Former linebacker at South Carolina. 2020: 86 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 1 sack.
6′2″ · 230 lb · Waycross, GA
Recruiting
OLB recruit
No. 926 nationally · Signed with South Carolina
Statement game13 tackles · 3 TFL · 1 sackat Vanderbilt (FBS) · W 41-7
Top 1% tackles game since 2021.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
Former linebacker at South Carolina. 2020: 86 tackles, 5 tackles for loss, 1 sack.
Ernest Jones
Third year in the South Carolina linebacker corps, same address the whole way. The receipt: 19 tackles, 0.5 TFL against LSU — Week 8, 2020.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at South Carolina, 199 tackles — drafted at #103 overall by Los Angeles.
His career
He was on the field for 3 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2018–2020
1 coachPlayed his entire career under Will Muschamp.
Where He Ended Up · NFL
Los AngelesEntering 6th NFL season
Season context · Team result + system
3 seasons under Will Muschamp — 13-22 over that span.
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Elite: tackles (99th percentile). Strength: solo tackles (96th percentile). Concern: passes defended (21st percentile).
Percentiles are versus same-position peers with enough snaps this season, based on box-score production. There are no play-by-play efficiency bars here: CFBD's play-value model credits offensive players only, so no defensive EPA exists to rank.
Splits · Per-game
2020 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 6.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road4g | 13.8 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 9.0 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 10.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Shane Beamer
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2020
Splitting first-team reps — starts some weeks, rotates others.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | South Carolina | 86 | 42 | 5.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2019 | South Carolina | 97 | 59 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 5 | 2 | -- |
| 2018 | South Carolina | 16 | 10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 199 | 111 | 10.5 | 2.0 | 5 | 2 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 7 · 2020
W 30–22
vs Auburn
7 TOT · 5 SOLO · 2 QB HUR
With K. Kroeger — 48 AVG · 3 IN 20 · 53 LONG · K. Harris — 83 rush yds (25 car) · 2 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2020 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 4 | L 27-31vs Tennessee | 11 | 7 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | L 24-38@ Florida | 5 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 41-7@ Vanderbilt | 13 | 7 | 3.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | 3.0 TFL |
| Wk 7 | W 30-22vs Auburn | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 24-52@ LSU | 19 | 8 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 19 tackles |
| Wk 10 | L 3-48vs Texas A&M | 5 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | L 42-59@ Ole Miss | 18 | 5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | L 10-17vs Missouri | 7 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 16-45vs Georgia | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 86 | 42 | 5.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 |
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
86 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 5 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.