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Jon Shelby

Class: Senior Hometown: Brockton, Mass. High School: Brockton HS

Last College: Nassau CC Height / Weight: 6-1½ / 210 Position: Linebacker Experience: JC

2010-11 (At Nassau CC): Played in 21 games during his two-year career at Nassau Community College... Helped lead the Lions to a 19-2 mark under head coach Curtis Gilliam, including a perfect 11-0 mark in 2010 and a No.3 NJCAA final ranking... Collected 82 tackles, 59 of which were solo stops, during his two seasons at NCC... Also recorded 12 TFLs for minus 33 yards, two sacks for minus seven yards, two pass breakups and one fumble recovery... Was honored as an All-Northeast Conference first team member at linebacker in 2011.

High School: Averaged 20 tackles per game his senior season at Brockton HS... Also had four sacks and three fumble recoveries, while playing both inside and outside linebacker for the Boxers... Earned Big Three All-Star honors... Named to the Enterprise News All-Scholastics Defensive Team in 2009... Also competed in track and field at Brockton HS.

Personal: Son of Vera Shelby and John Larke... Chose Kansas over Syracuse... Junior college teammate of current KU junior Aslam Sterling.