Career
• A four-year letter winner for the Cats
• Played in 48 games with 31 starts
• Totaled 193 career tackles, 26.5 tackles for loss, 6.0 sacks, three pass breakups, a forced fumble and a fumble recovered
• SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll (2024)
• Dean List (Spring 2024)
• First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll (2022)

2025 – Senior
• Started in all 10 games played … Missed two with injury
• Third on the team in tackles with 61
• Also finished with a team-high tying 7.0 tackles for loss and six quarterback hurries, 2.5 sacks (second on the team) and one PBU
• Named one of four game captains vs. Ole Miss and at Auburn
• Had a TFL in nine straight games which tied the second-longest streak in school history … Tied for second with Jeremy Jarmon, who had nine straight games with a TFL in 2006-07
• Was a pass-rush terror in the win at Auburn as he tied career highs with 2.5 tackles for loss for -13 yards and 1.5 QB sacks (-11) … he also totaled six tackles, added a career-high three QB hurries and had a pass breakup
• Saw limited action vs. Florida after an injury sidelined him early in the first quarter
• Did not see action vs. Tennessee Tech with injury, the first game to miss in his career
• Missed the Vanderbilt game with injury
• Got his fifth career double-figure tackle game with 11 vs. Louisville … Also notched a TFL and two quarterback hurries
• Butkus Award Watch List
• Preseason Fourth Team All-SEC (Athlon, Phil Steele)
• Elected to represent UK at SEC Media Days

2024 – Junior
• Saw action in all 12 games with six starts vs. South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Murray State, Texas and Louisville
• Third on the team in total tackles (62)
• Led the team in tackles for loss with 11.0
• Also had 1.5 sacks, a pass breakup and a quarterback hurry
• Had a 2.5 tackles for loss (-11 yards), including 1.5 quarterback sacks (-9), both career highs, vs. Florida
• Got a career-high 10 tackles at Tennessee and vs. Louisville
• Moved to inside linebacker after seeing action as a defensive back his first two seasons
• Dean’s List (Spring 2024)

2023 – Sophomore
• Started in 12 of 13 games played in 2023
• Totaled 49 tackles, 5.5 for loss, 1.0 sack, one quarterback hurry, one pass breakup, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery this season
• Had a career-high nine tackles, including five solo tackles and one tackle for loss (-1 yard) in the win over Florida … Had two tackles on third down that forced punts, plus a fourth-down stop that turned over the ball on downs
• Had eight tackles and a career-high tying 1.5 tackles for loss in the season opener vs. Ball State … Forced a fumble on the UK 34 in the second quarter, helping Kentucky record its first scoop-and-score since 2019
• Got a fumble recovery vs. EKU
• Totaled four tackles, a sack and his first career pass breakup vs. Mississippi State
• Had five tackles in the win over No. 9 Louisville and vs. Clemson in the Gator Bowl

2022 (Freshman)
• Played in all 13 games with three starts
• Totaled 21 tackles, 3.0 tackles for loss, 1.0 sack and one quarterback hurry
• Charted his first collegiate sack in the season opener vs. Miami Ohio … Totaled six tackles in his debut and also shared a tackle for loss in addition to the sack
• Led UK with five tackles in the win over Youngstown State … Also had a tackle for loss
• Earned his first collegiate start and recorded three tackles in the win over Northern Illinois
• Named to First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll

High School
• Rated a four-star by Rivals, 247Sports and on3.com
• 247sports ranked him as the No. 214 overall player in the nation and No. 9 athlete
• Ranked as the No. 34 cornerback in the nation and No. 12 player in Ohio by Rivals
• on3 had him No. 25 nationally and No. 12 in Ohio
• Named first-team Division I All-Ohio by the Ohio Prep Sportswriters Association and first-team All-City Division I by the Southwest Ohio Football Coaches Association in 2021 after leading the Firebirds to an 11-2 overall record
• Had 60 tackles and six touchdowns as a senior
• Helped Lakota West win the Greater Miami Conference as a junior with 16 tackles and pair of interceptions, one for a touchdown
• Earned first -team All-Conference, All-Southwest Ohio and All-State honors
• Coached by Tom Bolden
• Participated in the Under Armour All-American camp last summer
• Also a two-year letter winner in basketball as a small forward
• Selected UK over Michigan State and Cincinnati

Personal
• Last name rhymes with “safari”
• Born in Pordenone, Italy
• Son of Mary Acheampong who originated from Ghana
• Has two brothers, David and Sam
• Brother, David, is Lakota West’s second all-time leading rusher who played two seasons at Miami (Ohio) before transferring to Northern Colorado in 2022 … Brother, Sam, is a freshman sprinter on the track team at Morehead State
• On track to graduate in the Spring of ’26 with a degree in communication

Alex Says
• His nickname is “A2”
• He chose Kentucky because of the people
• Three words to describe him are humble, respectful, and funny
• The one thing most people don’t know about him is that he speaks fluent Twi (a dialect of the Akan language spoken in southern and central Ghana)
• His favorite family recipe that he likes to eat and make is jollof rice