Kpassagnon laughs about it today. A 2012 Wissahickon and 2017 Villanova graduate, Kpassagnon has grown a little since his high school days, listed at 6-7, 290 pounds.
“Yeah,” he says, “I can say my football career started by bumping into someone in a high school hallway and wound up here.”
Here is Sunday, where Kpassagnon, or “TK,” will line up as the starting left defensive end for the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chief in Super Bowl LV against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Raymond James Stadium.
“I honestly didn’t see any of this happening for me, until my senior year at Villanova,” said Kpassagnon, who this past season made 28 total tackles and 20 solos during the regular season, with 1 sack, and has made two tackles and one major sack in the playoffs, taking down Buffalo Bills’ quarterback Josh Allen for an 18-yard sack in the AFC Championship. “I went to one football camp going into my senior year of high school and that was Villanova, and they offered me a scholarship.