Jalyn Holmes: DE · Ohio State · #11.
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Jalyn Holmes
Holds up snap after snap without a weakness to attack. Second year in the Ohio State defensive front. On tape: 5 tackles against Wisconsin, Week 14, 2017.
Play style
No single standout number, but nothing missing either — competent across the board.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
30 tackles. 3 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 3 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.
Los Angeles Times Nov 1
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| Season | Team | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Ohio State | 30 | 18 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 3 |
| 2016 | Ohio State | 33 | 12 | 9.0 | 2.0 | 1 |
| Career | 63 | 30 | 12.0 | 4.0 | 4 |
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 · 13 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 49-21@ Indiana | 3 | 3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 2 | |
| Wk 2 | L 16-31vs No. 5 Oklahoma | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 4 | W 54-21vs UNLV | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 56-0@ Rutgers | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 62-14vs Maryland | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 7 | W 56-14@ Nebraska | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 39-38vs No. 2 Penn State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 24-55@ Iowa | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 48-3vs No. 13 Michigan State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 12 | W 52-14vs Illinois | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 31-20@ Michigan | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 27-21vs No. 3 Wisconsin | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
 Bowl | W 24-7vs No. 8 USC | 4 | 3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 1 | |
| Total | 30 | 18 | 3.0 | 2.0 | — | 3 |
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
Sack rate
7%2 sacksTFL rate
10%3 TFLHurry rate
7%2 hurriesPressure-to-sack conversion
50%2 of 4 pressures30 tackles · 3 for loss · 2 sacks.
2 seasons under Urban Meyer — 23-4 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2017 season · 13 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home6g | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| Road5g | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-77g | 2.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 1.8 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Urban Meyer
Pass share
43.3%
439 pass / 575 run
Plays / game
72.4
14 games
Team sack rate
4.6%
477 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Run-leaning.
Player standing · 2017
Fewer tackles a game than most FBS defensive linemen who play every week.
How it ended
Two seasons at Ohio State, 4 sacks — drafted at #102 overall by the Minnesota Vikings.
Coaching lineage · 2014–2017
1 coachPlayed every college season under Urban Meyer.
Next stop · NFL
Minnesota VikingsEntering 9th NFL season
Minnesota VikingsEntering 9th NFL season
