2017 Football Roster
Sep 20 (Sat)
8:15 p.m.
Eddy Lopez
- Position:
- Tight End
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 300
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- El Paso, Texas
- High School:
- Coronado
AT COLORADO: This Season (Jr.)—Used in CU’s jumbo package and helped running back Phillip Lindsay score eight rushing touchdowns in the first six weeks of the season … At the conclusion of spring practices he was moved from the defensive line over to tight end.
2016 (Soph.-RS)—Though he did not see game action, he did dress for the first three contests of the year.
2015 (Soph.)—He played in just the first three games (no starts), missing the remainder of the season due to a foot injury ... Was in for 21 snaps from scrimmage and had a quarterback pressure against Massachusetts for his only statistic on the season ... He had five tackles in the four main spring scrimmages, three coming in the spring game (including a quarterback sack and a tackle for zero gain).
2014 (Fr.)—He saw action in 11 games, playing for the first time in the second game of the season at Massachusetts and then in every game for the remainder of the season … In 123 snaps from scrimmage, he recorded 10 tackles (five solo), with one quarterback chasedown (near-sack) … Played 14 snaps at UMass in his first game, with a season-high 22 at USC, when he recorded two assisted tackles … Had two tackles three other times (one solo, one assist), against Washington, Arizona and Oregon.
HIGH SCHOOL—A two-year starter at defensive tackle, as a senior, he earned first-team All-District 1-5A and first-team All-City honors along with the El Paso Times naming him as the co-defensive player of the year; he was second-team All-District as a junior … As a senior, he was in on 69 tackles (42 solo), with 16 for losses including four quarterback sacks; he pressured 31 throws by opposing quarterbacks … He was in on 41 tackles as a junior, with 21 of his 27 solo tackles behind the line of scrimmage, including three-and-a-half sacks; he had 23 quarterback hurries, a fumble recovery, a pass broken up and a blocked kick … He was a part-time starter at fullback and tight end as a sophomore (no defense), rushing once for 15 yards ... Top games as a senior: in a 59-0 win over Socorro, he had a career-high 10 tackles, three for losses including a sack with five hurries; in a 24-23 win over Montwood, he had six tackles (two TFLs) and seven hurries … His top game as a junior came in a 41-7 win over Hanks, when he had six tackles, all for losses (three sacks, three TFLs) and also had six hurries … Under coach Bob Anderson, Coronado was 8-3 his senior year, 4-6 his junior season and 4-7 his sophomore year … He also lettered three times in basketball, playing both power forward and center his freshman through junior years, though mostly was a reserve performer.
ACADEMICS—He is majoring in Sociology at Colorado … He had the equivalent of a 3.1 grade point average in high school.
PERSONAL—He was born July 29, 1996 in El Paso, Texas (he is the last member of CU’s 2014 recruiting class to turn 21) … Hobbies include snowboarding, paintball and playing golf (though he’s only been playing since his junior year in high school, he already breaks 90 regularly) … His prep coach, Bob Anderson, had this to say of him after he was named co-defensive player of the year: “There weren't too many people that could block him. He was getting double- and triple-teamed because he was that big of a force for us."
