Player Profile: Anthony Olobia
#56 Anthony Olobia
Rivals.com: Profile as recruit
Position: Defensive End
Height: 6-5
Weight: 247
Class: Senior
Hometown: Renton, Wash.
High School: Liberty HS
Previous School: Arizona Western College
Career Honors: 2015: Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll and Athletic Director’s Honor Roll (spring).
2015 (R-Jr.): Saw time in all 12 games… Started contests against Rutgers, Baylor, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State… Notched 23 tackles, 4.0 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks… Turned in a career-high five tackles at Iowa State… Posted his first-career sack against Texas Tech… South Dakota State: Ended his first game as a Jayhawk with two tackles from his defensive end position… Memphis: Recorded one tackle… at Rutgers: Started his first-career game at defensive end, but did not record any statistics… at Iowa State: Garnered a career-high five tackles… Baylor: Started his second game and made his first-career tackle in the backfield… Texas Tech: Started, and wrapped up the first sack of his career, along with two total tackles… at Oklahoma State: Assisted on one tackle... Oklahoma: Made one tackle… at Texas: Saw time at defensive end, but did not record any statistics... at TCU: Rotated in at defensive end and made three tackles, including one for loss, while hurrying the quarterback once… West Virginia: Subbed in at defensive end, but did not record any statistics… K-State: Secured two tackles, while assisting on a sack against the Wildcats.
2014 (Jr.): Redshirted his first season at Kansas. 2012-13 (Fr.-So. at Arizona Western): Rated a three-star prospect by Rivals.com, ESPN.com and Scout.com... Tabbed the 44th-best overall junior college player and second-best weakside defensive end by JCGridiron.com... ESPN.com ranked him the 13th-best junior college defensive end in the country... Earned Arizona Community College Athletic Conference (ACCAC) First Team honors as a sophomore... Tallied 54 tackles, including 24 solo stops, in 2013... Credited with 20.0 tackles for loss and 8.0 sacks as a sophomore... Recorded 25 tackles, 7.0 tackles for loss and 4.0 sacks during his freshman season... Helped lead Arizona Western to an 8-2 overall mark and an El Toro Bowl win in 2012... Coached by Tom Minnick at AWC.
High School: Prepped at Liberty High School under head coach Steve Valach... Helped lead LHS to the playoffs in 2010, playing on both the offensive and defensive lines.
Personal: Son of Mary Habenicht and Augustin Olobia... Chose Kansas over offers from Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Utah... Majoring in liberal arts and sciences.