UB has experienced new pressures this year from thinking the season was lost to top 25 expectations. With that comes the need for some levity.

Enter Malcolm Koonce.

"I can be a goofball at times," he said.

It's not just opposing quarterbacks that need their head on a swivel around him....

"The last time we took a flight, Taylor Riggins feel asleep and I shoved a few sour pieces in his mouth and woke him up,” said Koonce.

The edge rusher has been sour to QBs with his league leading four sacks in four games, but the second youngest of four boys started honing his abilities in rugby.

"I think that’s where I got a lot of my tackling skills from and just trying to be tough as possible. Like trying to power through those little injuries and stuff like that,” said Koonce.

The two-star recruit had the skills on the field, however, it was mentally maturing and dedicating himself to his coaches advice off of it that blossomed the all-MAC performer.

"I think when I first started lifting it was kind of just like, 'why am I doing this? I didn't come here to be an Olympic lifter. I came here to play football.' Then the older you get you realize if you bench more you're stronger on the field. If I squat more my first is faster, so when I came to the realization can help me, it helped me,” he said.

While Koonce gives full credit to the Bulls coaching staff, he's also earned a pass rushing doctorate from YouTube university.

"I'm obsessed with pass rush. Even when I first got to college or Milford I was sitting there watching YouTube videos of Von Miller, Vic Beasley in college, of Bud Dupree. I was watching a whole bunch of cut ups of those guys pass rush,” said Koonce.

Add it all together and you have a future NFL'er grinning from ear-to-ear when he earned an invite to the Reese's Senior Bowl. And remember how this story started: if you get roomed with Malcolm, be ready for the jokester.