Oklahoma State University Athletics
2019 Football Roster
Roster
Kolby Harvell-Peel
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 210
- Class:
- Sophomore
- Hometown:
- College Station, TX
- High School:
- A&M Consolidated
2019 First Team All-Big 12 (Coaches, AP)
2019 OSU Bob Fenimore Award (Team MVP)
2020 Second Team All-Big 12 (Coaches)
2021 All-America Third Team - Associated Press
2021 First Team All-Big 12 (Coaches, AP)
Career Highs
Tackles
Sacks 1.0, four times, last at Texas Tech, 2021
TFL 2.0, twice, last at Baylor, 2020
Pass Breakups
Interceptions 2, twice, last vs. Kansas, 2019
An athletically-gifted play maker throughout his career who finished his time at OSU as an All-American ... A three-time All-Big 12 pick ... Wrapped up his career ranked No. 12 in school history with 24 pass breakups ... When he finished playing he ranked No. 5 among all active FBS players with 10 career interceptions and was No. 13 with 34 career passes defended ... A four-year starter who started 40 games in his career and played in 49 ... Set an OSU single-game record with six pass breakups at Iowa State in 2019.
2021 (Senior): Earned third team All-America honors from the Associated Press ... First team All-BIg 12 selection by the coaches and the AP ... Started all 14 games ... Finished third on the team with 70 tackles on the year, including 42 solo stops ... Finished with three interception to lead the Cowboys on the year, also ranking No. 3 in the Big 12 and No. 36 in the FBS ... His first interception came on a deep pass with less than five minutes remaining to help preserve OSU’s one-point win at Boise State ... His second came just before haltime inside of OSU’s 25-yard line in the win over Kansas State and the third came in the first quarter of the Kansas win and was returned 20 yards to help set up an OSU score ... Added three pass breakups on the year ... Had at least seven tackles in six games, including a high of eight vs. Kansas State and Notre Dame ... One of his best performances came in the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl win over No. 5 Notre Dame ... In addition to finishing with a season-high eight tackles, he made a pair of game-changing plays in the fourth quarter .. The first came when he forced and recovered a fumble on the same play after the Fighting Irish had driven into Cowboy territory and the second came when he made a leaping pass breakup on a fourth-down throw with less than three minutes remaining ... Added 4.5 tackles for loss on the season, including a sack vs. TCU and a sack at Texas Tech ... Served as a game captain for the wins over Baylor and TCU ... Was included on the watch list for the Reese’s Senior Bowl, Bednarik Award and Thorpe Award.
2020 (Junior): Second-team all-Big 12 selection according to the league’s coaches ... Played and started in 10 contests ... Ranked fourth on the team with 44 tackles, 31 of which were solo stops ... Of his 44 tackles, 25 came on opponent run plays ... Had two interceptions and four passes broken up ... With two interceptions, he ranked eighth in the Big 12 ... His interception on a deep pass thrown by Iowa State’s Brock Purdy was one of OSU’s plays of the season ... Also had a pick against Tulsa ... Had a season-high eight tackles against Texas Tech and six against both Baylor and Miami ... Credited with two tackles for loss and a sack against Baylor ... One of the most prominent figures on a defense that led the FBS in third down conversion defense and ranked in the top 25 nationally in sacks, tackles for loss, fumbles recovered and defensive touchdowns.
