TANOH KPASSAGNON
SELECTED: 59th overall, 2nd round, Kansas City Chiefs
HERO SPORTS TALKS TO TANOH: Villanova's Tanoh Kpassagnon is quiet in person, loud on the field
TWITTER HANDLE: Doesn't do Twitter
POSITION: DE
HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6-7/289
COLLEGE: Villanova
HOMETOWN: Ambler, Pa.
CAREER STATS: 22 sacks, 37.5 tackles for loss, 105 tackles
NFL.COM COMPARES TO: Margus Hunt, Indianapolis Colts
LAST VILLANOVA PLAYER DRAFTED: 2011 Benjamin Ijalana (Colts, 2nd round, 17th pick)
OTHER SCHOLARSHIP OFFERS OUT OF H.S.: Princeton and other CAA schools showed interest.
RELATED: Where were the FCS players projected to be drafted coming in?
QUOTABLE: "I would say my end goal when I first came here wasn't exactly to be in the NFL. I knew that if I worked hard at anything something good could come from it, and I would say that if you have the talent it'll show no matter where you play. I heard stories every day about guys from D2 and D3 teams buying into the system and having good things happen. Most of all, if you're looking out only for yourself, it may not happen. But if you buy in, if you're one of those guys, you'll get spotted." — Tanoh tells HERO Sports
SUM IT UP … : Kpassagnon, a cornerstone of a Villanova defensive wall that formed the backbone of one of the top defenses in the FCS, is the cerebral defensive lineman whose mother was born in Uganda and whose father was born in the Ivory Coast. His road to Villanova wasn't a well-worn path. There was no line of Big Ten or ACC head coaches snaking around the corner of his home or his high school coach's office. But Villanova loved him, and today the CAA's Defensive Player of the Year sends the love right back.
