Note: With 21 IU football seniors playing their final game Saturday, the IDS took the time to talk to all the graduating players.
Jammie Kirlew, defensive end
Major: SPEA management and public financial management double major
Career stats:
- Career stats: 214 tackles, 25 sacks, six fumbles forced
- 2009 stats: 56 tackles, 5.5 sacks (leads team), 14.5 tackles for loss (leads team)
- Career game (vs. Minnesota, 2008): 8.5 tackles, 2.5 sacks, one tackle for loss
Quotes
On what it means to be an IU football player:
Oh man, it means a lot to me. Especially being a part of the senior class, it's everything we've been through in the past four or four and-a-half-years through the ups and downs, the loss of Coach Hep, to everything that has happened to us. It's definitely been a roller-coaster ride for us and we stuck together. We were resilient. We all pushed each other and we all worked hard.
On his favorite individual memory:
Last year against Minnesota. That was a game I'll always remember. After that I was like 'Hey, I can do this, I can really play.' I remember one of the safties say 'If you can play like that the rest of the season, you can get All-Big Ten'. Something like that never really crossed my mind...that was one of the first games I really stepped up and played well.
On future plans:
Number one is I'll play my heart out at Purdue. After that, I'll finish up here - I'll be graduating in December...I'll be working out and training and see what I hear from All-Star games or combines and start getting ready for that.
From the archives
Here's a commercial Jammie Kirlew did for the Big Ten, in which he briefly talks about his experience studying abroad.
The IDS' Greg Rosenstein wrote a profile on Kirlew after he was named to the Allstate AFCA Good Works team.
