Senior defensive tackle for Ohio State. 2022: 1.5 sacks, 2.5 tackles for loss, 12 tackles.
6′2″ · 305 lb · Cincinnati, OH
Recruiting
DT recruit
No. 241 nationally · Signed with Ohio State
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonThe story
4 defensive tackle for Ohio State. 2022: 1.5 sacks, 2.5 tackles for loss, 12 tackles.
Jerron Cage
Wins his gap play after play. Jerron Cage has played for two head coaches in five seasons at Ohio State. The receipt on tape: 5 tackles, 1.5 TFL against Iowa, Week 8, 2022.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Five seasons at Ohio State, 34 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
He was on the field for 5 seasons. That is rarer than it sounds.
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2018–2022
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Urban Meyer → Ryan Day. 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: solo tackles (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
2022 season · 8 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home5g | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Road3g | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-73g | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Weeks 8+5g | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Ryan Day
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2022
Tackle volume for the position at the early end of the ladder.
| Season | Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Ohio State | 12 | 5 | 2.5 | 1.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2021 | Ohio State | 12 | 5 | 4.0 | 1.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2020 | Ohio State | 5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2019 | Ohio State | 4 | 1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
| 2018 | Ohio State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | -- | -- | -- |
| Career | 34 | 13 | 8.0 | 3.0 | 1 | -- | -- |
SIGNATURE GAME · Week 9 · 2022
W 44–31
at Penn State
Game log · Week-by-week
2022 season · 8 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | W 45-12vs Arkansas State | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 5 | W 49-10vs Rutgers | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 49-20@ Michigan State | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | W 54-10vs Iowa | 5 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.5 | — | 0 | Season-high 5 tackles |
| Wk 9 | W 44-31@ Penn State | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | W 21-7@ Northwestern | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 56-14vs Indiana | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | L 23-45vs Michigan | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 12 | 5 | 2.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 |
Play style
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
CFB Index positional classification
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
12 tackles. 0 passes defended. 0 interceptions. 2.5 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.
Player DNA
Stout at the point of attack — steady tackle-for-loss production without a standout pass-rush number.
His 2022 production profile sits closest to Elgin Griffin’s 2021 season.
Matches Elgin on
Differs from Elgin on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a graduate, his production profile tracks closest to Caleb Sampson's graduate season at Kansas (2022).
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Player DNA