2008 Football Roster
Roster
Jasper O'Quinn
- Position:
- DB
- Height:
- 5-10
- Weight:
- 179
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Bude, MS
CAREER:
As expected when he signed out of junior college, made an immediate impression on the Bulldog coaching staff with his aggressive play ... Saw immediate action after arriving on campus, he developed into the starter at one cornerback position ... Has played in 12 of a possible 13 games for State ... Has earned seve starting calls ... Has made 37 tackles, including one and one-half for loss (minus 7 yards) ... Has also been credited with a pair of pass deflections and one interception ... Came to MSU following a standout season at Copiah-Lincoln (Miss.) Community College and one year at Delta (Miss.) State ... Outstanding high school quarterback at Franklin County.
2007:
Missed just one game (12 of 13) during his first season at Mississippi State . . .Only missed seeing game time in Week 3 at Auburn due to injury ... Earned seven starting assignments at one cornerback position ... Opened State’s Week 4 contest against Gardner-Webb and the final five games of the regular season ... Also started the post-season bowl game ... Made 37 tackles, including one and one-half for loss (minus 7 yards), during his junior campaign ... Recorded his first collegiate interception and was credited with a pair of pass deflections ... Moved into a top reserve role in the defensive secondary during pre-season camp, and became Mississippi State’s fifth defensive back in passing situations from the outset of his junior campaign ... Made two tackles in the season opener vs. LSU ... Credited with another tackle one week later in the club’s win over Tulane before being sidelined with a quadriceps muscle injury ... Did not dress one week later for the Bulldogs’ game at Auburn ... Rebounded from that injury to gain his first collegiate start in Week 4 action against Gardner-Webb ... Made three tackles in the 31-15 win over the Runnin’ Bulldogs ... Returned to the stats column with a pair of hits two weeks later in the club’s 30-13 win over UAB ... After making only eight tackles in the season’s first six weeks, he totaled 27 hits over the final month and a half ... Had the best game of his young MSU career in Week 7 ... Returned to the starting line-up and totaled a season-high eight tackles against Tennessee, intercepting his first collegiate pass against the Volunteers ... Recorded five tackles, including one tackle for loss (minus 5 yards), and a pass deflection in the Bulldogs’ win over nationally ranked Kentucky two weeks later ... Finished second on the team with nine hits in MState’s Week 10 win over nationally No. 21-ranked Alabama ... Made three tackles at Arkansas in Week 11 ... Registered two tackles, including one-half hit for loss (minus 2 yards), in MSU’s regular season-concluding 17-14 win over Ole Miss in the Battle For The Golden Egg ... Registered two tackles in State’s 10-3 win over Central Florida in the 2007 AutoZone Liberty Bowl.
JUNIOR COLLEGE:
Rated the No. 9 Juco prospect in the state of Mississippi by the Jackson Clarion-Ledger in its season-ending ranking, the second-highest rated defensive back ... Credited with running a 4.4 in the 40-yard dash by the Scout.com recruiting web site ... Also credited with a 260-pound bench press maximum and a 30-inch vertical jump by the Rivals.com recruiting web site ... Named first-team all-region XXIII in the Mississippi junior college system and first-team, all-South Division by the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges ... Recorded 34 total tackles and had four pass interceptions in his only season for head coach Glenn Davis at Co-Lin ... Transferred to Copiah-Lincoln Community College from Delta State at mid-term 2005 ... Other top scholarship offers: LSU, West Virginia, Louisville, Iowa State and Tulsa ... Committed to MSU in December 2006.
DELTA STATE:
Played in nine games during his true freshman season for head coach Rick Rhoades at NCAA Division II school Delta State (Miss.) University ... Made 37 tackles, including four and one-half tackles for loss (minus 22 yards), one of which was a quarterback sack (minus 11 yards) ... Forced one fumble, broke up five passes and had one pass interception for the Statesmen in his lone season at the Cleveland, Miss., institution.
HIGH SCHOOL:
Starred at both quarterback and defensive back for head coach Anthony Hart at Franklin County High School in Meadville, Miss. ... Led his high school team to a 12-2 record and into the Class 3A title game as a senior, after making the switch from running back ... Rushed for 1,479 yards and scored eight touchdowns as a tailback during his junior campaign, helping his team to an 8-3 overall record.
PERSONAL:
Born Jasper Jerome O’Quinn, 2-2-87, in Brookhaven, Miss. ... Son of Mr. and Mrs. Richey O’Quinn ... His cousin, Mike Hunt, was also a 2007 signee.
