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2023
First-team All-MAC...CSC First-team Academic All-America...Led team and was fourth in MAC with 9.0 sacks...Team leader with 10.5 TFL...Career-high 2.5 sacks vs. CMU...Key sack on final possession in 32-31 win over BGSU...Named MAC West Defensive Player of the Week after totaling four tackles and career-high 2.0 sacks vs. Texas Southern...Played vs. Wyoming in Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl just three weeks after cancer surgery...Academic All-MAC.
2022
Eighth on team with 44 tackles...Three tackles, 0.5 TFL vs. LIU...Five tackles vs. UMass...Six tackles, one sack, one forced fumble vs. Central Michigan...Ran for a one-yard first down on a fake punt vs. NIU...Career-high 10 tackles, 2.5 TFL vs. Kent State...Academic All-MAC and CSC Academic All-District.
2021
Started all 13 games...43 tackles, three sacks, two breakups and three QB hurries...Season-high eight tackles vs. Colorado State...Three tackles and one sack at Ohio...Four tackles, two pass breakups and a sack vs. CMU... Academic All-MAC...Nominee for Academic All-American.
2018-20 (at Penn State)
Played in 22 games in 2019 and 2020 and was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree...Appeared in 13 games in 2019, mostly on special teams, registering one tackle...Played in nine games and tallied five tackles in 2020...Had five tackles, including a three-tackle effort against Maryland...Sat out as a redshirt in 2018.
High School
Four-time letterman at Plant High School in Tampa, Fla...Helped the Panthers to a 45-7 record in four seasons, including four district championships and a state runner-up finish as a junior (13-1) and a berth in the state semifinals as a senior (12-2)...Named to the Tampa Bay Times All-Tampa first team as a senior, honorable mention team as a junior...Earned Tampa Bay Times All-Hillsborough first-team accolades in 2017 and second-team honors in 2016...Two-time all-district choice...Earned Florida All-State Class 7A second-team accolades in 2016..Rated a four-star prospect by Rivals and three-star recruit by 247Sports and ESPN...Ranked the No. 28 strong-side defensive end, No. 118 prospect in Florida by 247Sports...Head coach was current Rocket assistant coach Robert Weiner.
Personal
Full name is Judge Broward Culpepper...Son of Monica and Brad Culpepper...Has one brother, Rex, and one sister, Honor...Father was an All-American defensive lineman at Florida and helped the Gators to the SEC Championship in 1991...Won the 1991 Drady Trophy (now the William V. Campbell Trophy), which is known as the “Academic Heisman”...Father played nine years in the NFL, including six seasons with Tampa Bay...Brother was a quarterback at Syracuse...Sister plays basketball at NYU...Mother was a contestant on “Survivor: One World” and both parents were on “Survivor: Blood vs. Water”... Graduated with a degree in university studies in May of 2022...Working on a second degree in communications...Hopes to attend law school one day.
Career Game Highs
Tackles: 10 (vs. Kent State, 10-15-22)
