Jeremy Cash

Jeremy Cash
No. -- Carolina Panthers
Position: Linebacker
Personal information
Date of birth: (1992-12-09) December 9, 1992
Place of birth: Miami, Florida
Height: 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight: 210 lb (95 kg)
Career information
High school: Plantation (FL)
College: Duke
Undrafted: 2016
Career history
Roster status: Unsigned draft pick
Career highlights and awards
  • Consensus All-American (2015)
  • ACC Defensive Player of the year (2015)

Jeremy Cash (born December 9, 1992) is a Linebacker for the Carolina Panthers.

Early years

Cash attended Plantation High School in Broward County, near Fort Lauderdale.[1] As a sophomore campaign he posted 82 total tackles, nine sacks and an interception. As a junior, he collected 96 tackles, 23 of them for loss, 7 sacks, 2 interceptions, and 5 forced fumbles. As a senior in 2010, he missed five games due to a knee injury. Cash also lettered in basketball and track and field at Plantation, recording times of 11.76 seconds in the 100-meter dash and 24.06 in the 200-meter dash.

Cash was rated by Rivals.com as a three-star recruit and was charted as the No. 25 safety in the country. He committed to Ohio State University to play college football in the spring of his junior year (April 2010). The decision was based in large part on his comfort level with then-coach Jim Tressel. Cash bypassed his last semester in high school to enroll at Ohio State early, in January 2011. He also had scholarship offers from Miami (FL), Florida State, Colorado, Nebraska, South Florida, Arizona State and Wisconsin before making his collegiate selection.[2]

College career

Cash attended Ohio State for one year. He played in five games and made three tackles. In January 2012, he transferred to Duke University.[3][4] After sitting out 2012 due to NCAA transfer rules, Cash started all 13 games in 2013. He recorded 121 tackles and had three interceptions.[5] He again started all 13 games in 2014 and recorded 111 tackles, two interceptions and 5.5 sacks.[6][7] Cash considered entering the 2015 NFL Draft, but decided to return to Duke for his senior year.[8][9]

As a senior in 2015, Cash recorded 100 tackles, 18 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, eight quarterback pressures, four pass breakups, three forced fumbles and one fumble recovery in 12 games. He earned multiple national defensive player of the week honors for racking up 12 total tackles, three tackles for loss, a quarterback sack and forcing two fumbles as Duke upset No. 20-ranked Georgia Tech, 34-20 . Cash was named ACC Defensive Player of the Year on December 2, becoming the first Blue Devils player to earn the award since it debuted in 1993. He was the first Duke player to win either of the player of the year awards since running back Robert Baldwin was the offensive and overall player of the year in 1994. He received 19 votes, ahead of Clemson defensive end Shaq Lawson (13), Pittsburgh defensive end Ejuan Price (7), Florida State cornerback Jalen Ramsey (7), Louisville defensive end Sheldon Rankins (2), Virginia Tech defensive tackle Luther Maddy (1) and Virginia safety Quin Blanding (1).

He was also a finalist for the Lott Impact Trophy, the Chuck Bednarik Award, and the Jim Thorpe Award while earning Consensus All-American Honors. Cash was named Carmen Falcone MVP of Duke football at an award banquet. On December 16, 2015 it was announced that Cash would forgo Duke's Pinstripe Bowl against Indiana to have wrist surgery.

Career statistics

College

Regular season statistics Tackles Interceptions Fumbles
Season Team GP GS Comb Total Ast Sck Tfl PDef Int Yds Avg Lng TDs FF FR FR YDS
2011 Ohio State 5 0 3 2 1 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0
2013 Duke 14 14 121 64 57 0.0 9.5 3 3 18 6.0 14 0 2 3 0
2014 Duke 13 13 111 68 43 5.5 10.5 7 2 38 19.0 23 0 4 1 0
2015 Duke 12 12 100 57 43 2.5 18.0 4 0 0 0.0 0 0 3 1 0
Totals 44 39 335 191 144 8.0 38.0 14 5 56 11.2 23 0 9 5 0

[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Duke". newsobserver.
  2. ↑ "Jeremy Cash". yahoo.com.
  3. ↑ "Sammy Batten: Ohio State transfer Jeremy Cash on the money for Duke". Fayetteville Observer.
  4. ↑ "Former Buckeye Jeremy Cash: ‘Not much feeling’ for Ohio State title victory". starnewsonline.com.
  5. ↑ "How Jeremy Cash personifies Duke football's rise". USA TODAY. July 22, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Top 10 most important Duke football players: No. 3 Jeremy Cash". newsobserver.
  7. ↑ "Jeremy Cash thinking big, for Duke and himself". charlotteobserver.
  8. ↑ "Duke Blue Devils safety Jeremy Cash will return for senior season". ESPN.com.
  9. ↑ Steve WisemanHerald-Sun (January 8, 2015). "Duke all-America S Jeremy Cash spurns NFL, to return for Blue Devils". The Herald-Sun.
  10. ↑ "Jeremy Cash Stats". ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

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