Ian Campbell
Bio
Career: 2005 – 2008
Position: Defensive End
Height: 6’5”
Weight: 255
Hometown: Cimarron, Kansas
High School: Cimarron
Career Stats
Games Played: 47
Games Started: 36
Tackles: 166
Tackles for Loss: 37.5
Sacks: 20.5
Fumbles Recovered: 8
Blocks: 4
Career Awards
2005: Purple Pride Award – Top Walk-On
2006:
- First Team All-Big 12
- Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year (Houston Chronicle)
- Semi-Finalist for the Hendricks Award
- Honorable Mention All-American
2007:
- First Team All-Big 12 – Coaches
- Second Team All-Big 12 – AP
2008:
- Second Team All-Big 12
Notes
High School
- All-Hi Plains League
- All-Area
- Hutchinson All-Area
- 3A Honorable Mention All-State
- 3 Year Letterman in Basketball
- Broke Cimarron Career Tackles Record (324)
College
2006
- Led team in tackles for loss (17.5) and sacks (11.5)
- Led Big 12 defensive linemen in tackles (67)
- Led Big 12 in tackles for loss
- Tied K-State single-season sack record
- Ranked 2nd in the Big 12 and 10th nationally in sacks
2007
- Moved from defensive end to outside linebacker
- Led team in tackles for loss (11)
- Led Big 12 in Fumble Recoveries (4)
- Team Captain
2008
- Finished career ranked 6th in K-State for sacks (20.5)
Highlights
Bring on the Cats Staff Memories
Drew:
These are fun because, as a late-arriving K-State fan, I was unaware of Ian Campbell’s career. He’s the prototypical home state kid who started in Manhattan as a walk-on and finished as one of the best defensive players in program history.
I don’t have any memories of Ian, obviously, but I’m sure other folks do.
Jon:
This one’s hard because, like Trey Dishon, Campbell starred during a bleak valley in K-State’s fortunes. Unlike Dishon, I wasn”t able to watch him play on a weekly basis because I was n Virginia and I was lucky to get four K-State games a year on TV per season. What I do know is this: the Fresh Prince really screwed him up. You don’t take an all-conference defensive end who was an honorable mention All-American and move him to linebacker, dummy.