Player Dossier

2024-2025

Tennessee

Jordan Ross

DL • 6'5" • 245 lbs • Vestavia Hills, AL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Jordan Ross shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.2 disruption score.

Usage / Role

68%

Regular defensive contributor

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Impact Production

87

Top-tier box-score impact for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

100

Regular contributor with several takeover games

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Star Power

70

High-upside career profile

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Tennessee

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Tennessee
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas

Player Story

Jordan Ross built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Vestavia Hills, AL wearing No. 29, spending time with Tennessee. The clearest part of Jordan Ross' career was his defensive...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.9924

Vestavia Hills · Birmingham, AL

Committed To
Tennessee
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Jordan Ross, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Tennessee. Jordan Ross shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 18.2 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
27
TFL
5.5
Sacks
2
QB hurries
2
Passes defended
2
Touchdowns
2

Quick Answers

Jordan Ross quick answers

Latest team and position
Tennessee · DL
Career Tackles
27
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 3 entries · 13 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Tennessee
Top game
Arkansas
Recruit profile
5-star · Vestavia Hills · Tennessee
High school pipeline
Vestavia Hills · 20 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 29 · Sophomore
2025 Tackles rank
24 tackles · DL 282nd (top 27%) · SEC 219th (top 29%) · National 1,792nd (top 29%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonTennessee231.50--234
2025 PostseasonTennessee1160.501-042
2025 Regular SeasonTennessee11183.5212042

Related Context

Jordan Ross played DL for Tennessee. Across 2 tracked seasons, Jordan Ross recorded 27 tackles and 2 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Tennessee.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Tennessee paired 10 primary output with 18.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 18.2 efficiency.

Supporting note

Career value stayed steady

2025 Regular Season tracked close to the prior stop by season value score.

Supporting note

Peak game by takeover score: Arkansas

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Postseason · Tennessee

Games

11

Havoc Plays / G

0.9

Efficiency

18.2

Usage

4.1

Consistency

15.2

Best Game by takeover score

Arkansas

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Illinois: 1.5. Syracuse: 2. East Tennessee State: 1. Georgia: 2.5. UAB: 0. Mississippi State: 0. Arkansas: 3. Alabama: 0. Kentucky: 0. Oklahoma: 0. Florida: 0

Volume vs Efficiency

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

Volume versus efficiency scatter chart. Illinois: 6 by 40. Syracuse: 1 by 24.2. East Tennessee State: 2 by 18.3. Georgia: 4 by 41.7. UAB: 1 by 4.2. Mississippi State: 2 by 8.3. Arkansas: 2 by 38.3. Alabama: 3 by 12.5. Kentucky: 1 by 4.2. Oklahoma: 1 by 4.2. Florida: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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Wins0.9 · Games = 7 · -0.1 vs Losses
Losses1 · Games = 4 · +0.1 vs Wins

Game Log

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

11 games

Featured metric

Havoc Plays

Top game by takeover score

Arkansas

Best efficiency game

41.7 vs Georgia

Result
Tue 12/30@ IllinoisL 28-30600.5000
Sun 11/23@ FloridaW 31-1110000
Sat 11/1vs OklahomaL 27-3310000
Sat 10/25@ KentuckyW 56-3411000
Sat 10/18@ AlabamaL 20-3731000
Sat 10/11vs ArkansasSplash gameW 34-31211.501.500
Sat 9/27@ Mississippi StateW 41-3421000
Sat 9/20vs UABW 56-2410000
Sat 9/13vs GeorgiaSplash gameL 41-444010.501
Sat 9/6vs East Tennessee StateW 72-1721000
Sat 8/30vs SyracuseSplash gameW 45-2611101

Player Story

Jordan Ross story

Jordan Ross built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a defensive lineman from Vestavia Hills, AL wearing No. 29, spending time with Tennessee. The clearest part of Jordan Ross' career was his defensive production: 27 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss, 2 sacks, and 2 passes defended across 13 career games in the available record. His largest box-score season came in 2025 with Tennessee. Those numbers show where he fit, how often the ball or action found him, and how his role developed over time.

Defensive careers can be hard to read from one number, but Jordan Ross' production has multiple signals. His career also includes 49 return yards, giving the story more than a single-category snapshot. With 13 career games in the available record, his career has enough shape to show both opportunity and production across Tennessee.

The arc is straightforward: Jordan Ross moved through the depth chart, found a larger role, and turned that opportunity into production that can be understood through standard football numbers.

Career Arc

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    Tennessee

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

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SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonTennessee1.513.84.2
2025 PostseasonTennessee1018.24.18.5
2025 Regular SeasonTennessee1018.24.10

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs No. 53 Arkansas

Week 7 · W 34-31 · Conference game

Win with 3 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

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Havoc Plays

70.3 takeover

3 disruption/tackle impact with 70.3 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 6 Georgia

Week 3 · L 41-44 · Conference game · Ranked opponent

2.5

Havoc Plays

65.8 takeover

Loss with 2.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2.5 disruption/tackle impact with 65.8 takeover score.

#3

@ No. 24 Illinois

Week 1 · L 28-30 · Postseason · Ranked opponent

1.5

Havoc Plays

61.9 takeover

Loss with 1.5 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1.5 disruption/tackle impact with 61.9 takeover score.

#4

vs Chattanooga

Week 1 · W 69-3

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Havoc Plays

53.1 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 53.1 takeover score.

#5

vs No. 115 Syracuse

Week 1 · W 45-26

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Havoc Plays

43.6 takeover

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2 disruption/tackle impact with 43.6 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Tennessee

10 primary output · 18.2 efficiency · 4.1 usage

42

#2

2025 Regular Season · Tennessee

42

10 primary · 18.2 efficiency · 4.1 usage

#3

2024 Regular Season · Tennessee

34

1.5 primary · 13.8 efficiency · 4.2 usage

Milestones

3

Impact games

3

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games