Corleone announces his return for 2025 season

by Ryan Roberts

Redshirt senior nose tackle Dontay Corleone announced on Monday he will return to the Bearcats for a fifth season in 2025.

 

 

A Cincinnati native and Colerain High School product, Corleone will earn his bachelor's degree later this week. 

Corleone was named all-conference for the third straight season last week, earning First-Team All-Big 12 honors. He totaled 26 tackles, 5.0 tackles for loss, and 3.5 sacks and overcame a difficult offseason that saw him sidelined with blood clots for three months. He was cleared to return to the playing field on Sept. 3 and made his season debut just days later vs. Pitt.

 

Corleone was a second-team selection last season and a first-team All-AAC performer in 2022. “The Godfather” burst onto the college football scene as a redshirt freshman that fall, collecting Associated Press All-America Third Team and consensus Freshman All-America honors. He was the nation’s highest-rated defensive player according to PFF in 2022.

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