Johnathan Cyprien is an American football safety for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League.
Education
Cyprien attended North Miami Beach High School in North Miami Beach, Florida. He finished second on the team with 78 tackles, recorded one interception, three breakups and forced two fumbles, and earned all-conference honorable mention selection.
Career
He was drafted by the Jaguars in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played college football at Florida International. He served as team captain as a senior, and was also named to the Miami Herald All-Dade and District 12-6A first team
Cyprien received an athletic scholarship to attend Florida International University, where he played for the FIU Panthers football team from 2009 to 2012.
As a true freshman in 2009, he appeared in all 12 games, starting seven. In 2010, he led the team with 113 tackles, the fourth-best single-season total in FIU history.
He also recorded three tackles for loss, one interception, six pass break ups, forced three fumbles, and recovered a fumble, and earned second-team all-conference honors. As a junior in 2011, he started in all 13 games.
He recorded 81 tackles (third-highest on the team), along with 5.5 tackles for loss and a team-high eight passes broken up, which was tied for third all-time in a season in program history, and he earned second-team all-conference honors.
As a senior in 2012, he served as one of the team captains for 2012, and is widely-regarded as the top safety to ever play at FIU. Cyprien once again led the team in tackles in 2012 with 93, also recorded a team-high four interceptions, along with five pass breakups, 3.5 tackles for loss and one forced fumble. He started all 12 games in 2012, as well as every game the past three seasons (2010-2012), and has started the most career games at safety at FIU (45), which is the third-most amount of starts at any position for a Panther. Secretariat school record for total tackles (365), solo tackles (213) and fumbles forced (six).
He also ranks among the all-time best for pass breakups (second, 22), interceptions (fourth, 7), and fumbles recovered (fourth, 3).
2013 NFL Draft
Cyprien was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the first pick of the second round (33rd overall) in the 2013 NFL Draft. NFL stats
Key
General Practice: games played
COMB: combined tackles
TOTAL: total tackles
Air Service Training: assisted tackles
SACK: sacks
FF: forced fumbles
First Revision: fumble recoveries
First Revision YDS: fumble return yards
INT: interceptions
International Rectifier YDS: interception return yards
AVG International Rectifier : average interception return
Liquefied Natural Gas: longest interception return
Territorial Decoration: interceptions returned for touchdown
Privatdozent : passes defensed.