Career: Finished career ranked in the Top 3 in career sacks with 24.0 (3rd all-time passing Tony Jones) and tackles-for-loss with 43.5 (3rd all-time passing College Football Hall of Famer Boomer Grigsby).

2022: Became the first Redbird in school history to earn the Stats Perform Buck Buchanan Award as the top defensive player in FCS football ... Division I Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association (FCS ADA) National Defensive Player of the Year ... consensus First-Team All-America selection, earning honors from HERO Sports FCS, The Associated Press, the FCS ADA, Stats Perform, the AFCA and Athlon Sports ... named a First-Team Academic All-American by the College Sports Communicators (CSC) and a FCS ADA Academic All-Star ... MVFC Defensive Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... All-MVFC First-Team selection at linebacker and MVFC First-Team All-Academic Team pick ... ranked No. 1 in the FCS in sacks per game and tackles-for-loss per game and led the MVFC in sacks (14.0), TFLs (21.0) and was third in the league in tackles (100) ...  also recorded first career interception, was credited with two forced fumbles, four pass breakups and posted six double-digit tackle efforts, including a career-high 17 in the finale against Western Illinois, when he also recorded a career-best 3.5 sacks ... four-time MVFC Defensive Player of the Week selection.

2021 (fall): MVFC All-Academic First Team selection ... All-MVFC Honorable Mention team pick ... started all 11 games at linebacker for the Redbirds … was second on the team with 73 tackles, including 44 solo stops … led the team with four sacks and tied for the team lead with 8.5 TFLs …also credited with two pass breakup and a team-high eight quarterback hurries … named MVFC Defensive Player of the Week after recording a career-high 14 tackles with two sacks and 3.0 TFLs in a win over UNI.

2021 (spring): Missouri Valley Football Conference All-Academic second-team selection ... started all four games at linebacker for the Redbirds … finished the season with 13 tackles, a sack and two quarterback hurries … recorded five tackles and a sack in the season opener against South Dakota … also posted five tackles at UNI.

2019: Missouri Valley Football Conference All-Academic honorable mention team ... saw action in all 15 games, with eight starts at linebacker ... finished the season with 51 tackles, including 37 solo stops ... added five sacks and nine tackles for loss on the year as well and forced a pair of fumbles ... had five tackles and a half TFL in the season opener at Northern Illinois ... recorded a sack and two TFLs in the win over Northern Arizona ... tallied a pair of sacks and three tackles in the home finale win over Missouri State ... posted a season-high eight tackles and added a TFL in the regular season finale at Youngstown State ... finished with a half sack and four tackles in the second-round FCS playoff win at Central Arkansas.

2018: Saw action in all 11 games at linebacker ... finished the season with 22 tackles, including 15 solo stops ... also credited with 3.5 tackles-for-loss ... had a season-best four tackles in a win over Southern Illinois ... had three tackles and a TFL at North Dakota State.

2017: Redshirted.

Freeport HS: Three-year letterwinner for head coach Aaron Wichman … recorded over 100-plus tackles and finished with three sacks to earn first-team all-conference honors as a senior … named a team captain, as well as the team’s most valuable player … was the team’s defensive most valuable player and a team captain as a junior, while racking up over 80 tackles and tallying five sacks as a junior … posted 80-plus tackles and recorded a pair of sacks as a sophomore.

Personal: Born Jan. 18, 1999, in Vallejo, California … son of Patrick and Tricia Vandenburgh … one of five children … named an Illinois state scholar and a member of the all-state academic team … multiple-time honor roll member … his father coaches football at Freeport and played college football at Wheaton College.