2024 Football Roster
Saad, Ali
vs
Liberty
Sep 13 (Sat)
5 p.m.
Jersey Number 99
Ali Saad
- Position:
- Defensive Line
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 280
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Windsor, Ontario
- High School:
- Dearborn HS (Mich.)
- Prev School:
- Minnesota
Bio
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Bowling Green |
HONORS
- 2024 Academic All-MAC
2024 | Senior
- Started in all 13 of BGSU's games
- Totaled 40 tackles, 8.5 TFLs, 4.0 sacks, two forced fumbles and a blocked kick on the season
- Notched three tackles, including a sack, in the season-opening win over Fordham
- Made five stops, including a half-TFL, at No. 8 Penn State
- Recorded four tackles with 1.0 TFL at No. 25 Texas A&M
- Posted three tackles, including a sack, vs. Old Dominion
- Registered a stop in the victory at Akron
- Tallied three tackles and blocked a 24-yard field goal attempt in the second quarter against NIU
- Registered a stop in the win vs. Kent State
- Notched four tackles, including a half-sack, in the victory at Toledo
- Posted a season-high six tackles, including two TFL, and forced a fumble in the win at Central Michigan
- Recorded two tackles, including a TFL, in the victory vs. Western Michigan
- Tallied four stops, including a strip-sack, in the win at Ball State
- Contributed a tackle against Miami (OH)
- Posted three stops, including a sack, in the 68 Ventures Bowl against Bowling Green
- Started all 13 of BGSU's games
- Made one tackle at Liberty
- Made three tackles, 1.0 TFL and 0.5 sack in the win against Eastern Illinois
- Notched a career-high six tackles and 0.5 TFL at Miami (OH)
- Made three tackles, 1.0 sack and forced a fumble in the win over Akron
- Made six tackles and forced a fumble in win over Ball State
- Notched two stops and 0.5 against Toledo
- Made two tackles at Western Michigan
- Appeared in seven of BGSU's 13 games
- On the season made five tackles and 1.0 TFL
- Made season debut at UCLA and recorded one tackle
- Notched a tackle against Buffalo
- Made two tackles and 1.0 TFL against New Mexico State in the Quick Lane Bowl
- Appeared in nine of BGSU's 12 games
- Made collegiate debut at Tennessee where he made one stop
- Made a career-high three tackles at Kent State, including a TFL
- Made two tackles against Akron
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Minnesota |
Minneapolis, Minn. |
- Spent the 2020 season at Minnesota, but did not appear in any games
Dearborn High School |
Dearborn, Mich. |
- Played for Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Mich.
- Named a 2019-20 KLAA All-Conference athlete •
- Finished career with 141 tackles and 22 tackles for loss
- Helped lead his team to the state playoffs his junior season by racking up more than 40 tackles and nine sacks
- Coached by John Powell
- Consensus three-star recruit
- Ranked as the No. 76 defensive tackle in the nation and 25th-best recruit in Michigan by 247Sports
Personal |
- Major is exercise science
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