Career Accolades

  • 2022 NFF Hampshire Honor Society
  • Three-time Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll (2019-21)
  • Greg Piers Award (2019)

As a Senior (2021)

  • Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
  • Stanford Offensive Scout Team Player of the Week (Week 5- Oregon)
  • Appeared in 10 games 
  • Made two tackles

As a Junior (2020)

  • Pac-12 All-Academic Honor Roll
  • Played in the final four games

As a Sophomore (2019)

  • Member of Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll
  • Greg Piers Award given to Most Outstanding Defensive Scout Team player
  • Played in two games
  • Made his career debut on special teams against Oregon (Sept. 21)

As a Freshman (2018)

  • Did not see action

Prior to Stanford 

  • Prepped at Cathedral Catholic (Calif.) under head coach Sean Doyle
  • 61 tackles and 5.5 sacks in seven games as a senior
  • Led team to 2016 state title
  • Also competed in baseball
  • CIF All-Academic
  • Junior class president

Personal

  • Full name is John Terrence Lynch
  • Son of Linda and John Lynch
  • Mother played tennis at USC
  • Father played football and baseball at Stanford
  • Father played 16 seasons in the NFL and was a nine-time Pro Bowler
  • Father is San Francisco 49ers general manager
  • Father was inducted into Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021
  • Has three siblings, Lindsay, Lilly and Leah
  • High school teammate of current Stanford teammate Logan Berzins