Ja'Von Rolland-Jones: DE · Arkansas State · #11.
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Ja'Von Rolland-Jones
Turns pressure into sacks — pressures become finishes. Third year in the Arkansas State defensive front. All-Sun Belt in 2017 made it two straight seasons on the honors list. A game that shows it: 5 tackles and 0.5 tackles for loss against Middle Tennessee — Bowl, 2017.
Play style
Turns pressure into sacks — when he gets there, he finishes.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
56 tackles. 1 pass defended. 0 interceptions. 19 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.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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| Season | Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Arkansas State | 56 | 29 | 19.0 | 13.0 | 1 | -- |
| 2016 | Arkansas State | 56 | 23 | 21.0 | 13.5 | -- | -- |
| 2015 | Arkansas State | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Career | 112 | 52 | 40.0 | 26.5 | 1 | 1 |
There is no official box score for these seasons, so this sack count comes from the play-by-play.
Each sack is credited to the player named on the play, and a sack shared by two players counts as half for each. We checked the same method against the official box scores for 2016 to 2019: it lands within half a sack for about 9 in 10 players. Tackles and passes defended are not shown for these seasons because the same check does not hold for them. Source: SportsDataverse play data.
Game log · Week-by-week
2017 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | L 36-43@ Nebraska | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 48-3vs Arkansas-Pine Bluff | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | L 21-44@ SMU | 4 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 6 | W 43-25@ Georgia Southern | 6 | 5 | 2.0 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 7 | W 51-17vs Coastal Carolina | 2 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 47-3vs Louisiana | 5 | 4 | 3.5 | 2.5 | — | 0 | 2.5 sacks |
| Wk 9 | W 37-21@ New Mexico State | 8 | 4 | 2.5 | 2.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 11 | L 19-24@ South Alabama | 7 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 30-12vs Texas State | 7 | 4 | 3.5 | 2.0 | — | 0 | 2 sacks |
| Wk 13 | W 67-50@ UL Monroe | 5 | 0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 25-32vs Troy | 3 | 3 | 2.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 30-35vs Middle Tennessee | 5 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 56 | 29 | 19.0 | 13.0 | — | 1 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
23%13 sacksTFL rate
34%19 TFLHurry rate
11%6 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
68%13 of 19 pressures56 tackles · 19 for loss · 13 sacks.
3 seasons under Blake Anderson — 24-14 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 3.8 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.0 |
| Road6g | 5.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 3.5 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 5.8 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Blake Anderson
Pass share
52.9%
511 pass / 455 run
Plays / game
80.5
12 games
Team sack rate
6.1%
556 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced, fast tempo.
Player standing · 2017
First team in his league at the position.
How it ended
Three seasons at Arkansas State, 26 sacks, a first-team All-Conference season (2016) — the college career is complete.
Four or fewer games in the first season, then ten or more.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-SUN BELT · 1ST TEAM
All-Sun Belt 1st team (2017)
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Blake Anderson.
