Joseph is a proud graduate of West Orange-Stark High in Texas, a perennial contender in the world of high school football in the Lone Star State.
“I’ve been playing football my whole life,” he said. “I’m from Texas and it’s just a way of life down there. You’re raised up in it and I come from a football family. I originally was a basketball player growing up, but Earl Thomas (an All-American at Texas and first-round draft pick of Seattle in 2010 who played 10 NFL seasons with the Seahawks and Ravens) is my first cousin and once he made it to the NFL, it flipped a switch with me and made that seem more realistic for me, so I locked in on football after that.
“Basketball was my first love, but I locked in with football my sophomore year of high school. I started getting more serious and recruiting started to pick up. I still loved basketball, but I didn’t have a lot of time to spend in the basketball gym – I was always on the field.
“I lost two games all of my time in high school. I went to the winningest high school in the state of Texas, and a lot of guys have come up out of there. Our senior and junior year we won back-to-back state championships, and my sophomore year we lost in the state championship game. As a senior, I think we only gave up 69 points throughout the whole season, while we scored more than a thousand and I was the MVP – it was really a cool year.
“The thing that made my high school special is that the whole team all grew up playing together with one another so it was penciled in for all of us. We all knew the goal -- we knew what we wanted and we worked pretty hard to get it.”
Joseph also had a terrific career at Memphis, earning all-American Athletic Conference honors last season. In three years, he recorded 117 tackles, 18.0 tackles for loss and 10.5 quarterback sacks, and was part of some great moments for Memphis Tiger football.
“The 2019 season going to the Cotton Bowl, that was an exciting year,” he recalled. “The Cotton Bowl was fun and a great time. We had a lot of big-time games that season, we had College GameDay come to Memphis when we played SMU – those were great experiences.
“I initially signed at UTSA and played one game there, but I transferred to junior college at Iowa Western. That went pretty well. I had a dominant season there and played with some great guys.
“I went to Memphis because they believed in me – it was a no-brainer when I went up there, how it felt and how the coaches understood me. It’s been a longer way around than some, but it’s all God’s plan. And now I’m here.”
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