Career:First-team All-American by Walter Camp Football Foundation in 2020 ... Also anAll-American via Sporting News (second team), PFF College (second team) and Phil Steele (third team) in 2020 … Semifinalist for the Bednarik Award (nation's top defender) and Thorpe Award (nation's top defensive back) … PFF's Sun Belt Player of the Year as a senior … Led nation as a senior with 16 PBUs and 17 passes defended (with one interception) in 12 games as a senior … From 2019-20, his 27 passes defended (PBUs and INTs) led FBS defenders ... Made 25 starts (two-year starter) in 50 career games and recorded 31 PBUs among 33 passes defended (with two interceptions) … Added 97 career tackles, including 82 in his two seasons as a starter ... In five years with program, helped App State go 52-13 with five bowl wins and four Sun Belt Conference championships, with a 42-10 mark in four years as an active player ... Invited to the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl and FBS All Americans Tropical Bowl, where he intercepted a pass ... According to PFF, ranked the 16th-best player in all of college football in 2020.
2020: First-team All-American by Walter Camp Football Foundation (first FBS first-team All-American in school history) ... Second-team All-American and the Sun Belt Player of the Year by PFF College … Second-team All-American by Sporting News and third-team All-American via Phil Steele ... Semifinalist for the Bednarik Award (nation's top defender) and Thorpe Award (nation's top defensive back) … First-team All-Sun Belt … Led nation as a senior with 16 PBUs and 17 passes defended (with one interception) in 12 games as a senior … Started all 12 games at cornerback and intercepted a pass at Texas State … Recorded 37 tackles, tying a career high of eight against Charlotte and posting six more against Arkansas State … ESPN's No. 3 breakout player in 2020 (behind BYU QB Zach Wilson and Alabama QB Mac Jones) … According to PFF, had the rare accomplishment of recording a higher forced incompletion rate (34.6%) than catch rate allowed (32.7%) ... Targeted 35 times in single coverage and allowed only five catches while forcing 18 incompletions, according to PFF … Part of a tandem with Shaun Jolly, helped App State have the best CB tandem in college according to PFF College, as the Mountaineers had an FBS-leading 74 passes defended … Part of only FBS team that allowed its opponents to complete less than 50 percent of its passes (47.9 percent) … During regular season, second in the FBS in yards per coverage snap allowed on the outside … PFF College's national Defensive MVP of the Week after recording a career-high four pass breakups, eight tackles and one forced fumble against Charlotte … Recorded three PBUs at ULM and two apiece against Marshall, Campbell and Louisiana.
2019: Third-team All-Sun Belt from PFF College … Appeared in all 14 games and made 13 starts at cornerback … Tied for eighth on the team with 45 tackles and recorded his first career interception in the win against UAB in the R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl … Second on the team with nine PBUs, including three in the win at Georgia State … Received a coverage grade of 79.0 by PFF College, which had him allowing just four completions on 17 passes on targets of 20-plus yards (with one interception and four incompletions forced) ... Had two breakups apiece in wins at South Carolina and against Coastal Carolina … Made a career-high eight tackles in the Sun Belt Championship Game win against Louisiana and had seven tackles in the victory at South Carolina … Picked off a deep throw at the App State 20 and returned the ball 11 yards in the bowl win against UAB … Forced a fumble in the season-opening win against ETSU … Started the first four games and the final nine games of the season but also played starter's snaps at Louisiana in a 17-7 win.
Personal:Full name is Shemar Samson Jean-Charles … Son of Trenise Daniels … . Has two siblings: Desah and Daniel.
Courtesy of Appalachian State athletics
