IHENACHO AT A GLANCE:
• A rookie safety who made six tackles (5 solo) during the 2012 preseason.
• Made 268 tackles (142 solo) with seven interceptions during his 47-game career at San Jose State.
• Scored three defensive touchdowns during his college career (2 INT, 1 FR).
• Became the first Spartan to earn three All-Western Athletic Conference First Team honors.
• He and his brother, Carl, became the first known brother tandem in NCAA history to lead the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) or Division I-A in separate major statistical categories in the same week (INT and TFL, respectively).
• Entered the NFL with Denver as a college free agent on May 3, 2012.
IHENACHO AT A GLANCE:
• A rookie safety who made six tackles (5 solo) during the 2012 preseason.
• Made 268 tackles (142 solo) with seven interceptions during his 47-game career at San Jose State.
• Scored three defensive touchdowns during his college career (2 INT, 1 FR).
• Became the first Spartan to earn three All-Western Athletic Conference First Team honors.
• He and his brother, Carl, became the first known brother tandem in NCAA history to lead the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) or Division I-A in separate major statistical categories in the same week (INT and TFL, respectively).
• Entered the NFL with Denver as a college free agent on May 3, 2012.
CAREER TRANSACTIONS: Signed by Denver as a college free agent 5/3/12; Waived by Denver 8/31/12; Signed by Denver (practice squad) 9/1/12; Signed by Denver (active roster) 9/29/12; Waived by Denver 10/11/12; Signed by Denver (practice squad) 10/13/12; Signed by Denver (active roster) 10/30/12; Waived by Denver 11/13/12; Signed by Denver (practice squad) 11/15/12... Signed by Denver (future contract) 1/15/12.
2012: Ihenacho started the season on the Denver practice squad... signed to the active roster (9/29)... Made his NFL debut, playing on eight special-teams snaps vs. Oak. (9/30)... Waived by Denver (10/11)... Signed back to the Denver practice squad (10/13)... Signed to the active roster (10/30)... Made one special-teams tackle at Cin. (11/4)... Waived by Denver (11/13)... Signed to to the Denver practice squad (11/15).
COLLEGE: Ihenacho became the first San Jose State player to earn All-Western Athletic Conference First Team honors three times as he totaled 268 tackles (142 solo) and seven interception in his career... Scored three defensive touchdowns, with two coming off interceptions and one resulting from a fumble recovery… Recorded 73 tackles his senior year, good for third on the Spartans… Played in two games in 2010 before suffering a season-ending injury… Named to the preseason Jim Thorpe Award Watch List in 2009… Returned an interception for a touchdown in back-to-back games as a sophomore as one of only two players in the country accomplish that feat… Recorded the Spartans’ only blocked punt as a freshman as the youngest player on the squad
PERSONAL: Ihenacho majored in business marketing at San Jose State… Didn’t play tackle football until his junior year of high school... His older brother, Carl, played at San Diego State and was signed as a college free agent by San Diego in 2011 before being waived and picked up by Oakland for the team’s practice squad in December... Duke Ihenacho was born on June 16, 1989 in San Mateo, Calif.
