As a senior: Returned for a fifth-year and served as one of Bryant's three team captains ... Appeared in and started all 11 games, serving as a linebacker and punter for the Black and Gold ... Posted 35 tackles, four sacks, a career-high 8.5 tackles for a loss and an interception ... Punted the ball a career-high 59 times for 2,168 yards ... Averaged 36.7 yards per punt and put 15 inside the 20 ... Rushed for a XX-yard touchdown on a fake punt against Bucknell ... Also completed a 21-yard pass on a fake punt against Sacred Heart ... Posted five tackles, including a sack, in season opener against Stony Brook ... Five tackles and another sack in win over Maine ... Three tackles and an interception at home against Robert Morris ... Two sacks at Duquesne ... Posted five tackles at Sacred Heart and three against Wagner in the final game of his career ... Punted the ball a season-high nine times at Stony Brook ... Averaged a season-best 40.6 yards per punt against Maine ... Punted eight times and placed five inside the 20 against Sacred Heart.
As a junior: Shined as one of Bryant's starting linebackers and the team's punter in 2013 ... Appeared in all 12 and started 11 games ... Finished the season with 63 tackles, 7 tackles for a loss, four sacks, two interceptions and one fumble recovery for a touchdown ... Averaged 38.3 yards per punt, putting 11 inside the 20 ... Posted six tackles and a sack in the season-opener with Holy Cross (Aug. 31) ... Collected six more tackles the following week against Assumption (Sept. 7) ... Posted seven tackles at Maine (Sept. 14) ... Intercepted his first pass of the season at Wagner (Sept. 28) ... Led Bryant with six tackles at Stony Brook (Oct. 5) ... Turned the tide against Duquesne (Oct. 26), returning a fumble 29 yards for a touchdown ... Posted eight tackles against Robert Morris (Nov. 2) and Saint Francis (Nov. 9) ... earned his second interception of the season against the Red Flash ... Averaged over 40 yards per punt in five games ... Averaged 44.3 yards per punt at Maine ... Recorded a season-high 345 punting yards vs. Saint Francis ... Named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll.
As a sophomore: One of Bryant's top three linebackers, started all 11 games in 2012 ... Led the team with 65 tackles and forced fumbles (2) ... Also recovered a fumble on the season ... Posted eight tackles, seven solo, in season-opener vs. Marist (Sept. 1) ... Collected 10 tackles in Bryant's victory over Monmouth (Oct. 20) ... Forced fumbles in back-to-back victories over Constitution State foes Sacred Heart (Nov. 3) and Central Connecticut (Nov. 10) ... Finished the season with a season-high 11 tackles against Bucknell (Nov. 17) ... Named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll.
As a redshirt-freshman: Did not see action ... Named to the NEC Academic Honor Roll.
Before Bryant: A 2010 graduate of Cypress Creek High School, Sammons was a two-year varsity letterwinner on the football team ... Named an all-district linebacker as a junior and an all-district linebacker and punter as a senior ... Helped team to indentical 9-2 records and district championships in each of his last two years ... Also competed in baseball and track ... Graduated Cum Laude.
Personal: Son of Glenn and Andra Sammons, Samuel Sammons was born on May 27, 1992 ... Has one brother, Nick.
