Willie Lampkin

  • Pos IOL
  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 290

Prospect Info

  • High School Lakeland
  • City Lakeland, FL
  • Exp 2023 - ...

North Carolina Tar Heels

  • Jersey #53
  • Class SR

As a Transfer

247Sports Transfer Rankings

88

As a Prospect

247Sports

80
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H.S. Athletic Background

2022 All-Sun Belt First Team
2022 Pro Football Focus (PFF) College All-Sun Belt First Team
2022 Preseason All-Sun Belt First Team
2022 Rimington Trophy Preseason Watch List
2022 Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List
2022 Phil Steele Preseason SBC All-Conference First Team
2022 Athlon Sports Preseason All-Sun Belt First Team
2022 Pro Football Focus (PFF) College Preseason All-Sun Belt Second Team
2022 Pro Football Network (PFN) College Football Preseason All-American Honorable Mention
2021 All-Sun Belt Second Team
2021 Phil Steele Sun Belt Conference All-Conference Second Team
2021 Pro Football Focus (PFF) College Football All-Sun Belt Third Team
2021 Pro Football Network (PFN) All-Sun Belt Honorable Mention
2021 Preseason All-Sun Belt Second Team
2021 Pro Football Focus (PFF) College Football Preseason All-Sun Belt Second Team
2021 Phil Steele Preseason SBC All-Conference Second Team
2021 Athlon Sports Preseason All-Sun Belt Second Team
2020 FWAA Freshman All-American
2020 ESPN's College Football True Freshman All-American
2020 247Sports True Freshman All-American
The Athletic's 2020 College Football Freshman All-American
2020 Phil Steele SBC All-Conference Third Team
2020 All-Sun Belt Second Team
2020 FWAA Freshman All-American Watch List

2022 (Junior)

Earned a spot on the 2022 All-Sun Belt first team
Named to the 2022 Pro Football Focus (PFF) College All-Sun Belt first team
Voted to the 2022 preseason All-Sun Belt first team
Named to the 2022 Rimington Trophy preseason watch list
Earned a spot on the 2022 Phil Steele preseason SBC All-Conference first team
Named to the 2022 Athlon Sports preseason All-Sun Belt first team
Received 2022 Pro Football Focus (PFF) College preseason All-Sun Belt second team honors
Tabbed a 2022 Pro Football Network (PFN) College Football preseason All-American honorable mention selection
Moved from guard to center in spring practice

2021 (Sophomore)

Earned a spot on the All-Sun Belt second team
Named to the 2021 Phil Steele Sun Belt Conference All-Conference second team
A 2021 Pro Football Focus (PFF) College Football All-Sun Belt third-team honoree
A 2021 Pro Football Network (PFN) All-Sun Belt Honorable Mention selection
Played in and started all 13 games at right tackle for the Chanticleers
Was the top-graded offensive lineman in eight different games on the season
Totaled 20 knockdown blocks on the year
Was the best offensive lineman in the 2021 Tailgreeter Cure Bowl win over Northern Illinois (Dec. 17), grading out at a team-high 98 percent with two knockdown blocks over 58 offensive snaps
Was the top-rated CCU offensive lineman at 97 percent in the blowout home win over UMass (Sept. 25)
Graded out at 97 percent over 60 offensive snaps in the road win at Georgia Southern (Nov. 6)
Also the top-graded lineman at 94 percent with three knockdown blocks over 53 plays in the home win over ULM (Oct. 2)
Played all 75 plays and graded out at 96 percent with one pancake block in the road win at South Alabama (Nov. 26)
Graded out at 95 percent with two knockdowns over 43 snaps in the season-opening win over The Citadel (Sept. 2)
Was graded at 93 percent along the offensive line in the road win at Arkansas State (Oct. 7)
Played 63 snaps on offense, tallying one knockdown block in the home victory over Kansas (Sept. 10)
Added one knockdown block over all 62 offensive snaps in the road win at Buffalo (Sept. 18)
Was on the field for all 55 offensive snaps for Coastal in the road game at Appalachian State (Oct. 20)
Registered two pancake blocks in three-straight games - versus Troy (Oct. 28), at Georgia Southern (Nov. 6), and against Georgia State (Nov. 13)
Tallied three knockdowns and graded out at 92 percent while playing 76 snaps in the home win over Texas State (Nov. 20)
A 2021 Preseason All-Sun Belt second-team selection
Landed on the 2021 Pro Football Focus (PFF) College Football Preseason All-Sun Belt second team
Earned a spot on the 2021 Phil Steele Preseason SBC All-Conference second team
Named to the 2021 Athlon Sports Preseason All-Sun Belt second team
Tabbed the team's Academic Player of the Week for the week of Nov. 12

