Team-voted leader with power-first upside on NAU’s defensive front
Richard Kwete is a 6-foot-3, 250-pound defensive lineman for Northern Arizona who was voted one of the Lumberjacks’ distinguished team leaders in 2024, a strong signal of trust and toughness. He arrived as a high-school prospect with verified production at Sunnyslope, where he posted 34 career tackles, 3.0 tackles for loss, and 4.0 sacks, and NAU listed him as a spring 2024 defensive front contributor. The appeal here is the combination of size, leadership, and blue-collar edge—he looks like the kind of DL who can fit a physical scheme and earn snaps by doing the dirty work.
