2017 Football Roster
Roster
Daniel Imatorbhebhe
- Position:
- Tight End
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 235
- Class:
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Suwanee, GA
- High School:
- North Gwinnett HS
CAREER: In his career, he has 25 receptions for 394 yards (15.8 avg) with 4 TDs. He has appeared in 22 games in his career, with 9 starts.
2020: Imatorbhebhe, an equally skilled blocker and receiver who missed the last 2 seasons with an injury, will compete to make an impact at tight end as a sixth-year senior in 2020. His waiver for a sixth year of eligibility was granted by the NCAA.
2019: Imatorbhebhe sat out 2019 while continuing to recover from a leg injury as a senior tight end.
2018: Imatorbhebhe sat out 2018 with a upper leg muscle injury as a junior tight end. He was held out of 2018 spring practice to rest a nagging hip injury. He won USC’s Community Service Award.
2017: Imatorbhebhe fought through an early-season injury to make an impact in the second half of his sophomore year in 2017. He suffered a hip flexor injury prior to the Stanford game and missed the next 5 games (Stanford, Texas, California, Washington State, Oregon State). Overall in 2017 while appearing in 9 games (all but Stanford, Texas, California, Washington State, Oregon State) and starting the last 4 (Colorado, UCLA, Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship Game and Ohio State), he had 8 catches for 144 yards (18.0 avg) and made 1 tackle.
He had a 12-yard catch against Western Michigan, 2 grabs for 25 yards against Arizona, 2 receptions for 34 yards versus UCLA, a 48-yard catch against Stanford in the Pac-12 Championship Game and 2 catches for 25 yards against Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl.
2016: Imatorbhebhe proved to be an effective tight end while seeing significant playing time as a redshirt freshman in 2016. Overall in 2016 while appearing in all 13 games (starting 5 times, versus Stanford, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, California), he had 17 catches for 250 yards (14.7 avg) with 4 TDs. He made 2016 Campus Insiders Freshman All-American second team and All-Pac-12 honorable mention.
He had a 7-yard catch against Utah State, 2 grabs for 45 yards, including a 32-yard TD, against Colorado, an 8-yard TD catch at Arizona, a 17-yard TD reception against California, 2 grabs for 37 yards against Oregon, 5 catches for 78 yards (both career highs), with an 8-yard TD, at Washington, 2 catches for 27 yards at UCLA and a 6-yard reception against Notre Dame. He had 2 catches for 25 yards against Penn State.
2015: A first-year freshman tight end, he sat out the 2015 season because of NCAA transfer rules. He transferred to USC in the fall of 2015 from Florida and was awarded a scholarship by virtue of an NCAA rule known as “blueshirting” (it allows a non-recruited student-athlete to receive athletic financial aid after beginning practice and have that student-athlete count towards the next year’s signing class if the school has reached its NCAA-maximum aid limit for the current year).
FLORIDA: He enrolled at Florida in the spring of 2015 after graduating a semester early from high school and participated in 2015 spring practice as a first-year freshman tight end.
HIGH SCHOOL: He had 32 catches for 487 yards (15.2 avg) with 8 TDs as a 2014 senior wide receiver at North Gwinnett High in Sugar Hill (Ga.). As a 2013 junior, he had 29 receptions for 358 yards (12.3 avg) with 2 TDs, helping North Gwinnett advance to the Class AAAAAA state championship game.
He also played basketball at North Gwinnett.
PERSONAL: He received his bachelor’s degree in social sciences (economics) in the summer of 2018 and is now working on a master’s degree in social entrepreneurship, with a graduate 3.23 GPA. He was born in Los Angeles, then moved to Virginia and Georgia. His brother, Josh, was a wide receiver at USC (2017-18) who now is a senior wideout at Illinois.
