2025 Football Roster
Roster
Jayden Ballard
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Position:
- WR
- Hometown:
- Massillon, Ohio
- High School:
- Massillon Washington
- Height:
- 6-2
- Weight:
- 205
- Major:
- Human Development & Family Studies
Honors and Awards
2022: OSU Scholar Athlete, Academic All-Big Ten
2021: OSU Scholar Athlete
2025 Outlook: Joins the Badgers as a transfer from Ohio State … Played in 35 games across his four seasons as a Buckeye … ranked as a top-100 prospect and the No. 3 overall player in Ohio as part of the 2021 recruiting class
2024 (Redshirt Junior at Ohio State) Played in seven games, saw action at WR in six … caught two passes for 18 yards … returned a pair of kicks and one punt
2023 (Redshirt sophomore at Ohio State) Played in 12 games, saw action at WR in seven … returned nine punts for 49 yards … featured on OSU’s punt and kick coverage teams … made one tackle
2022 (Redshirt freshman at Ohio State) Played in 12 games, saw time at WR in seven games … made eight catches for 155 yards and a TD … grabbed a 72-yard TD versus Toledo, the longest catch and first TD of his career (Sept. 17) … made a 24-yard grab versus Indiana (Nov. 12) … returned one punt for 14 yards
2021 (Freshman at Ohio State) Played in four games … made first career catch versus Akron for a four-yard gain (Sept. 25)
High School
- Ranked as a top-100 prospect and the No. 3 overall player in Ohio as part of the 2021 recruiting class
- Played in the Army All-American Bowl
- Caught 25 touchdown passes over his final two years for head coach Nate Moore at Massillon Washington
- Helped his team with 10 straight games during the 2020 season and advance to the Division II state championship game
- Hauled in seven passes for 150 yards and three touchdowns in a regional final win over Perry
- Finished his senior year with 36 catches for 573 yards and seven touchdowns
- As a junior, caught 68 passes for 1,202 yards and 18 touchdowns while averaging 80.1 yards per game
- Had career totals of 141 receptions, 2,636 yards and 37 touchdowns
- Became Massillon’s all-time leader in career receiving yards and touchdown receptions in 2020
- Led the Tigers to three consecutive Division II state title games
- Parents are Christina March and Jamaal Ballard
