Player Dossier

2024-2025

Kent State

Jay Jay Etheridge

WR • 5'10" • 160 lbs • Cincinnati, OH, USA

Reliable chain-moverPossession profile

Jay Jay Etheridge reads as a reliable chain-mover based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Usage / Role

2%

Rotational offensive role

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Impact Production

11

Developing production for a receiver

lowelite

Reliability

11

Sporadic game-to-game production

lowhigh

Star Power

20

Limited ceiling signals so far

limitedstar

Career Arc

Value trend by season

Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kent State

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Snapshot

Career Teams
1
Unique Seasons
2
Program Path
Kent State
Peak Game
Peak game by takeover score: Buffalo

Player Story

Jay Jay Etheridge built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a wide receiver from Cincinnati, OH wearing No. 3, spending time with Kent State. The clearest part of Jay Jay Etheridge's career was his receiving...

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3★

Recruit Profile

Class 2024 · Rating 0.8539

Mt. Healthy · Cincinnati, OH

Committed To
Kent State
Commit Date
Jan 1, 2024

Jay Jay Etheridge, WR. Best season Best season by Season Value: 2024 Regular Season · Kent State. Jay Jay Etheridge reads as a reliable chain-mover based on recent role and receiving efficiency.

Stat Footprint

Career production snapshot

Receiving yards
167
Receptions
18
Touchdowns
1

Quick Answers

Jay Jay Etheridge quick answers

Latest team and position
Kent State · WR
Career Receiving Yards
167
Tracked sample
2 unique seasons · 2 entries · 9 games
Best season
2024 Regular Season · Kent State
Top game
Buffalo
Recruit profile
3-star · Mt. Healthy · Kent State
High school pipeline
Mt. Healthy · 8 FBS recruits · 1 drafted player
Latest roster
No. 3 · Sophomore
2025 Receiving yards rank
30 receiving yards · WR 862nd (top 79%) · Mid-American 142nd (top 74%) · National 1,544th (top 71%)

Season Ledger

Crawlable season-by-season stats

SeasonTeamGamesRecRec YdsTDOverall
2024 Regular SeasonKent State614137168.5
2025 Regular SeasonKent State3430050

Related Context

Jay Jay Etheridge played WR for Kent State. Across 2 tracked seasons, Jay Jay Etheridge recorded 167 receiving yards and 1 touchdowns. His top tracked season came in 2024 with Kent State.

Player insights

Lead takeaway

Best season by value score: 2024 Regular Season

Kent State paired 137 primary output with 66.3 efficiency.

Supporting note

2025 Regular Season role shape

target-driven usage with 52.2 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: Merrimack

Win with an explosive receiving profile. It landed in the 100th percentile of the selected season.

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Season Workbench

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Season Explorer

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2025 Regular Season · Kent State

Games

3

Receiving Yards / G

10

Efficiency

52.2

Usage

10.9

Consistency

89.5

Best Game by takeover score

Merrimack

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Game-by-Game Trend

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123

Chronological game order.

Game by game trend chart. Merrimack: 13. Florida State: 9. Toledo: 8

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. Merrimack: 2 by 43.3. Florida State: 1 by 60. Toledo: 1 by 53.3

Split Comparison

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

Wins13 · Games = 1 · +4.5 vs Losses
Losses8.5 · Games = 2 · -4.5 vs Wins

Game Log

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

3 games

Featured metric

Receiving Yards

Top game by takeover score

Merrimack

Best efficiency game

60 vs Florida State

Result
Sat 10/18@ ToledoL 10-45188808
Sat 9/20@ Florida StateL 10-66199909
Sat 8/30vs MerrimackW 21-172136.56.5009

Player Story

Jay Jay Etheridge story

Jay Jay Etheridge built his college career from 2024 through 2025 as a wide receiver from Cincinnati, OH wearing No. 3, spending time with Kent State. The clearest part of Jay Jay Etheridge's career was his receiving role: 18 catches, 167 receiving yards, and 1 touchdown across 9 career games in the available record. That gives Jay Jay Etheridge's career enough real context without stretching the story beyond the available production.

Career Arc

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  1. 1

    Kent State

    2024-2025

    Opening stop

Season Value Progression

20242025
SeasonTeamPrimaryEfficiencyUsageDelta
2024 Regular SeasonKent State13766.320.1
2025 Regular SeasonKent State3052.210.9-107

Signature Performances

Top Games

#1 Featured game

@ Buffalo

Week 14 · L 7-43 · Conference game

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

64

Receiving Yards

90.4 takeover

64 receiving yards with a 71.1 efficiency score.

#2

vs Merrimack

Week 1 · W 21-17

13

Receiving Yards

66.3 takeover

Win with an explosive receiving profile.

13 receiving yards with a 43.3 efficiency score.

#3

@ No. 41 Florida State

Week 4 · L 10-66

9

Receiving Yards

51.6 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

9 receiving yards with a 60 efficiency score.

#4

@ Western Michigan

Week 9 · L 21-52 · Conference game

16

Receiving Yards

50.9 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

16 receiving yards with a 100 efficiency score.

#5

@ Tennessee

Week 3 · L 0-71

16

Receiving Yards

50.8 takeover

Loss with an explosive receiving profile.

16 receiving yards with a 53.3 efficiency score.

Top Seasons

#1 Season by Season Value

2024 Regular Season · Kent State

137 primary output · 66.3 efficiency · 20.1 usage

68.5

#2

2025 Regular Season · Kent State

50

30 primary · 52.2 efficiency · 10.9 usage

Milestones

0

100+ receiving yards

0

8+ catch outings

0

2+ TD games