
  
Personal: Elijah Daniel Adams … Born in Columbia, South Carolina … Has two brothers, Nicholas and DaNeil, and one sister, Kimberly … Son of Daniel and Nikki Adams … Father’s cousin, Jeff Burris, was an All-American safety at Notre Dame, a first-round NFL Draft pick of the Buffalo Bills who played 10 seasons in the NFL ... Majoring in criminology.