* 2021 All-MVFC Second Team
* 2019 MVFC Honor Roll
2021 SEASON (SENIOR): Named to the All-Missouri Valley Football Conference second team...Started 14 games at linebacker...Missed the NCAA second round playoff game due to illness...Finished the year as NDSU's third-leading tackler...Made 58 total tackles including 3.0 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks...Intercepted three passes for 55 yards...Had two interceptions at Illinois State and one at home the following week against Missouri State...Also had two pass breakups and one forced fumble...Season-high seven tackles against Indiana State and in the national championship win over Montana State.
2020-21 SEASON (JUNIOR): Started all 10 games at linebacker...NDSU's third leading tackler with 52 total tackles...Made 2.5 tackles for loss and 1.0 sack...Had five pass breakups, one quarterback hurry and one forced fumble...Career-high eight tackles in the NCAA first round playoff win over Eastern Washington...Seven tackles against Central Arkansas, including six solo stops...Also had seven tackles at Southern Illinois.
2019 SEASON (SOPHOMORE): Played in 13 of 16 games...Made a tackle on NDSU's first kickoff of the season against Butler but was injured and missed the rest of the non-conference slate...Had one tackle for loss in his return at Illinois State...Season-high six tackles including four solo stops, a tackle for loss and an assisted sack in the win over South Dakota...Named to the Missouri Valley Football Conference Honor Roll.
2018 SEASON (FRESHMAN): Played in 10 of 15 games as a true freshman...Played a majority of his time on the kickoff coverage team and punt defense...NDSU ranked ninth in FCS and led the Missouri Valley Football Conference averaging 15.61 yards per punt return.
HIGH SCHOOL: 2018 graduate of Bishop Miege High School...Played his junior year at Raytown South before transferring to Bishop Miege, where he was a safety on the school’s fourth straight Kansas Class 4A state championship under coach Jon Holmes...All-state and all-conference first team in 2017...Had 88 tackles including 54 solo stops...Intercepted four passes and returned two for touchdowns...Also had a punt return TD...Ran on a record-setting 4x100 relay team...Also participated in basketball and baseball.
PERSONAL: Majoring in sociology with a minor in psychology...Son of James and Lotu Cox...Family includes three brothers and three sisters...Older brother,
Jabril Cox, was a two-time All-America linebacker at NDSU from 2016 to 2019 before transferring to LSU for his senior season.
