Player Dossier

2022-2025

Ohio State

C.J. Hicks

LB • 6'3" • 243 lbs • Dayton, OH, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

C.J. Hicks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.7 disruption score.

Usage Score

3

Efficiency

11.7

Consistency

11.1

Season Value

7.6

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · Ohio State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Seasons Tracked
5
Program Path
Ohio State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Akron

Scouting Read

Best season and peak-game context are pinned here so the rest of the page can stay analytical without losing the headline story.

C.J. Hicks, LB. Best season Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season · Ohio State. C.J. Hicks shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 11.7 disruption score.

C.J. Hicks played LB for Ohio State. Across 4 tracked seasons, C.J. Hicks recorded 42 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Ohio State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2022 Regular Season

Ohio State paired 0 primary output with 5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

impact-led usage with 11.7 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value cooled off

2025 Regular Season fell back from the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Unknown

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

Analysis workspace

Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Ohio State

Games

3

Havoc Plays / G

0.3

Efficiency

11.7

Usage

3

Consistency

11.1

Best Game by takeover score

Ohio

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Active game

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Game-by-Game Trend

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123

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Texas: 0. Unknown: 1. Ohio: 0

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. Texas: 3 by 12.5. Unknown: 2 by 18.3. Ohio: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0 · Games = 2
First Half0.5 · Games = 2
All Games0.3 · Games = 3

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Unknown

Best efficiency game

18.3 vs Unknown

Result
Sat 9/13vs OhioW 37-910000
Sat 9/6vs Unknown21100
Sat 8/30vs TexasW 14-731000

Career Arc

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

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    Ohio State

    2022-2025

    Opening stop

Season Progression

20222023202420242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2022 Regular SeasonOhio State051
2023 Regular SeasonOhio State17.22.31
2024 PostseasonOhio State514.23.44
2024 Regular SeasonOhio State514.23.40
2025 Regular SeasonOhio State111.73-4

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

Akron

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Primary metric

2 disruption/tackle impact with 52 takeover score.

#2

Michigan State

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 42.2 takeover score.

#3

Unknown

1

Primary metric

Game with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 41.6 takeover score.

#4

Purdue

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 26.6 takeover score.

#5

Michigan State

1

Primary metric

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 24.9 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by value score

2022 Regular Season · Ohio State

0 primary output · 5 efficiency · 1 usage

35.3

#2

2024 Postseason · Ohio State

13.4

5 primary · 14.2 efficiency · 3.4 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Ohio State

13.4

5 primary · 14.2 efficiency · 3.4 usage

Milestones

0

Impact games

0

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games

Bio, Recruit, and Data Context

Recruit Profile

5★

Class 2022 · Rating 0.9948

Archbishop Alter · Dayton, OH

Committed To
Ohio State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2022

Career Facts

1

Career teams

5

Seasons tracked

42

Career Tackles

Data Context

Coverage spans 5 tracked seasons, 24 games, and SP opponent-strength context when available. Derived metrics fall back to raw production when share or rating context is missing.