Player Dossier

2018-2022

Temple

Cameron Ruiz

CB • 5'11" • 185 lbs • Lake Villa, IL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Cameron Ruiz shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.8 disruption score.

Usage / Role

11%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

17

Developing production for a corner

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Reliability

10

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

31

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Northwestern

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Snapshot

Career Teams
2
Unique Seasons
5
Program Path
Northwestern • Temple
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Purdue

Player Story

Cameron Ruiz built his college career from 2018 through 2022 as a cornerback from Lake Villa, IL wearing No. 19, spending time with Northwestern and Temple. The clearest part of Cameron Ruiz's career was his...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2017 · Rating 0.8433

Lakes Community · Lake Villa, IL

Committed To
Northwestern
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2017

Cameron Ruiz, CB. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2019 Regular Season · Northwestern. Cameron Ruiz shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 8.8 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
136
TFL
6.5
Sacks
2
QB hurries
3
Passes defended
18

Quick Answers

Cameron Ruiz quick answers

Latest team and position
Temple · CB
Career Tackles
136
Tracked sample
5 unique seasons · 7 entries · 46 games
Best season
2019 Regular Season · Northwestern
Top game
Purdue
Recruit profile
3-star · Lakes Community · Northwestern
High school pipeline
Lakes Community · 6 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 19 · Senior
2022 Tackles rank
12 tackles · CB 197th (top 51%) · American Athletic 210th (top 45%) · National 2,493rd (top 43%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2018 PostseasonNorthwestern101-0--022
2018 Regular SeasonNorthwestern10250.50-4022
2019 Regular SeasonNorthwestern10443016052.4
2020 PostseasonNorthwestern81-0--036.3
2020 Regular SeasonNorthwestern82222-2036.3
2021 Regular SeasonTemple10311015042.7
2022 Regular SeasonTemple812-011012.2

Related Context

Cameron Ruiz played CB for Northwestern and Temple. Across 5 tracked seasons, Cameron Ruiz recorded 136 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2019 with Northwestern.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2019 Regular Season

Northwestern paired 11 primary output with 29.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2022 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 8.8 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2022 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Multi-stop career journey

Production spans 2 team stops, with role shifts visible across Northwestern, Temple.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Massachusetts

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2022 Regular Season · Temple

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

8.8

Usage

1.6

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Massachusetts

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Duke: 0. Lafayette: 0. Rutgers: 0. Massachusetts: 1. UCF: 0. Tulsa: 0. Houston: 0. East Carolina: 1

Volume vs Efficiency

Each dot is a game. Farther right means the player carried more of the workload, and higher means they were more efficient with those chances.

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Volume on the x-axis, quality on the y-axis.

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Duke: 1 by 4.2. Lafayette: 1 by 4.2. Rutgers: 1 by 4.2. Massachusetts: 1 by 14.2. UCF: 1 by 4.2. Tulsa: 1 by 4.2. Houston: 4 by 16.7. East Carolina: 2 by 18.3

Split Comparison

Compare how this player performed across different situations. "Games" shows how many matchups are included in each split.

Wins0.5 · Games = 2 · +0.3 vs Losses
Losses0.2 · Games = 6 · -0.3 vs Wins

Game Log

Dense stat lines with inline explanations and season-linked highlights.

8 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Massachusetts

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs East Carolina

Result
Sat 11/26vs East CarolinaL 46-4921001
Sat 11/12@ HoustonL 36-4342000
Fri 10/21vs TulsaL 16-2711000
Thu 10/13@ UCFL 13-7011000
Sat 9/24vs MassachusettsW 28-011000
Sat 9/17vs RutgersL 14-1610000
Sat 9/10vs LafayetteW 30-1410000
Fri 9/2@ DukeL 0-3010000

Player Story

Cameron Ruiz story

Cameron Ruiz built his college career from 2018 through 2022 as a cornerback from Lake Villa, IL wearing No. 19, spending time with Northwestern and Temple. The clearest part of Cameron Ruiz's career was his defensive production: 136 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 1 interception across 46 career games in the available record. That gives Cameron Ruiz's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

Track team changes, role shifts, and season-to-season movement.

  1. 1

    Northwestern

    2018-2020

    Opening stop

  2. 2

    Temple

    2021-2022

    Final stop

Season Value Progression

2018201820192020202020212022
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2018 PostseasonNorthwestern4.515.32.2
2018 Regular SeasonNorthwestern4.515.32.20
2019 Regular SeasonNorthwestern1129.35.86.5
2020 PostseasonNorthwestern619.53.9-5
2020 Regular SeasonNorthwestern619.53.90
2021 Regular SeasonTemple719.93.71
2022 Regular SeasonTemple28.81.6-5

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Purdue

Week 11 · L 22-24 · Conference game

Loss with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3

Havoc Plays

89.2 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 89.2 takeover score.

#2

vs Wisconsin

Week 12 · W 17-7 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

75 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 75 takeover score.

#3

@ Nebraska

Week 6 · L 10-13 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

73.3 takeover

Loss with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 73.3 takeover score.

#4

vs Maryland

Week 8 · W 43-3 · Conference game

2

Havoc Plays

71.1 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.1 takeover score.

#5

vs Massachusetts

Week 12 · W 45-6

3

Havoc Plays

67.2 takeover

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

3 disruption/tackle impact with 67.2 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2019 Regular Season · Northwestern

11 primary output · 29.3 efficiency · 5.8 usage

52.4

#2

2021 Regular Season · Temple

42.7

7 primary · 19.9 efficiency · 3.7 usage

#3

2020 Postseason · Northwestern

36.3

6 primary · 19.5 efficiency · 3.9 usage

Milestones

6

Impact games

8

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games