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2024 Football Roster

0 Gianini Belizaire

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 285
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Gonaives, Haiti
  • High School Snider
  • Prev School Southern Illinois University
  • Major Sport Management

Biography

2024: Lined up and played in all 12 games in the 2024 season … Recorded 32 tackles (12 solo, 20 assisted) … Posted 7.0 tackles-for-loss and 3.0 sacks … Recorded three quarterback hurries and one forced fumble … Season-high six tackles three times in the 2024 season … Six tackles, 2.0 TFL, and 1.0 sacks on Oct. 19 at Missouri State … Six tackles, 1.5 TFL, and a sack on Oct. 26 against Southern Illinois … Three tackles, 1.5 TFL, 1.0 sacks, and a forced fumble on Sept. 14 against Dayton … Six tackles and 1.0 TFL on Sept. 7 at Eastern Illinois … Recorded at least three tackles in six games.

2023: Finished the 2023 season with 15 total tackles (three solo, 12 assisted) … Recorded 3.0 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks on the year … Lined up and started in all 11 games at defensive tackle … Season-high three tackles and 1.0 tackles for loss at Southern Illinois … Two tackles, 1.5 TFLs, and 1.0 sacks at Ball State … One tackle, 0.5 TFLs and 0.5 sacks against Eastern Illinois … Posted at least two tackles in six games on the season.

2022: Finished 86th in the NCAA FCS and seventh in the MVFC in sacks per game (0.45) … Finished fifth on the Sycamores with 37 total tackles (13 solo, 24 assisted) … Posted a team-high 8.5 tackles for loss and 5.0 sacks … Added two quarterback hurries … Forced a fumble … Made his Indiana State debut with a season-high six tackles and added 1.5 TFL and 1.5 sacks against North Alabama … Posted five tackles and 2.0 TFL at Youngstown State … Posted five tackles and 0.5 TFL against North Dakota State … Had four tackles, 2.5 TFL, 1.5 sacks, and a forced fumble at Western Illinois … Added quarterback hurries against South Dakota State and Missouri State.

2021 Fall (Southern Illinois)

  • Posted 20 tackles, 3.0 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks at SIU in the fall

2021 Spring (Southern Illinois)

  • Played in 6 games and made 7 tackles, including a tackle-for-loss in playoff game at South Dakota State
  • Had season-high 3 stops at Youngstown State and at South Dakota State

HIGH SCHOOL

  • Named to the Indiana Football Coaches Association Top 50 All-State team
  • One of five players on the Class 6A All-State team
  • All-Northeast area selection as a senior, and first-team All-Summit Athletic Conference in 2018 and 2019
  • Recorded 32 tackles for loss and 13 sacks during his junior and senior seasons
  • Racked up 16 tackles for loss with five sacks as a senior and 15 tackles for loss with eight sacks and 61 total tackles
  • Also wrestled, had a 27-4 career record, and led the team in pins
  • Was three-year track letterman
  • Moved from Haiti to U.S. in 2012

Personal

  • Pronounced Bell-uh-zar-eeG-uh-knee-knee

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 2021-22Sophomore

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    6'1" 310 lbs
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    2022Sophomore

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    6'1" 310 lbs
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    2023Junior

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    6'1" 300 lbs
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    2024Senior

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    6'1" 285 lbs
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