2026 Football Roster
Jersey Number 16
Tanner Heckel
- Position:
- DB
- Class:
- Junior
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 195
- Major:
- Accountancy
- Hometown:
- Lyndon, Kan.
- High School:
- Lyndon
Pronunciation: HECK-uhl
2025 Sophomore
- CSC Academic All-District
- Academic All-Big Ten
- Played in all 12 regular season games with eight starts
- 34 tackles (24 solo) with 2.5 tackles for loss, 1.0 sacks, one interception, two pass breakups, and one forced fumble
- Four tackles (three solo) and a pass breakup at Washington (10/25/25)
- Career-high-tying five tackles (three solo) in win vs. #21 USC (9/27/25)
- Career-high five tackles (four solo) at #19 Indiana (9/20/25)
- First-career sack and interception in Illinois win at Duke (9/6/25)
2024 Freshman
- Played in all 13 games as a true freshman, primarily on special teams
- Two tackles (one solo) on the season
High School
- Played for head coach Michael Massey at Lyndon
- Led Lyndon to a 13-0 record and the program's first-ever Kansas Eight-Man Division I State Championship as a senior, while outscoring opponents 267-46 during five state playoff wins
- 2023 Kansas 8-Man Offensive Player of the Year
- 2023 Kansas 8-Man Division I All-State
- 81 tackles and seven interceptions as a senior, while also adding 2,313 rushing yards, 1,062 passing yards, and 69 total touchdowns (50 rushing, 19 passing)
- Won the Kansas state title in the long jump (22 feet, 11.5 inches) and triple jump (45 feet, 2.75 inches), while also finishing second in the 100-meter dash (10.96), and third in the javelin as a junior
- Led Inman High School to two straight Class 1A state runner-up finishes before transferring to Lyndon, after his mother, Megan, took the girls’ basketball head coaching job at Lyndon
- Three-time all-state in basketball
Personal
- Majoring in accountancy
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