2024 Football Roster
Jersey Number 5
Sean Martin
- Position:
- Defensive Line
- Height:
- 6-5
- Weight:
- 295
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Bluefield, W. Va.
- High School:
- Bluefield
- Appeared in 56 straight career games, including 34 starts
- NFL Combine Participant
- NFF Hampshire Honor Society
- Finished with 100 career tackles, including 10.5 sacks, 16.5 tackles for loss and had a pass breakup, a forced fumble and a blocked field goal
2024 (Sr.)
- Started all 13 games on the defensive line
- All-Big 12 Conference Honorable-Mention (Coaches)
- Saw action on 707 plays, including 603
- Registered 23 tackles, including 3.5 sacks, 5.5 tackles for loss and a pass breakup for the season
- Finished with five tackles and a tackle for loss in the Frisco Bowl against Memphis
- Recorded his first career pass breakup at Texas Tech
- WVU Defensive Champion: UCF
- Registered a sack for the second straight game, finishing with three tackles against Baylor
- Posted three tackles and a sack at Cincinnati
- WVU Juice Award: Arizona
- Added one solo tackle at Arizona
- Finished with four stops and an assisted tackle for loss against KSU
- Assisted on a sack against Iowa State
- WVU Blue Collar Award: Oklahoma State
- Assisted four tackles and a tackle for loss against Kansas
- Tallied one solo stop at Pitt
- Posted two solo tackles, including a sack against UAlbany
- 2024 Iron Mountaineer Award winner
2023 (Jr.)
- Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- All-Big 12 Honorable-Mention (Coaches)
- Started all 13 games on the defensive line
- Saw action on 487 defensive snaps, including a season-high 56 against Texas Tech
- Finished with 27 tackles, including 15 solo stops, one sack, five tackles for loss, four quarterback hurries and one blocked field goal
- Added two solo tackles at Baylor
- Finished with two solo stops, including a tackle for loss against Cincinnati
- Recorded four tackles at Oklahoma, including his first sack of the season
- Assisted on tackles at UCF and against BYU
- Finished with two tackles for loss at Houston
- Blocked TCU’s game-tying field goal attempt in the fourth quarter; finished with two assisted tackles and a quarterback hurry
- Posted four tackles and a quarterback hurry against Texas Tech
- Added a pair of solo stops in the Pitt game
- Led the team with four tackles and added a tackle for loss against Duquesne
- Recorded three solo tackles in the season opener at Penn State
2022 (So.)
- Academic All-Big 12 Conference First Team
- Played in 12 games and started eight
- Finished with at least 1.5 tackles for loss in four games in 2022
- Totaled three stops at Oklahoma State
- Made five tackles against Kansas State
- Posted a career-best two sacks as part of a three-tackle day against Oklahoma
- Finished with four stops, including 1.5 tackles for loss against TCU
- Career night vs. Baylor featured six tackles, including a sack,1.5 tackles for loss and a forced fumble
- Posted four tackles at Texas
- Assisted on a pair of tackles at Virginia Tech
- Earned his first career start against Towson; posted one assisted stop in the game
- Tallied a pair of tackles for loss against Kansas as part of a four-tackle day
- Finished with two stops, including the first sack of his career, at Pitt
2021 (Fr.)
- Academic All-Big 12 Conference First Team
- Saw action in all 13 games
- Used on 275 snaps, including 212 on defense
- Season-high 25 defensive snaps at TCU
- Finished with 16 tackles, including assisting on a tackle for loss, a quarterback hurry and a fumble recovery
- Registered two tackles against LIU, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma, Baylor and Minnesota
- Assisted on a tackle for loss at Maryland and had a fumble recovery against LIU
2020 (COVID)
- Academic All-Big 12 Conference Rookie Team
- Added depth on the defensive line, used primarily on special teams
- Saw action in the final five games of the season with season-high six plays at Texas
- WVU Scout Team Defensive Player of the Week (K-State)
High School
- Played defensive end for coach Freddy Simon at Bluefield High
- Captained the Class AA All-State First-Team Defense in 2019
- Led the Beavers to a 12-2 record and the 2019 Class AA state championship game
- Team captain
- Registered 102 tackles, including eight sacks, four forced fumbles and one fumble recovery
- As a junior, named to the Class AA All-State First Team, as well as the All-USA West Virginia Second Team
- Helped Bluefield to a 12-2 record and Class AA state runner-up
- Finished with 144 tackles and seven sacks
- Part of Bluefield’s undefeated, state championship team as a sophomore in 2017
- Also played basketball
- Three-star prospect by rivals, ESPN and 247Sports
- Rivals ranked him as the No. 1 prospect in West Virginia and No. 24 defensive end nationally
- ESPN listed him as the No. 1 prospect in the state
- Ranked as the No. 2 overall prospect and No. 28 defensive end in the county by 247Sports
- Also offered by Baylor, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan State, Minnesota, NC State, North Carolina, Oregon, Penn State, Pitt, Purdue, Utah, Vanderbilt, Virginia and Virginia Tech
Personal
- Son of David Leggett and Torie Martin
- One of seven children (2 brothers, 4 sisters)
- Graduated with his bachelor’s degree in sport management in December 2023
- Currently pursuing his master’s degree in business administration
- Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
- Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll
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