Western Illinois University Athletics

At Western Illinois
2008 (Senior season): Started all 11 games at left tackle... earned all-conference first team honors... named conference lineman of the week once... was part of a line that allowed less than one sack per game... blocked for the country's leading rusher and the seventh-best rushing offense in the nation (251.55 ypg)... earned the Leathernecks' Wes Stevens Offensive Lineman of the Year Award.

2007 (Junior season): Started 10 times at left tackle after missing the season opener... was an integral part of the nation’s 11th-ranked rushing offense, averaging 255.6 yards per game... helped block for the league’s leading rusher, Herb Donaldson (1,491 yards)... anchored an offensive line that allowed just 1.36 sacks per game, the second-lowest figure in the league.

2006 (Sophomore season): Appeared in five games - three non-conference games and the final two contests of the season.

2005 (Redshirt-Freshman season): Appeared in seven games at left tackle... started against Iowa Wesleyan.

2004 (Freshman season): Redshirted

High School
A two-time all-conference pick... earned first-team honors as a senior... named to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel All-State Team... selected to play in the All-Star Shrine Bowl... led his school to its first-ever playoff berth. 

Personal
Son of Odis and Lori Polk... born April 8, 1986... major is exercise science.