Player Dossier

2025-2025

Ohio State

Zion Grady

DL • 6'4" • 258 lbs • Enterprise, AL, USA

Ball-hunting defenderSplash play profile

Zion Grady shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.5 disruption score.

Usage / Role

7%

Rotational defensive role

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Impact Production

7

Developing production for a defensive lineman

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Reliability

15

Sporadic game-to-game production

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Star Power

19

Limited ceiling signals so far

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Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Ohio State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
1
Program Path
Ohio State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Grambling

Player Story

Zion Grady built his college career in 2025 as a defensive lineman from Enterprise, AL wearing No. 15, spending time with Ohio State. The clearest part of Zion Grady's career was his defensive production: 13 tackles,...

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Recruit Profile

Class 2025 · Rating 0.958

Enterprise · Enterprise, AL

Committed To
Ohio State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2025

Zion Grady, DL. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2025 Postseason · Ohio State. Zion Grady shows a ball-hunting defender profile with 10.5 disruption score.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Tackles
13
TFL
2
Sacks
1

Quick Answers

Zion Grady quick answers

Latest team and position
Ohio State · DL
Career Tackles
13
Tracked sample
1 unique seasons · 2 entries · 8 games
Best season
2025 Postseason · Ohio State
Top game
Grambling
Recruit profile
4-star · Enterprise · Ohio State
High school pipeline
Enterprise · 18 FBS recruits · 0 drafted players
Latest roster
No. 15 · Freshman
2025 Tackles rank
13 tackles · DL 567th (top 53%) · Big Ten 327th (top 42%) · National 2,661st (top 43%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesTacklesTFLSacksQB HurPDTDOverall
2025 PostseasonOhio State81-0--036.4
2025 Regular SeasonOhio State81221--036.4

Related Context

Zion Grady played DL for Ohio State. Across 1 tracked season, Zion Grady recorded 13 tackles. His top tracked season came in 2025 with Ohio State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2025 Postseason

Ohio State paired 3 primary output with 10.5 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Postseason role shape

impact-led usage with 10.5 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: Grambling

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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2025 Postseason · Ohio State

Games

8

Havoc Plays / G

0.4

Efficiency

10.5

Usage

3.2

Consistency

8.3

Best Game by takeover score

Grambling

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Game-by-Game Trend

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Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Miami: 0. Grambling: 2. Ohio: 0. Minnesota: 1. Wisconsin: 0. Purdue: 0. UCLA: 0. Rutgers: 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. Miami: 1 by 4.2. Grambling: 2 by 28.3. Ohio: 1 by 4.2. Minnesota: 2 by 18.3. Wisconsin: 1 by 4.2. Purdue: 2 by 8.3. UCLA: 3 by 12.5. Rutgers: 1 by 4.2

Split Comparison

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

Wins0.4 · Games = 7 · +0.4 vs Losses
Losses0 · Games = 1 · -0.4 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

Grambling

Best efficiency game

28.3 vs Grambling

Result
Thu 1/1vs MiamiL 14-2410000
Sat 11/22vs RutgersW 42-911000
Sun 11/16vs UCLAW 48-1032000
Sat 11/8@ PurdueW 34-1021000
Sat 10/18@ WisconsinW 34-010000
Sat 10/4vs MinnesotaW 42-321100
Sat 9/13vs OhioW 37-910000
Sat 9/6vs GramblingSplash gameW 70-022110

Player Story

Zion Grady story

Zion Grady built his college career in 2025 as a defensive lineman from Enterprise, AL wearing No. 15, spending time with Ohio State. The clearest part of Zion Grady's career was his defensive production: 13 tackles, 2 tackles for loss, and 1 sack across 8 career games in the available record. That gives Zion Grady's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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    Ohio State

    2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20252025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2025 PostseasonOhio State310.53.2
2025 Regular SeasonOhio State310.53.20

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

vs Grambling

Week 2 · W 70-0

Win with 2 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

2

Havoc Plays

71.1 takeover

2 disruption/tackle impact with 71.1 takeover score.

#2

vs No. 70 Minnesota

Week 6 · W 42-3 · Conference game

1

Havoc Plays

40.5 takeover

Win with 1 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

1 disruption/tackle impact with 40.5 takeover score.

#3

vs No. 98 UCLA

Week 12 · W 48-10 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

12.2 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 12.2 takeover score.

#4

@ No. 90 Purdue

Week 11 · W 34-10 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

9.4 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 9.4 takeover score.

#5

@ No. 85 Wisconsin

Week 8 · W 34-0 · Conference game

0

Havoc Plays

5 takeover

Win with 0 impact plays across the defensive snap sheet.

0 disruption/tackle impact with 5 takeover score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2025 Postseason · Ohio State

3 primary output · 10.5 efficiency · 3.2 usage

36.4

#2

2025 Regular Season · Ohio State

36.4

3 primary · 10.5 efficiency · 3.2 usage

Milestones

1

Impact games

1

Splash games

0

10+ tackle games