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2024 NIU Football Roster

Michael Hickey
Brian Dempsey
Stephen Blue
Lon Horwedel
Scott Walstrom, NIU

0 Skyler Gill-Howard

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 285
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Position Defensive Tackle
  • Hometown Milwaukee, Wis.
  • High School Greenfield
  • Prev School Upper Iowa

Biography

2023
• Played in every game in 2023 as a back-up at defensive tackle.
• Finished the season with 24 tackles, 15 solo, four tackles for loss, a quarterback sack and a pass break-up.
• Credited with at least one stop in the Huskies’ last 12 games of the season.
• Recovered a fumble at Nebraska (9-16) to go with a pair of stops. 
• Recorded his first career sack in the Huskies’ shutout of Western Michigan (11-14). 
• Made a season-high five stops at Central Michigan (10-31) with a tackle for loss. 
• Had three tackles and a tackle for loss against Ball State (11-7). 
• Credited with two tackles at Kent State (11-25).
• Totaled three solo tackles and broke up a pass at Akron (10-7). 
• Posted a tackle for loss with two stops at Toledo (9-30). 
• Made first tackle at NIU against Southern Illinois (9-9).
• Earned Academic All-MAC honors.

2022
•    Did not see any game action in his first season at NIU.
•    Named the defensive futures player of the year following the season. 

AT UPPER IOWA (2021)
•    Appeared in four games as a defensive lineman at Upper Iowa.
•    Registered three tackles, two solo, on the season.

HIGH SCHOOL
Honors and Awards
•    Received All-Region and All-State recognition in 2020 and 2021.
•    Selected first team all-conference four times.
•    Earned Team MVP honors as a senior. 
•    Four-year varsity letterwinner.
•    Team captain as a sophomore, junior and senior.

Academic & Sport/Club Involvement
•    Qualified for the honor roll all four years of high school. 
•    Two-time runner-up in the Wisconsin state wrestling tournament.  

PERSONAL
•    Son of Geraldo Howard.
•    A marketing major.

Statistics

Season:
2024

Season Statistics

Season Statistics

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Career Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 58

    2022Redshirt Freshman

    Defensive Tackle
    6'1" 240 lbs
    58
  • 58

    2023Redshirt Sophomore

    Defensive Tackle
    6'1" 285 lbs
    58
  • 0

    2024Redshirt Junior

    Defensive Tackle
    6'1" 285 lbs
    0