Furman University

Honors & Awards
2025 Buck Buchanan Award Runner-Up
2025 FCS ADA National Defensive Player of the Year
2025 FCS ADA All-America (1st Team)
2025 Walter Camp Foundation All-America (1st Team(
2025 Stats Perform All-America (1st Team)
2025 AFCA All-America (1st Team)
2025 Associated Press All-America (1st Team)
2025 Football Central All-America (1st Team)
2025 All-Southern Conference (1st Team)

2024 — Earned playing time in eight games as a reserve...totaled 13 tackles, including one for-loss...had a pair of pass breakups and a blocked kick against Stetson...tallied a season high four tackles versus Chattanooga.

2023 — Made his collegiate debut against VMI (37-3 win), recording one tackle (for-loss)...awarded redshirt and extra year of eligibility.

High School: 2023 graduate of Cardinal Gibbons (4A) High School, where he was a teammate of Paladin tight end Brock Chappell...played defense end, tackle, and fullback...football coach was Steven Wright...helped lead Cardinal Gibbons to a pair of conference championships and state championship (16-0) in 2021, his junior year, defeating Chambers, 12-0, in championship game...team went 9-3 in 2022, his senior year, making second round of state playoffs...two-time all-state selection...named conference defensive player of the year as a junior and conference MVP his senior yer...named defensive MVP of in 919 vs. 252 All-Star Game.

Personal: Full name is Joshua Perry Stoneking...born March 20, 2005, in Cary, North Carolina...son of Jennifer and Anton Stoneking...has two brothers, Anton and Grant...father played football at Purdue...brother, Anton, played quarterback at Stonehill College...uncle, Brian Stoneking, was an All-America defensive lineman at Anderson (Ind.)...undeclared major.