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Shaka Toney, DS #8 DE, Penn State 
Selected: Round 7, Pick 18, Overall Pick 246 by Commanders
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Name: Shaka Toney
College: Penn State Number: 18
Height: 6-3 Weight: 242
Position: DE Pos2: OLB
Class/Draft Year: rSr/2021
40 Low: 4.46 40 Time: 4.53 40 High: 4.60
> Projected Round: 2-3 Stock: 
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Combine Invite: Yes
Height: 6024
Weight: 242
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Dates: 03/25/21
Hand: 09 1/2 Arm: 33
Wingspan: 82 1/8
Height: 6024
Weight: 242
40 Yrd Dash: 4.53
20 Yrd Dash: 2.63
10 Yrd Dash: 1.58
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225 Lb. Bench Reps: 24
Vertical Jump: 39
Broad Jump: 10'08"
20 Yrd Shuttle: 4.29
3-Cone Drill: 7.00
40 Time Range: 4.52-4.53/Projected 4.67
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Data Scout Notes: 2020: 1stC...PNagurski...2019: 2ndC...2nd team All-Big Ten, HM All-Big Ten w/41 TT, 8 TFL, 6.5 SCK, PBU, 5 QBH, FR at DE in 13 gms in '19. 23 TT, 7.5 TFL, 5 SCK, 2 PBU, 3 QBH, FF in 13 gms in '18. Big Ten All-Freshman Team, Backup w/20 TT, 6.5 TFL, 4 SCK ,
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Shaka Toney, Penn State, Player News
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Penn State redshirt senior defensive end Shaka Toney has declared for the 2021 NFL Draft, he announced via Twitter on Monday night. He made the decision after discussions with his family, coaches and teammates, he wrote. The 6-foot-3, 252-pound Philadelp hia native started in all nine games this season for the Nittany Lions. He finished the 2020 season with 31 total tackles, 7.5 tackles for a loss, five sacks, one pass defended and one forced fumble. Toney was named first-team All-Big Ten by the media, t he conference's coaches and the Associated Press. For his career, Toney had 115 total tackles, 29.5 tackles for a loss, 19.5 sacks, four passes defended, four forced fumbles and one fumble recovered. His 19.5 career sacks are good for 10th all-time in sc hool history. - Centre Times
(DS#8 DE) rSr/2021  DE Shaka Toney, Penn State
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2020 ALL-BIG TEN FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM (COACHES): DL Shaka Toney, Penn State,...Toney, a member of the Bronco Nagurski Award Watch List, had two sacks in each game against Indiana and Iowa, registering both of his sacks against the Hoosiers in the fourth q uarter. He also forced a fumble on a strip-sack against Iowa. Toney has recorded two or more tackles for loss seven times in his career and five career games with two or more sacks. He sits 10th all-time at Penn State with 19.5 career sacks and owns 28.5 career tackles for loss. Toney was an All-Big Ten second team selection by the coaches in 2019. Toney has served as a team captain for the 2020 season. He has accepted an invitation to play in the 2021 Senior Bowl. - Penn State Football
(DS#8 DE) rSr/2021 DE Shaka Toney, Penn State
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By any measure, the Penn State football team's season has been a disappointment. At 2-5, there is no other way to label a program that had aspirations of being a contender for the national title before the campaign opened. But leave it to defensive end S haka Toney, ever an eternal optimist, to see the positives in losing far more than winning. "Losing isn't fun, and I've never lost this many games in my career on any team," Toney said during a video conference with media on Tuesday. "Now, I've just lear ned how to handle it. I learned how I can get better from it and what I can do to help to get out of losing. It was all a lesson. It ain't the end of the world. … You've just got to maximize your opportunities when things don't always go as planned. Yo u've got to learn situations and maximize situations when they don't got the best way."I just feel like it was a big learning year. There's a lot of things you can just take away this year that hopefully you worked on in yourself." Presumably, the re is little refinement for Toney's affable, enthusiastic nature. Even with the guarantee that Penn State will have with a losing regular season for the first time since 2004, Toney preached the importance of completing the task at hand. "You don't win e very marathon you run," Toney said. "You don't win every race. But if you finish, that's what means the most because now, you can get up and learn. Whereas if you quit and you just lay down and keep letting people walk all over you, you ain't learning no thing. You're not getting better. You're taking no lesson from the loss. All you're learning is that I can quit when stuff gets tough. "You always want to see things through. That's all we preach is to finish strong. It ain't always how you start. It's a bout how you finish." - Tribune Review
