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2017 Football Roster

59 Jonathan Dimon

  • Position LB
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 234
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Florence, N.J.
  • Highschool Notre Dame

Biography

Moved into a starting spot on the defensive line as a senior in 2017… Selected to the 2018 National Football Foundation (NFF) Hampshire Honor Society… Recipient of the 2017 Fordham Football Academic Achievement Award... Provided the Rams with depth at defensive line/linebacker and on special teams… Served as a backup at end in 2016… Became a valuable special teams player in 2015 who also saw some action at linebacker, appearing in ten games... Named the 2014 defensive scout team player of the year... Saw limited action as a freshman… An All-Area and All-CVC selection in high school... Named to the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 Patriot League Commissioner’s Honor Roll.

2017 (Senior Season)
• Started all eleven games at defensive end as a senior.
• Recorded eight tackles, five solo, including two for loss and one sack.
• Also recovered two fumbles.
• Selected to the 2018 National Football Foundation (NFF) Hampshire Honor Society.
• Closed out the season with a pair of tackles, one for loss, in win over Bucknell.
• Made one solo tackle for loss at Lafayette.
• Finished with a pair of solo stops versus Eastern Washington.
 
2016 (Junior Season)
• Appeared in six games, both on the defensive line and special teams.
• Recorded two solo tackles.
• Made solo stops in the Navy and Monmouth games.

2015 (Sophomore Season)
• Appeared in ten games as a sophomore.
 
2014 (Freshman Season)
• Appeared in one game as a freshman (Georgetown).

Before Fordham
• A graduate of Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where he lettered in football for three years for Coach Chappy Moore.
• Served as a team captain.
• An All-Area and All-CVC selection.
• Named Defensive Player of the week three times.
• Honored as Scholar Athlete by the Delaware Valley Football Foundation.
• Named Irish Defensive MVP.
• Also lettered in lacrosse as a long pole for three years.
• Served as a team captain.
• Named All-CVC in lacrosse.
• Member of the National Honor Society and Latin National Honor Society.

Personal
• Son of Dawn and Mark Dimon.
• Has two older sisters: Ashley, a graduate of Syracuse where she played softball, and Chelsea, a graduate of Boston College where she played softball.
• An Applied Accounting and Finance major.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 59

    2014Freshman

    LB
    6'0" 220 lbs
    59
  • 59

    2015Sophomore

    LB
    6'0" 220 lbs
    59
  • 59

    2016Junior

    LB
    6'0" 234 lbs
    59
  • 59

    2017Senior

    LB
    6'0" 234 lbs
    59