Furman University

Honors & Awards
2025 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll
2024 Southern Conference All-Freshman Team
2024 Southern Conference Academic Honor Roll

2024 — Registered playing time in all 11 games and posted starts at defensive tackle over the last five games...credited with 15 tackles, including 3.5 for-loss, two sacks, and a fumble recovery...top performance came came at VMI (4 tackles, 2 TFL, 2 sacks)...SoCon All-Freshman Team selection...named to the SoCon Academic Honor Roll for the 2024-25 school year.

2023 — Made his collegiate debut against VMI (37-3 win), recording a pair of tackles...awarded redshirt and extra year of eligibility...named to the SoCon Academic Honor Roll for the 2023-24 school year.

HIgh School: 2023 graduate of Spain Park (7A) High School...played defensive end and tight end...football coach was Tim Vakakes...recorded 5.5 sacks and earned first team All-OverTheMountain honors and second team All-South laurels as a senior...credited with 107 tackles in his career at Spain Park...also played basketball and baseball.

Personal: Full name is Robert Caldwell Bussey...born June 1, 2004, in Oxford, Alabama...son of Robert Bussey and Kelli Hayn...has a sister, Haley...his late grandfather, Rudy Abbott, won over 1,000 games in a 32-year baseball coaching tenure at Jacksonville State and is a member of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame...uncle, Randy Bussey, played football and baseball at Alabama...undeclared major.