2019 (Sophomore): Earned first team All-Big 12 honors from both the coaches and the Associated Press and was honored by the OSU coaches with the Bob Fenimore Award presented to the team’s most valuable player ... Made a significant contribution in a wide variety of areas, posting 71 tackles, five interceptions, 13 pass breakups, two forced fumbles, two recovered fumbles, a sack, three tackles for loss and a quarterback hurry ... His five interceptions ranked seventh nationally and his two fumbles recovered tied for 27th nationally ... Joined Cincinnati’s Ja’von Hicks as the only two players in the FBS who ranked in the top 30 nationally in both interceptions and fumbles recovered ... Led the Big 12 and ranked fourth in the FBS with 1.5 passes defended per game ... Set a school record when he broke up six passes as part of Oklahoma State’s win at No. 23 Iowa State ... Six passes broken up matched the highest single-game total in the FBS in 2019 ... During one three-game stretch (vs. Iowa State, TCU and Kansas), Harvell-Peel had four interceptions, one fumble recovery and eight passes broken up ... All three of those games resulted in Oklahoma State wins ... His 13 pass breakups tied for 10th in the FBS and tied for ninth in school history ... A three-time selection as Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week, marking only the second time since the Big 12 was formed in 1996 that a Cowboy had earned that distinction three times in one season (All-America defensive end Emmanuel Ogbah accomplished the feat in 2015) ... Harvell-Peel’s three Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week performances came against Texas, TCU and Kansas ... Against the Longhorns, he had nine tackles, an interception, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery ... Against the Horned Frogs, he had six tackles, two interceptions, recovered a fumble and broke up two passes ... Against the Jayhawks, he had two interceptions and a quarterback hurry ... Had a season-high 10 tackles against Tulsa ... Served as a game captain on five different occasions (vs. Kansas State, Baylor, TCU, Kansas and West Virginia) ... Was a leading performer on an Oklahoma State defense that made significant improvement from the previous season ... In 2018, the Cowboys allowed an average of 32.5 points and 452.5 yards per game, but in 2019, those numbers improved to 26.8 points per game and 412.3 yards per game ... The Cowboys of 2019 held each of their final six opponents below their season scoring average.
2018 (Freshman): Bagged 52 tackles, 44 of which were solo stops, as a true freshman ... His 5.5 tackles for loss were the most for any Cowboy newcomer ... Added a sack and four pass breakups ... Played a significant role in the Cowboys’ Liberty Bowl win over No. 23 Missouri, posting a game-high nine tackles (eight of which were unassisted) and breaking up a pass, but more notable than his stats that game was the fact that he made what amounted to the game-winning tackle on a fourth-down play at the OSU nine-yard-line to end the Tigers’ last-gasp possession ... Logged seven tackles in three separate games against West Virginia, Iowa State and Baylor ... Had a sack against South Alabama and a season-high two tackles for loss at TCU ... Added tackles for loss against Baylor and Kansas State and assisted on a tackle for loss against Iowa State.
High School: Played for coach Lee Fedora at A&M Consolidated in College Station, Texas ... Racked up 61 total tackles during his senior season, including 38 that were unassisted ... One of his tackles went for a loss ... Also defended four passes, including two during A&M Consolidated’s 19-13 win over College Park on Sept. 22, 2017 ... As a senior, he intercepted one pass, forced one fumble and recovered three more ... Returned one of his fumble recoveries for a touchdown - one of four that he scored in 2017 ... His other three touchdowns came as a receiver, as he hauled in four passes for 102 yards and three scores ... Included in his three receiving scores was a 71-yard touchdown reception during A&M Consolidated’s 52-47 victory over Magnolia on Sept. 8, 2017 ... Logged 79 tackles, including 25 solo stops and five tackles for loss, during his junior season ... Also racked up 85 tackles as a sophomore ... Thirty-three of his sophomore-season tackles were unassisted and five resulted in a loss for the opposing offense ... Credited with one quarterback hurry during his high school career ... Intercepted six total passes during his sophomore and junior seasons, as he tallied two during the 2015 season and a career-high four in 2016 ... Also scored two more receiving touchdowns on five total catches as a sophomore in 2015 ... Helped A&M Consolidated compete in the UIL 5A D1 State Football Championships in each of his four seasons at the school ... A&M Consolidated averaged just under eight wins per season during his time, and reached the nine-win mark twice (2015 and 2017) ... Also ran track in high school, competing in the 100-meter dash and the 4x100-meter relay ... Rated as a three-star talent by ESPN, Rivals and 247Sports ... ESPN ranked him as the No. 62 player at his position in the 2018 recruiting class, while 247Sports listed him at No. 71 ... 247Sports also ranked him as the No. 102 player coming out of Texas in 2018 ... Chose Oklahoma State over Cincinnati, Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas, Minnesota, North Texas, SMU and UTSA.
Personal: Born March 1, 2000, in Houston, Texas. … Son of Katie Harvell and Dee Peel ... Father played football at Texas State ... University Studies major.
