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A consensus first team All-American his junior year who ranks eighth in school history for most tackles in a single season, Tyrone Frazier amassed 218 total stops in his career despite having his senior season interrupted by an injury. He played for Villanova from 1992-95 and graduated from the University in 1996. Frazier was inducted to the Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 2012 in his second year on the ballot.
 
The best season of Frazier’s career was the 1994 campaign in which he recorded 150 tackles, including 88 solo stops and 62 assisted tackles. He made 10 tackles for loss on the season and was credited with four sacks for a total loss of 30 yards. Frazier added three pass breakups and two forced fumbles on the season. His 150 tackles are the eighth most in a single season in Villanova history.
 
Frazier was a consensus first team All-American in 1994 and was recognized by the Sports Network, the American Football Coaches’ Association and Don Hansen’s Football Gazette. He was a third team Associated Press All-American and was named to both the Yankee Conference First Team Defense and the ECAC First Team Defense that year in addition to being a two-time weekly conference award winner. Frazier was named the Yankee Conference Defensive Player of the Week on September 17 after he had a career-high 25 tackles in an overtime contest against Delaware.
 
After leading the Yankee Conference in tackles and earning All-America honors in 1994, Frazier was considered a candidate for the Buck Buchanan Award as the nation’s top defensive player entering his senior year. His 1995 campaign lasted just two games however, as he sustained a season-ending injury at Delaware. Frazier made 16 tackles and had two tackles for loss to go along with a pass breakup and a fumble receovery in the two games he played in.
 
In the season prior to his All-America campaign, Frazier recorded 51 total tackles (30 solo, 21 assisted) and had three tackles for loss while recording three forced fumbles and one fumble recovery in 1993. He had made his collegiate debut in 1992 as part of a Villanova team that went 9-3 and reached the FCS playoffs while winning the Lambert Meadowlands Cup.