• At Navy: Enters the fall listed as the starter at bandit ... has started 19 games during his career (7 So // 12 Jr) ... has earned 2 varsity letters.
• 2022: Garnered Second-Team Academic All-America honors after earning Academic All-District recognition from College Sports Communicators (formerly CoSIDA) ... he is the 19th different Navy football player to receive the award ... played and started all 12 contests ... closed out the season with 54 tackles, including 5 tackles for loss, a sack, a pass breakup, a fumble recovery and a pair of forced fumbles ... Navy’s defense held Army, the second-leading rushing team in the country (304.4 yds/gm), to just 125 yards on the ground and 153 yards of total offense (avg 385.5 yds/gm) for the entire game ... Navy held the Black Knights without an offensive touchdown until overtime ... turned in 5 tackles against Army, including 4 solo stops ... Navy’s defense held UCF to 84 yards rushing after the Knights came in ranked #5 nationally with their 249.5 rushing yards per game average ... additionally, the Mids tallied a season-high tying 5 sacks for the third time in 2022 and the second-consecutive game ... part of a defensive unit that did not surrender a point in the second half against Notre Dame, marking the first time it has held a team scoreless in the second half since the 2021 Army game ... Notre Dame mustered just 66 yards rushing, the fewest by the Irish in the series since they rushed for 60 yards on Nov. 7, 2009 ... Navy held the Irish to just 12 yards in the second half (-23 R, 35 P) ... the Mids recorded a season-high tying 5 sacks against Notre Dame ... tallied 4 tackles against the Irish ... posted 4 tackles at Cincinnati ... Navy’s defense held Temple to just 20 yards rushing, the fourth fewest in the Niumatalolo era and the third time in 2022 Navy has held an opponent to 25 or fewer yards rushing (13 by Delaware, 25 by Tulsa) ... despite Temple allowing just 4 sacks all year, Navy sacked the Owls 4 times ... Navy’s defense also forced Temple to punt 7 times, tying (Delaware) for the most by an opponent in 2022 ... recorded 5 tackles, including half a tackle for loss against the Owls ... led the Mids in tackles against Houston with a career-high 12 stops, including half a tackle for loss ... also forced a fumble ... member of a Navy defenisve unit that held Tulsa to just 25 yards rushing ... the Mids recorded their first safety (intentional grounding in the end zone by Tulsa QB Davis Brin // 2Qtr) since the Tulane game on Sept. 19, 2020 ... Navy forced 4 Tulsa turnovers (3 interceptions / 1 fumble) ... part of a defense that held Air Force, the nation’s top-ranked rushing team (412.2 yds/gm), to just 200 yards on the ground ... turned in 5 tackles against the Falcons, including a tackle for loss ... along with Jianni Woodson-Brooks, led the Mids with 7 tackles at East Carolina ... recovered an ECU fumble, the first of his career ... his lone tackle in the AAC opener against Memphis went for a sack of 8 yards and forced QB Seth Henigan to fumble ... it was Gibbons’ first-career sack, first-career forced fumble and just his second pass breakup ... anchored a defense that produced 12 tackles for loss and 5 sacks in the opener against Delaware ... the 12 TFLs were the most by Navy since recording 12 against Rice on Oct. 22, 2005, while the 5 sacks were the most since their 5 against USF on Oct. 19, 2019 ... he recorded 8 tackles and a career-high 2 tackles for loss in the loss to Delaware.
• 2021: A starter in each of the last 7 contests, he saw action in 8 of the 12 games ... closed out the year with 35 tackles, including a tackle for loss, and broke up a pass ... part of a defensive unit that held Army scoreless in the second half, marking the first time Navy has shut out an opponent in the second half since its remarkable victory over Tulane in which the Mids outscored the Green Wave 27-0 to win 27-24 on Sept. 19, 2020 ... Navy also held Army, the No. 2-ranked rushing offense in the country averaging 301.2 yards per game, to just 124 yards rushing ... it was the Black Knights’ second-lowest rushing output during the season (108 vs. Air Force) ... turned in 6 tackles in the win over Army and recorded his first-career pass breakup ... contributed 4 tackles at Temple ... Navy’s defense held Temple to just 182 yards of total offense, the fewest by an opponent on the year ... the 14 points by Temple are the fewest by the Owls in the series since losing to Navy 42-6 in Annapolis on Nov. 18, 2006 ... produced a then career-high 10 tackles against East Carolina, including 7 solo stops (came into the game with 15 tackles on the year) ... turned in a then career-high 5 tackles, including 4 solo stops at Notre Dame ... pitched in a solo tackle in Navy’s win at Tulsa ... part of a defense that held #2 Cincinnati to just 271 yards (95R, 176P), the fewest yards by the Bearcats since Nov. 17, 2019 vs. Temple (stretched 19 games) ... the 271 yards of total offense by Cincinnati were the second fewest by a Navy opponent this season (225 by Air Force), while the 95-yard ground gain was the second-fewest rushing yards by an opponent this season (80 by SMU) and the 176 yards passing also marked the second fewest by an opponent in 2021 (49 by Air Force) ... also held Cincinnati to 27 points, the second fewest by the Bearcats during the regular season (beat Notre Dame 24-13) ... the Bearcats came into the game averaging 43.5 points (No. 6 nationally) ... recorded 3 tackles against Cincinnati, including his first-collegiate tackle for loss ... made his first-career start in the Mids’ Thursday night contest at Memphis where he turned in a pair of tackles ... made his collegiate debut in the Houston game where he recorded 4 tackles.
• 2020: Did not see any varsity action.
• High School / Personal: A 2020 graduate of St. Augustine High School in San Diego, Calif., Gibbons was a two-sport athlete who earned letters in football (3) and lacrosse (4) ... two-time (2018, ‘19) First-Team All-Western League football selection ... garnered Second-Team All-CIF recognition in football his senior year ... led the football team to the D-I CIF Championship in 2018 and the Western League title in 2019 ... named a 2019 High School Academic All-American in lacrosse ... recipient of St. Augustine’s Athletic Gold Medal for both football and lacrosse ... father, Andrew, is a 1993 graduate of the Naval Academy and a Captain in the United States Navy ... son of Capt. Andrew and Kim Gibbons ... majoring in ocean engineering ... outstanding student, he carries a 3.55 grade-point average.
