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Daniel King OL Troy 2025 Tropical Bowl

  • Position Offensive Line
  • Class Senior
  • Ht./Wt. 6-5 / 340
  • Hometown Cairo, GA.
  • Highschool Cairo HS

2024 All-Sun Belt Second Team
2023 All-Sun Belt Second Team

Senior (2024): 
Named to the All-Sun Belt Second Team … Finished Troy career with 2,642 snaps played, allowed nine sacks in 1,396 career pass blocking snaps … Named permanent team captain and to the Leadership Council …  Split time across two positions, playing 429 snaps at right tackle and 360 at right guard … Allowed just two sacks all season in 408 pass blocking situations and was the fourth-rated run blocker in the league … Key blocker for a 1,000-yard rusher and 1,000-yard receiver, just the third duo in program history to reach those thresholds in the same season … Troy allowed just four sacks in November, the fewest in the Sun Belt

2023 (Junior): Named to the All-Sun Belt Second Team … Played 963 offensive snaps, third most on the team … Troy’s top-rated pass blocker and run blocker per PFF … Allowed just five sacks, four hits and six hurries in 520 pass blocking situations at right guard … Posted seven games with a perfect PFF 100 efficiency rating … Called for just three penalties all year … Blocked for Kimani Vidal, who was named the Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Year and AP All-American after setting school records for single-game, single-season and career rushing yards … Blocked for just the third 3,000-yard passer and 1,000-yard rushing combo in program history … Did not allow a hit on the quarterback in 11-of-13 games

2022 (Sophomore): Started all 14 games at right guard … Troy’s top-rated pass blocker per Pro Football Focus … Allowed just two sacks, one QB hit, 10 hurries and 13 pressures in 467 passing situations … Called for just four penalties … Played 888 offensive snaps … Did not allow a sack in the final six games of the season … Ranked third among Sun Belt guards (min. 600 snaps) per PFF in pass blocking … Leader on an offensive line that paved the way for Kimani Vidal to hit the 1,000-yard rushing mark for the first time in his career and the 11th in Troy history … The Trojan offense was one of the most explosive in the country, ranking fourth with nine passes of 50-plus yards and five passes of 60-plus yards 

Georgia Military College: Helped the Bulldogs race out to a 6-2 start with a pair of three-game winning streaks … Georgia Military averaged 178.9 rushing yards per game to rank 16th nationally

High School: Helped lead the Syrupmakers to a combined 30-8 record his final three seasons following a 4-6 record his freshman year … Recorded 25 pancake blocks as a senior … Two-time all-region selection and named all-state as a senior … Helped lead Cairo High School to the third round of the Georgia AAAA Playoffs his senior campaign … The Syrupmakers won the regional championship in 2017 and 2018 … Finished fourth in the Georgia 4A in wrestling

Personal: Full name is Edric Daniel King … Son of Victoria Heady … Born June 23, 2001… Majoring in criminal justice

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