Senior safety for Rice. 2025: 1 interception, 2 pass breakups, 38 tackles.
6′0″ · 181 lb · Long Beach, CA
CFB Index
A single number blending on-field production (an EPA-based value lane) with box-score output for this player's position.
0-100, scaled within each position's own cohort — not directly comparable across positions.
How he plays
Moves between deep coverage and the slot.
Passes defended: 67th percentile.
The full scouting readThe numbers
interception · 2025
2 PBU · 38 tackles
Best game: 1 PBU, 11 tackles, vs Houston
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 safety for Rice. 2025: 1 interception, 2 pass breakups, 38 tackles.
Jack Kane
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Jack Kane has played for three head coaches across four seasons and two programs. The receipt on tape: 11 tackles against Houston, Week 2, 2025.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
His career
He was on the field for 4 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2022–2025
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Mike Bloomgren → Scott Abell. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
Season context · Team result + system
Where this defender ranks vs the field
Box-score production percentiles vs the position cohort
Concern: tackles for loss (7th 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
2025 season · 9 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 5.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| Road4g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-75g | 3.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+4g | 4.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Scott Abell
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2025
Tackle volume for the position in part-time-starter range.
Recognition
Production · CFB Index Score
2026 outlook
Outside shot for All-AAC
Based on 2025: #23 of 38 American Athletic Ss
15% estimated, 95% confidence interval 13–17%. Base rate measured from players who finished at a comparable rank in their conference and came back the next season. It is an estimate from a small sample, not a forecast of this player.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rice | 38 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 1 | -- |
| 2024 | Oregon State | 32 | 14 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2 | 2 | -- |
| 2023 | Oregon State | 23 | 11 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 3 | -- | -- |
| 2022 | Oregon State | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 95 | 43 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 7 | 3 | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 3 · 2025
W 38–17
2 TOT · 2 SOLO
Dominant 21-point win at home against Prairie View A&M.
With C. Jenkins — 87 yds · 1 TD · 0 INT · QBR 39.6 · 124 rush yds (21 car) · 1 TD · A. Turner — 68 rush yds (5 car) · 1 TD
Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 9 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 14-12@ Louisiana | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Wk 2 | L 9-35vs Houston | 11 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | Season-high 11 tackles |
| Wk 3 | W 38-17vs Prairie View A&M | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 28-17@ Charlotte | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 7 | L 13-61@ UTSA | 4 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 37-34vs UConn | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 24-17vs UAB | 7 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 24-56vs North Texas | 8 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | L 3-52@ South Florida | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 38 | 16 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
38 tackles. 2 passes defended. 1 interceptions. 0 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.
2026 Outlook
Rice
2026 Depth chart
Projected starter
Safety · Rice
Returning around him
2026 Award watch
No preseason watch lists yet (most drop June 15 – July 15)
Rice · Last season: 5-8 · Talent rank #100 · 2026 recruiting class #104
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2025 production profile sits closest to Andrew Mukuba’s 2022 season.
Matches Andrew on
Differs from Andrew on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a senior, his production profile tracks closest to Kanion Williams's senior season at Tulsa (2023).
Matches Kanion on
Player DNA