Student-Athlete Features
VUCommodores.com — Trusting the Dopeness
As a Fifth-Year (2022)
• Played in all 12 games, totaling 49 tackles
• Made a career-best nine tackles against Wake Forest
• Led Commodores with 7 tackles and a forced fumble in win at Hawaii
As a Senior (2021)
• Started all 12 games
• Fourth on the team with 52 total tackles
• Season-best nine tackles versus Georgia
• Intercepted passes against UConn and Missouri
As a Junior (2020)
• SEC Academic Honor Roll
• Seven games played, six starts
• 31 tackles, 0.5 tackles for loss, two pass breakups and two quarterback pressures
• Six or more tackles in three contests
• Seven stops against South Carolina in first career start
• Season-high eight tackles versus Ole Miss
• 0.5 tackle for loss at Mississippi State
• Season-high six solo tackles at Missouri
As a Sophomore (2019)
• Eight games played
• Saw action on special teams and as safety
• 14 tackles (eight solo)
• Four tackles, including three solo stops, versus LSU
• Posted three stops against Florida and Kentucky
As a Freshman (2018)
• 13 games played
• One of 12 true freshmen to see action
• Seven tackles (four solo)
• Blocked first-half punt led to safety in late-season victory over Ole Miss
The Worship File
• Varsity letters in football and lacrosse at Cardinal Gibbons (Fla.)
• Led prep team to 11-2 record in 2017
• 2017 all-county
• 2017 all-district
• 2017 Broward County Defensive Player of the Year
• Team captain
• 55 tackles, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery as a senior
• Four-time honor roll member
• Full name is Maxwell Xavier Worship
• Born in Coral Springs, Florida
• Son of Victoria and Sean Worship
• Mother named one of South Florida’s most influential black women in business and industry in 2017
• One sister, Domonique, who is a lawyer for the NBA
• Majored in human and organizational development and completed a master’s degree in learning, diversity and urban studies