The 6-foot-6, 240-pound Vokolek played his high school football in Springfield, Mo. where he was a standout tight end and outside linebacker at Kickapoo H.S. His father, D.J. Vokolek is originally from Lincoln, Nebraska and played linebacker at the University of Nebraska-Kearney. After his playing days at UNK, he began his coaching career at Wayne State and Nebraska-Omaha and is currently coaching at Northern Iowa.
Vokolek will be a 3-for-2 transfer and will have to sit out a year unless granted a special waiver by the NCAA. His father had been on the coaching staff at Buffalo before heading back to UNI which is part of the reason for Vokolek's transfer back to the Midwest.