Jibri Blount
College basketball star turned NFL tight end.
Jibri Blount, born October 21, 1996, is an American former football tight end who played college basketball for the Cleveland State Vikings and the North Carolina Central Eagles. He converted to football and signed with the Miami Dolphins in 2021. Blount was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Linsly School for two years before transferring to St. Vincent–St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio, where he was coached by Dru Joyce II. As a senior, he averaged 16.0 points and 11.0 rebounds per game, leading his team to a 16–1 record and earning second-team all-district and All-Ohio honors.
Quick Facts
- Position
- Tight end
- Born
- 21 October 1996
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- High school
- Linsly School (Wheeling, West Virginia); St. Vincent–St. Mary (Akron, Ohio)
- College
- Cleveland State (2015–2017); North Carolina Central (2018–2020)
- Former teams
- Miami Dolphins (2021); Arlington Renegades (2023)
- Highlights
- MEAC Men's Basketball Player of the Year (2020); First-team basketball All-MEAC (2020)
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Did You Know?
- Blount's father is Mel Blount, an NFL Hall of Fame inductee who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- When Jibri was in third grade, he brought two of his father's championship rings to class without telling him.
- His older brother Akil was signed by the Miami Dolphins in 2016, and his younger brother Khalid plays football for Duquesne.
- He was waived by the Miami Dolphins on July 26, 2021, and later assigned to the Arlington Renegades of the XFL on January 6, 2023.
College career
Blount began his college basketball career at Cleveland State. As a freshman in 2015–16, he averaged 5.7 points per game over 29 appearances. The following season he averaged 3.8 points in 30 games. After his sophomore year, Blount transferred to North Carolina Central and sat out the 2017–18 season as a redshirt.
In his junior season (2018–19), he averaged 10.1 points and 4.4 rebounds per game. As a senior in 2019–20, Blount started all 31 games and averaged 19.1 points and 9.3 rebounds per game, leading the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in steals. On January 25, 2020, he scored 33 points, which matched his career high, and grabbed 10 rebounds in a 72–45 win over Delaware State. On February 10, he scored 20 points, including the game-winning basket with 2.2 seconds left, and pulled down nine rebounds in a 58–57 victory against Morgan State.
Blount was named MEAC Player of the Week five times and earned MEAC Player of the Year honors at the end of the regular season.
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