2020 (Freshman)

Named to the 2020 FWAA Freshman All-American team
Earned a spot on ESPN's 2020 College Football True Freshman All-American team
Tabbed a 2020 247Sports True Freshman All-American
Named to The Athletic's 2020 College Football Freshman All-American team
Earned a spot on the 2020 Phil Steele Sun Belt All-Conference third team
Named to the 2020 All-Sun Belt second team
Played in and started all 12 games at left guard
A key member of the offensive line that was a semifinalist for the Joe Moore Award which is presented annually to the nation's top offensive line unit
Helped to pave the way for a top-20 rushing and scoring offense on the season
Allowed just one sack all season and graded out as PFF College's fourth-best freshman offensive lineman
Played every snap at left guard in wins over Kansas (Sept. 12), at then-No. 21 Louisiana (Oct. 14), versus Georgia Southern (Oct. 24), against South Alabama (Nov. 7), versus Appalachian State (Nov. 21), against then-No. 8 BYU (Dec. 5), at Troy (Dec. 12), and in the FBC Mortgage Cure Bowl versus No. 23 Liberty (Dec. 26)
Totaled 27 pancake blocks on the season, second-most on the team
Had four knockdown blocks in his first career game in the season-opener at Kansas
Recorded a season-high six knockdowns in the home win over No. 8 BYU
Totaled three pancake blocks in the home win over Arkansas State (Oct. 3) and on the road at Troy
Picked up two knockdowns in five other contests on the season
The Chanticleers' offense ranked first in the Sun Belt in scoring (37.2 ppg), second in total yards on the season (5,398), third in total yards per game (449.8), third in rushing (218.3 ypg), and fifth in passing (231.5 ypg)
The offense was also first in the conference and among the nation's leaders in third-down conversion percentage (52.3), fourth-down conversion percentage (76.5), and average time of possession per game (33:50)

High School

Rated a three-star recruit by ESPN
Also a three-star recruit for the Class of 2020 by 247Sports Composite
A two-star recruit on the offensive line by Rivals
Played on the offensive and defensive lines at Lakeland High School for head coach Bill Castle
Played his first two years in high school at Mulberry High School
Was a key part in the Dreadnaughts going 12-1 overall and finishing as a state runner-up in the 2019 FHSAA Class 7A Football state championship playoffs
Helped to lead Lakeland to the 2018 FHSAA Class 7A state championship title as a junior
Blocked for running back Demarkus Bowman, a Clemson commit and the second-best running back in the 2020 recruiting class by 247Sports and Rivals
Also lettered in wrestling where he won the 2020 FHSAA Class 2A state championship at 285 points with a perfect 47-0 record his senior year
He defeated Tampa Jesuit's Mason Arnold in the finals with a takedown in the final 34 seconds
Also secured a win during the season over Class 3A state champion Curtis Ruff of Sanford Seminole
Finished as the Class 3A state runner-up in 2018 as a junior, posting a record of 46-4 overall on the mat
Won his weight class with a perfect 9-0 record at the 2019 Disney Duals in June 2019
Was ranked as the No. 1 wrestler in Class 2A his senior year

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