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Jersey Number 7
Ty Son Lawton
- Year:
- Redshirt Senior
- Position:
- Running Back
- Ht./Wt.:
- 5-9 / 205
- Hometown:
- Staten Island, N.Y.
- High School:
- Curtis
- Previous:
- Stony Brook
- Major:
- Professional and Continuing Education
2023:
Prior to JMU:
High School:
Personal:
- Played in 12 games, making one start at running back
- Had 126 carries for 568 rushing yards and five touchdowns
- Averaged 4.5 yards per rush
- Also made 19 receptions for 174 receiving yards and a touchdown
- Season-high 95 rushing yards and career highs of six catches for 57 receiving yards and a score at Georgia State (Nov. 4)
- Ran for 79 yards and two touchdowns at Virginia (Sept. 9)
- Rushed for 73 yards and score at Coastal Carolina (Nov. 25)
- Tallied 87 all-purpose yards vs. App State (Nov. 18), rushing for 37 and making five receptions for 50 yards
- Season-long 28-yard rush vs. Georgia Southern (Oct. 14)
- Season-best 20-yard reception vs. App State
Prior to JMU:
- Transferred to JMU after spending five seasons at Stony Brook (2018-22)
- Played in 27 career games
- Had 457 carries for 2,102 rushing yards and 21 touchdowns, averaging 4.6 per rush
- Averaged 77.9 rushing yards in his SBU career
- Also had 13 catches for 95 yards and a score
- 2021 First Team All-CAA running back
- Appeared in three games in 2022, rushing for 98 yards and a touchdown
- Led CAA in rushing with 1,088 yards and 10 touchdowns in 2021 while playing in 11 games
- Ran for 268 yards and three touchdowns in 2020, playing in four games
- Played in nine games in 2019, rushing for 648 yards and seven scores
- Redshirted 2018 season
- Career-high 192 rushing yards vs. Delaware (2021)
- Career-long and SBU-record 99-yard rush vs. Delaware (2021)
- Career-high three rushing touchdowns vs. James Madison (2019)
- Career-high 28 carries at Rhode Island (2021) and at Albany (2020)
- 10 career 100-yard rushing performances
- Four career games with 2+ rushing touchdowns
High School:
- 2017 All-City selection
- Rushed for over 2,600 yards at Curtis
- Helped team to 23-1 record while a member of the varsity team
- Won back-to-back NYC PSAL championships in 2016 and 2017
- Team captain
Personal:
- Nephew of Stacey Johnson
- Has a brother, James, and a sister, Sherell
- Graduated from Stony Brook in December 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in multidisciplinary studies
- Pursuing post-graduate studies in professional and continuing education
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