Biography
2023 (R-Sr.): Started all 13 games for South Alabama during the 2023 season ... received All-Sun Belt Conference Second Team honors at season's end ... named to Phil Steele's All-Sun Belt Third Team ... led the South Alabama defense with 84 total tackles on the year, 49 of which were solo takedowns ... recorded 6.5 sacks throughout the season and 16 tackles for loss ... forced two fumbles on the year in back-to-back games ... hurried the opposing quarterback six times and broke up one pass ... tallied a season-high 15 tackles in a home game against Louisiana, including 4.5 tackles for loss in that game ... notched 2.5 sacks and three tackles for loss in a win over Arkansas State ... tallied double-digit tackles in three-straight games against Louisiana, Troy and Arkansas State ... made three tackles, including one for loss, in South Alabama's 68 Ventures Bowl Championship against Eastern Michigan.
2022 (Sr.): Played and started four games before suffering a season-ending injury... Recorded 18 tackles, including 14 solo... Recorded nine tackles against Nicholls (9/3)... Also recorded six tackles against Central Michigan (9/10)... Recorded one quarterback hurry against Nicholls (9/3)... Registered two tackles against UCLA (9/17) before leaving with an injury.
2021 (Jr.): Played in 11 games, earning three starts ... Started games against Georgia Southern, Arkansas State, and Troy ... Recorded 45 total tackles, including 18 solo stops ... Recorded a season-high 11 tackles against Arkansas State, including six solo stops ... Also recorded nine tackles against Troy ... Finished with seven tackles against Georgia Southern including a pair of solo stops ... Recorded four or more tackles two other times on the season including five (ULM) and four (Texas State) ... Finished the season with 2.5 tackles for loss including one against Arkansas State ... Also finished with 0.5 tackles for loss in three contests - Southern Miss, Bowling Green, and Troy.
2020 (Jr.): In his first year at the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision level appeared in seven contests ... Recorded 12 tackles — including one behind the line of scrimmage, a pass break up and a quarterback hurry ... Credited with a season-best four stops at Georgia Southern ... Followed up that performance with three tackles, all assists, at 15th-ranked Coastal Carolina ... Posted a pair of solo stops, with one for a loss of three yards, in season finale against Troy ... Also finished with two tackles and a pass defensed in South’s match-up with UAB ... Made one tackle in a road win at Arkansas State.
At Northwest Mississippi CC: Earned three stars from 247Sports.com coming out of junior college, and was rated by the organization as the 13th-best inside linebacker prospect ... Was considered a two-star recruit by Rivals.com as well ... A first-team all-Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges selection as a sophomore after recording team-high totals with 70 tackles, 5½ stops behind the line of scrimmage and 2½ sacks ... Also was credited with three passes broken up, a forced fumble, fumble recovery and an interception he returned 30 yards as his efforts helped the Rangers finish sixth in the final National Junior College Athletic Association poll after going 8-3 and reaching the MACJC championship game ... Posted a career-best 14 tackles, a forced fumble and a pass defensed in a season-opening victory over East Central (Miss.) CC ... Had 11 stops in the MACJC title contest against eventual national champion Mississippi Gulf Coast CC, adding 10 with two for loss in a win over seventh-ranked Jones (Miss.) JC in the semifinals ... Finished with nine tackles in regular-season finale against Itawamba (Miss.) CC ... Made eight stops — two of those were for a loss — and returned an interception for a touchdown in win over Northeast Mississippi CC ... Also recorded eight tackles with one behind the line in victory at No. 8 Copiah-Lincoln (Miss.) CC ... Had 20 total stops as a freshman, including 3½ for loss, recovered a fumble and blocked a kick as a freshman to help the Rangers finish 8-2 and ranked seventh in the final NJCAA poll ... Credited with a season-high five tackles in a win at Southwest Mississippi CC.
High School: Lettered two years each in football, baseball and track at Oxford HS ... Chosen the Mississippi 5A Player of the Year and was a finalist for the WBCI EndZone Defensive Player of the Year Award as a senior after posting 169 total tackles with 4½ sacks, two fumble recoveries and four pass breakups after helping the team to an 8-4 finish and a berth in the state 5A playoffs ... Was also named SES Elite 10 that fall ... Led the 5A classification with 171 stops when he was a junior as the Chargers finished 8-5 after winning their first-round state playoff game ... Was an all-state selection each of his last two years at the prep level ... Credited with 21 tackles in games against South Panola High as a senior and Starkville HS the previous year ... Part of an OHS team that went 12-3 and advanced to the state championship game when he was a sophomore, while his freshman year the Chargers finished 13-2 after playing for the state title.
Personal: Full name is Quentin Carter Wilfawn ... Born July 27, 1999, in Clarinda, Iowa ... Son of Jason and Angie Wilfawn ... Is the oldest of four children ... Favorite movie is “The Sandlot” ... Favorite book is “Summer of the Monkeys” ... Favorite team is the Kansas City Chiefs ... Favorite athlete is Luke Kuechly ... Favorite foods are pancakes, eggs and bacon ... Enjoys fishing, sports and the beach in his spare time ... Was recruited by Memphis, Arkansas State, Louisiana and Charlotte in high school, and had scholarship offers from Georgia Southern, ULM and Liberty coming out of junior college ... An exercise science major.
