Junior safety on Ohio's 2021 roster.
6′0″ · 190 lb · Mentor, OH
The story
3 safety on Ohio's roster.
Recruiting
S recruit
No. 3176 nationally · Signed with Mentor
No college snaps yet.
His career numbers, season by seasonMichael Ballentine
Moves between deep coverage and the slot. Michael Ballentine has been at Ohio through two head coaches in three seasons. The receipt: 8 tackles, 1 TFL against Louisiana — Week 3, 2021.
Low coverage — composed from the verified record.
How it ended
Three seasons at Ohio, 25 tackles — his college career is complete.
His career
Career arc
Coaching lineage · 2019–2021
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: Frank Solich → Tim Albin. 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: passes defended (19th 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
2021 season · 4 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home2g | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Road2g | 6.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-74g | 4.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
John Hauser
Scheme reads (pass share, tempo, sack rate) need at least 3 team games — 2 games in so far.
Player standing · 2021
Tackle volume for the position in rotation-piece range.
Game log · Week-by-week
2021 season · 4 games
| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 2 | L 26-28vs Duquesne | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | L 14-49@ Louisiana | 8 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | Season-high 8 tackles |
| Wk 4 | L 6-35@ Northwestern | 5 | 5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | L 27-30vs Central Michigan | 3 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 17 | 14 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 |
Play style
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
CFB Index positional classification
Player DNA
Moves between deep coverage and the slot — the modern positionless DB.
His 2021 production profile sits closest to Joshua Bowers’s 2021 season.
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Differs from Joshua on
Not enough data yet for this comparison.
As a junior, his production profile tracks closest to Alex Ford's junior season at Western Kentucky (2024).
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Player DNA