? 2016 ? Senior Season
Awards: Earned first team CoSIDA Academic All-America...Is the 16th two-time Academic All-American in Penn State history, after earning second team honors in 2015...Named Penn State's Big Ten Sportsmanship Award recipient...Selected CoSIDA Academic All-District...Named a semifinalist for the Campbell Trophy, which recognizes an individual as the premier football scholar-athlete in the nation...Named Academic All-Big Ten for the third time in his career...Earned the Nittany Lion Club Academic Achievement Award (senior with highest cumulative GPA) at the annual Nittany Lion Football Banquet.
Season: Appeared in all 14 games...Handled all of the long snapping duties from 2014-16, which spanned 40 games.
Purdue (11/29): Cleared punt returner after a muffed punt to enable Jordan Smith to recover the fumble on the play. Michigan State (11/26): Kept the ball from reaching the end zone on the fourth-quarter Blake Gillikin punt that was downed at the 2-yard line.
? 2015 ? Junior Season
Awards: Named to CoSIDA Academic All-America second team, marking the 64th honor for a Penn State football player...Is a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District selection (2014, 2015)...Named Academic All-Big Ten.
Season: Appeared in 13 games...Has handled all of the long snapping duties since the beginning of 2014. Indiana (10/10): Combined with Jordan Dudas on his first tackle of the season on the opening punt return.
? 2014 ? Sophomore Season
Awards: Selected Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-District®...Nominated for Academic All-America®...Selected Academic All-Big Ten for the first time in his career.
Season: Handled all of the long snapping duties in each of the team's 13 games. Temple (11/15): Made his first career tackle on a punt return.
? 2013 ? Redshirt Freshman Season
Did not see any game action.
? 2012 ? True Freshman Season
Redshirt season.
? High School
A four-year letterman for head coach Chad Brubaker at Spring-Ford High School...Selected All-Pioneer Athletic Conference and first-team all-area tight end as a senior...Helped the Rams to the PAC-10 Championship during his final prep season...Selected a team captain in his senior year...Earned Distinguished-Scholar honors all four years...Also lettered in baseball...Earned all-academic team honors his senior year.
? Personal
Full name is Tyler James Yazujian...Son of Jim and Denise Yazujian...Enjoys fishing...Enrolled in the College of Information Sciences and Technology and is interested in studying security and risk analysis...Brought a 3.86 cumulative grade-point average into the summer...Born September 25, 1993 in Phoenixville, Pa.