Eastern Washington University Athletics

2019: He started five of the 12 games he played, making the first start of his career at Washington (8/31/19). For the season, Lang had 38 tackles and three passes broken up, in addition to a fumble forced and fumble recovered. The former walk-on had just six tackles in six previous games as an Eagle special teams player entering the 2019 season. But he had a huge game in EWU’s 54-21 victory over Northern Colorado (10/12/19). Starting his fifth game as an Eagle – but first in three weeks – he had a career-high seven tackles, a forced fumble, a pass broken up and a 34-yard fumble return for a touchdown which opened the floodgates to help EWU open a 40-0 lead at halftime. His forced fumble on a kickoff earlier in the quarter led to an Eastern field goal. On its way to a dominating 637-352 advantage in offense – 409-112 in the first half alone -- Eastern established a new school record for consecutive home victories (12 at the time) at the current site of Roos Field (formerly Woodward Field), plus extended a long winning streak to 12 over UNC. Two of his passes broken up came versus Jacksonville State (9/14/19) early in the year. He was EWU’s special teams player of the week against both Sacramento State (10/5/19) and Cal Poly (11/16/19).
 
2018: Played in five games, including a pair of games in the FCS Playoffs. He had six tackles on the season, including a pair versus Cal Poly (9/22/18).
 
2017: Was a non-lettering squad member.
 
2016: Redshirted. Was selected as the team’s defensive scout team player of the week once.
 
HS: Graduated from Royal HS in 2016. Earned first team 1A All-State honors from Associated Press as a senior defensive back and was honorable mention as a 1,000-yard running back. He capped his career by playing in the Earl Barden All-Star Classic in June of 2016, an all-star game with the top 2A, 1A and 2B seniors in the state of Washington. He rushed for two touchdowns and returned an interception 58 yards for a touchdown as Royal completed an undefeated (14-0) season with a 28-7 win over Kings in the championship game of the State 1A Playoffs. He rushed for 64 yards and caught two passes for 25 yards, and had a pair of interceptions in the game. He also competed in track and field in high school and holds Royal school records in the triple jump with a mark of 45-10 and the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.80. He won the title as a senior in the long jump (21-9 1/4) and triple jump (42-0) at the State 1A Championships in 2016 at EWU. As a junior he was runner-up in the hurdles and triple jump, and placed third in the long jump.
 
Personal: Criminal justice major. Born 10/19/97 in Moses Lake, Wash. Will turn 23 two days after EWU plays Idaho. Parkens are Dick and Kathleen Lang.
 

Year	GP	TT	Hi	S	TL-Yds	FF-FR	PBU	I-Yds
2017	1	1	1	0	0-0	0-0	0	0-0
2018	5	5	2	0	0-0	0-0	0	0-0
2019	12	38	7	0	1-3	1-1	3	0-0
Totals	18	44	7	0	1-3	1-1	3	0-0