All-America and Sun Belt Conference Defensive Student-Athlete of the Year candidate … heart and soul of Appalachian State’s defense following the graduation of 2015 Sun Belt Defensive Student-Athlete of the Year Ronald Blair … teams with junior Eric Boggs to make up one of the nation’s top inside-linebacking tandems … enters his senior campaign tied for 20th among all active NCAA Division I FBS student-athletes with 236 total career tackles (most among all active Sun Belt student-athletes) … sure tackler rarely misses a stop … three-down player that has a nose for the ball against the run and pass … ranks third among all current Mountaineers with six career interceptions from his inside linebacker position … team leader that served as a captain as a junior in 2015 … is fully recovered from lower-body injury that kept him out of the 2015 Raycom Media Camellia Bowl.

2015: First-team all-Sun Belt Conference honoree … finished second on the team in tackles (72), tackles for loss (9.5) and sacks (4.0) … started all 12 regular-season games at inside linebacker but had a string of 25-consecutive starts snapped when he missed the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl due to a lower-body injury … tied for 25th in the Sun Belt with 6.0 tackles per game … also ranked among the conference leaders in sacks (ninth) and tackles for loss (12th) … was one of only four Sun Belt student-athletes to rank among the Sun Belt’s top 15 in both sacks and tackles for loss and top 25 in tackles … recorded multiple tackles in every game and notched at least six stops seven times in 12 contests … collected 8.5 of his 9.5 tackles for loss, three of his four sacks and 46 of his 72 total tackles over the first six contests of the season … after opening the season with eight tackles against Howard and six at Clemson, went on to lead the Mountaineers in stops in each of the next three games — seven at Old Dominion, 13 versus Wyoming and seven at Georgia State … recorded interceptions in back-to-back games against Clemson and ODU … named Sun Belt Defensive Student-Athlete of the Week after making seven stops and picking off a pass in the shutout win at Old Dominion … racked up 20 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and two sacks in two-game span versus Wyoming and GSU … his 13 tackles against Wyoming were a season-high and the fourth-highest total of his career … the outstanding performance against Wyoming also included a sack, 2.5 tackles for loss and a pass breakup … his seven stops in the Mountaineers’ 37-3 win at Georgia State were all of the solo variety and included two tackles for loss and a sack … capped his fantastic first half of the season with five tackles and a tackle for loss in 59-14 win at UL Monroe … slowed down a bit over the second half of the season as injuries limited his effectiveness … had four stops in nationally televised 31-13 win over archrival Georgia Southern … made seven tackles in defeat to eventual conference champion Arkansas State … had best performance of the second half of the season in home finale versus UL Lafayette, finishing with six tackles, a sack and a tackle for loss … made four stops in regular-season finale at South Alabama before being shut down due to the lower-body injury.

2014: Second-team all-Sun Belt Conference selection ... led Appalachian State and tied for 12th in the Sun Belt with 91 total tackles ... tied for second on the team with six tackles for loss ... tied for fifth on the squad with two sacks ... tied for second on the team with four pass breakups from his inside linebacker position ... tied for third on the team with two takeaways (one interception, one fumble recovery) ... started all 12 games at inside linebacker ... recorded at least three tackles in 11-of-12 games ... after a relatively slow start to the season (10 tackles in first two games of the campaign), exploded for 51 stops over the next five contests (eight at Southern Miss, 16 at Georgia Southern, 11 vs. South Alabama, eight vs. Liberty, eight at Troy) ... had 2.5 tackles for loss and a sack among his eight tackles at Southern Miss ... career-high 16 tackles at Georgia Southern were the most by a Mountaineer and the fifth-most by a Sun Belt player in 2014 ... had a pass breakup and a quarterback hurry to go along with 11 stops against South Alabama ... was in on 1.5 tackles for loss at Troy ... made just one tackle against Georgia State but also had an interception and a 17-yard fumble recovery in the 44-0 win ... recorded a sack in come-from-behind win over UL Monroe ... tallied nine tackles in impressive 35-16 victory at eventual New Orleans Bowl champion UL Lafayette ... closed the season with 14 tackles against Idaho ... was named Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Week following 14-tackle performance in the season finale.

2013: Appeared in all 12 games but was limited to nine starts due to a spate injuries over the second half of the season ... ranked third on team with 71 tackles ... led team and tied for Southern Conference lead with three interceptions ... also led team with four total takeaways (three INT, one fumble recovery) ... earned NCAA Division I FCS freshman all-America recognition from College Sports Journal ... named to SoCon all-freshman team ... opened the season by tallying 12 or more tackles in each of the first three games (12 at Montana, 14 vs. North Carolina A&T, 15 at Elon) ... became the first Appalachian State freshman with double-digit tackles in three-straight games since current Carolina Panther D.J. Smith in 2007 ... named SoCon Freshman of the Week after the 12-tackle performance in the opener at Montana, which included a sack and a big stop for no gain on fourth-and-one that thwarted a scoring opportunity early in the game ... in addition to the career-high 15 tackles at Elon, he also had two interceptions and a fumble recovery in the win over the Phoenix, en route to being named the SoCon Defensive Player of the Week ... became the first Mountaineer linebacker with two interceptions in a game since Tony Brown versus Mississippi College in 1991 ... became the first Mountaineer, regardless of position, with three takeaways in a game since Mark LeGree notched three inteceptions against Wofford in 2008 ... added nine tackles the following week against Charleston Southern ... was named the SoCon Defensive Player of the Month for September after registering 50 tackles, two interceptions and a fumble recovery in four games ... opened October with seven tackles and a forced fumble at The Citadel ... production began to slip the next week when he began to be plagued by a variety of lower-body injuries ... after recording 57 tackles in the first five games of the season, managed just 14 stops over the final seven contests ... finished the season on a strong note with his third interception of the season at Georgia and five tackles (his most in eight games) in the finale against Western Carolina.

2012: Made the travel squad as a true freshman and appeared in the first three games of the season before sustaining a severe ankle injury while exiting the team bus upon arrival at the hotel for the fourth game of the year at Chattanooga … missed the rest of the season due to the freak injury … applied for and received a medical redshirt from the NCAA.

High School: Rated a two-star prospect by Rivals.com … collected prestigious first-team Atlanta all-city honors after making 140 tackles with three sacks, two interceptions and two forced fumbles as a junior in 2010 ... made 80 tackles in just five games as a senior before his final prep campaign was cut short due to an ankle injury ... participated in 2011 Georgia High School Senior All-Star Bowl at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta … coached by Ronnie Millen … received Coca-Cola Golden Helmet Award for athletic and academic achievement as a senior ... attended same high school as former Appalachian State all-America defensive end and current member of the Arena Football League’s Las Vegas Outlaws Jabari Fletcher.

Personal: Full name is John Lewis Law, Jr. ... born July 31, 1994 (22 years old) ... son of Jimmeta Battle and John Law, Sr. ... enjoys rock climbing ... majoring in health promotion with a minor in recreational management.