(DS#8 DE) rSr/2021 DE Shaka Toney, Penn State
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2021 SENIOR BOWL WATCH LIST: Shaka Toney, Penn State,...Tabbed All-Big Ten second team by the coaches in 2019...Named Phil Steele All-Big Ten third team...Made 13 starts in 2019...Tied the Penn State game record with four sacks, all in the fourth quarter , at Indiana (10/20/18)...Equaled the PSU game record set by three others (Terry Killens vs. Indiana, 1995; Jimmy Kennedy at Wisconsin, 2012; Tamba Hali vs. Wisconsin, 2005). - Penn State Football
(DS#8 DE) rSr/2021 DE Shaka Toney, Penn State
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2020 BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY PRESEASON WATCH LIST: DE Shaka Toney, Penn State,...The winner of the 2020 Bronko Nagurski Trophy presented by LendingTree as the National Defensive Player of the Year will be chosen from those five finalists. The FWAA All-Ame rica Committee, after voting input from the association's full membership, selects a 26-man All-America Team and eventually the Nagurski Trophy finalists. Committee members, by individual ballot, select the winner they regard as the best defensive player in college football. Tabbed 2019 All-Big Ten second team by the coaches...Made 13 starts in 2019 and was one of 18 Nittany Lions to make their first career start...Registered a solo sack in the Idaho win (8/31/19)...Collected five tackles, including two solo, in the win over Pittsburgh (9/14/19), while also recoding a solo sack and a QB hurry. - Penn State Football
(DS#8 DE) rSr/2021 DE Shaka Toney, Penn State
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Shaka Toney earned second-team All-Big Ten honors while recording 6 1/2 sacks last season. That makes him the sack leader among Penn State's returning players. But that's only part of the reason junior defensive tackle P.J. Mustipher respects the Nittany Lions' fifth-year senior defensive end. The other part stems from a conditioning session last summer when Toney pushed Mustipher further than the younger player thought he could go. Mustipher, 6-foot-4, 305 pounds, was doing pull-ups one day when he dec ided to use elastic bands for assistance. "Doing pullups for bigger guys is difficult," Mustipher said. "Shaka walks over and says, 'You don't need the band. You can do that pull-up. I'm not going to allow you to do the pull-up with the band.'"Mus tipher wasn't sure he could do it, but all of a sudden, he did eight without the band. "That goes to show you he cares so much about who you are and wants to develop you," Mustipher said. "He's not always going to tell you what you want to hear. He's goi ng to tell you what you need to hear. "He's been a leader of this team since I stepped on campus. He's always pointed me in the right direction. It's going to be some tough love with Shaka, but at the end of the day, he's going to have your best interest s at heart because he really cares about you and cares about the team as a whole." - Tribune Review
(DS#8 DE) rSr/2021 DE Shaka Toney, Penn State
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2019 ALL-BIG TEN SECOND TEAM (COACHES): DL Shaka Toney, Penn State,...Second-team All-Big Ten selection by the coaches and honorable mention choice by the media...Ranked No. 15 in the Big Ten in sacks with 0.54 per game (6.5 total)...Tied for seventh on the team with 39 tackles, including 8.0 tackles for loss...Has five quarterback hurries, one fumble recovery and one blocked kick. - Penn State Football
(DS#8 DE) rSr/2021 DE Shaka Toney, Penn State
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Big Ten defenses turned in three of the season's top five sack totals over the weekend, with Penn State leading the way with 10 against Purdue. Wisconsin had nine against Kent State and Michigan had eight against Iowa. Penn State took down Purdue's Jack Plummer 10 times, seven in the first half, and finished with its highest number of sacks since 1999 and one shy of the school record. Defensive ends Shaka Toney (3) and Yetur Gross-Matos (2) combined for half of Penn State's sacks. Eight players had a ha nd in at least one.“I didn't even know we had 10 sacks until we got into the locker room,” linebacker Jesse Luketa said. “I'm not surprised, though. We call them the "Wild Dogs" for a reason. We let them loose and it was time to hunt. I-m ex cited for them. A couple weeks ago there was talk about how our front four weren't as productive as what we wanted, and today they took that to heart and went out and executed.” Purdue had minus-19 rushing yards, the fewest against Penn State since 197 8 and fifth-fewest since 1947. - AP College Football
(DS#8 DE) rSr/2021 DE Shaka Toney, Penn State
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