AT SAN JOSE STATE: Completed one season with the Spartans... First joined the team for 2016 spring practice... Competed for the long snapping duties.
2016: Did not see any game action.
COMMUNITY COLLEGE: Played two seasons at Gavilan College (Coach Spencer Gilford)... Played center and and handled the long snapping duties... Was named to the college's Dean's List for the Fall 2013 and Fall 2015 semesters.
HIGH SCHOOL: Lettered in football at Gilroy (Calif.) High (Coach Brian Boyd)... Was a second-team All-Monterey Bay-Gabilan League selection during his career... Concluded his career playing in the 2013 Charlie Wedemeyer North-South All-Star Classic in San Jose.
MORE ON GIANFRANCO: A business management major... His cousin, Niko Fortino, was a quarterback at Lewis and Clark College in 2015... Enjoys fishing... He is a native of Gilroy, Calif.