Alabama State’s Kourtney Berry has been named to the 2015 STATS FCS Preseason Defensive Player of the Year Watch List.
Berry was named to the All-Southwestern Athletic Conference first team as both a freshman and sophomore.
He was also the SWAC’s newcomer of the year in 2013 and a third-team All-American in 2014.
Berry is known as a sideline-to-sideline tackler who has had as many as 20 stops in a game. His 128 tackles in 2014 led the conference and his 105 in 2013 were the second-most.
Berry was able to combined for 25 tackles for loss in his first two seasons.