2015: Starter at boundary corner first three games; started at safety since Mississippi State … career best 71 tackles this season ... graduate transfer from Michigan … made first Auburn start vs. Louisville, recording two tackles … ejected for targeting in first half of Jacksonville State game … four tackles, PBU at LSU … team-best nine tackles, 2 PBU, 1 TFL vs. Mississippi State … TFL, five tackles vs. San José State … six tackles at Kentucky … five tackles, PBU at Arkansas … interception, five tackles vs. Ole Miss … interception, five tackles at Texas A&M … seven tackles vs. Georgia … six stops, field goal block vs. Memphis in Birmingham Bowl ... Senior Bowl watch list

BEFORE AUBURN (at Michigan): started 30 games as a three-year letterman for the Wolverines ... named to Jim Thorpe, Bronko Nagurski watch lists ... all-Big Ten as a sophomore and junior ... recorded six interceptions as a sophomore, two vs. Notre Dame ... freshman all-Big Ten ... career-high 11 tackles vs. Virginia Tech in 2011

HIGH SCHOOL: played DB, WR and KR for Coach Bob Milloy at Our Lady of Good Counsel High in Blatimore ... 44 career PBU ... U.S. Army All-American Game ... first team all-state ... team won back-to-back Washington Catholic Athletic Conference titles ... Rivals second team All-America

PERSONAL: Birthday is August 8 ... son of Wendell and Melody Countess ... has a brother, Drew, and a sister, Marquise ... earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan in sport management ... working toward a master’s in adult education at Auburn