AT SAN JOSE STATE: Second season with the Spartans...Offensive line prospect who joined the team for 2008 spring practice.

2008: Spent the season as a redshirt.

HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered in football (Coach Tom Horn) and basketball at George Mason High in Falls Church, Va....Two-time all-district and all-region selection...Served as a student trainer at George Mason High...Past recipient of the Most Outstanding Technical Award from the Arlington Career Center sports medicine course.

MORE ON BEN: Kinesiology major...Interested in a sports medicine career...Would like to become an orthropedic surgeon...The Vienna, Austria native was born on February 22, 1989.