West Virginia University Athletics

• Has played in 16 career games, including 12 starts
• Preseason All-Big 12 Conference Fourth Team (Athlon Sports)

2021 (r-Jr.)

• Mayo Clinic Comeback Player of the Year Honorable Mention selection
• Played in 13 games, including 12 starts
• Finished with 37 tackles, including 23 solo stops, five sacks and 11 tackles for loss
• Ranked No. 2 on the team in tackles for loss (11)
• Recorded three tackles, including a tackle for loss and a forced fumble, in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl against Minnesota
• Had three tackles against Texas
• Registered his fifth sack of the year at Kansas State
• Had three tackles against Oklahoma State and assisted on a tackle for loss
• One of his two tackles against Iowa State was for a loss
• Recorded three tackles at TCU
• Had five tackles against Texas Tech, including 2.5 behind the line for TFLs
• Finished with a pair of sacks at Oklahoma, a career high
• Tallied 1 1/2 sacks against Virginia Tech to go along with four total tackles
• Earned his first career start at Maryland and had five tackles, including a TFL

2020 (COVID)

• Worked his way back from his previous year’s injury and played against Army in the Liberty Bowl

2019 (r-So.)

• Played in two games before sustaining a season-ending knee injury at Missouri
• Finished with a sack against James Madison
• Enrolled at West Virginia in January 

2018 (r-Fr.) – Copiah-Lincoln CC

• Played for coach Glen Davis at Copiah Lincoln Community College
• First team All-Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) 

2017 (Fr.) – East Carolina

• Redshirted
• Enrolled at East Carolina in January but transferred to Copiah-Lincoln in the summer

High School

• Three-year varsity starter as a defensive end for coach Ryan Riggan at Union Pines
• Earned All-Cape Fear Valley 3-A Conference First-Team honors
• Charlotte Observer ranked him as a top-25 recruit in North Carolina
• Three-star rating per 247Sports and Scout
• Also a standout in basketball

Personal

• Son of Donald Fairley and Chrystal Dowd
• One of eight children (4 brothers, 3 sisters)
• Graduated in December 2020 with his bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies and is pursuing a second bachelor’s degree in sport management
• Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
• Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll