 Ransom talking to press ahead of the 2025 CFP National Championship. | |
| Ohio State Buckeyes–No. 8 | |
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| Position | Safety |
| Class | Senior |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | July 16, 2002 Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 206 lb (93 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College |
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| Bowl games | |
| High school | Salpointe Catholic (Tucson, Arizona) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Lathan Ransom (born July 16, 2002) is an American college football safety for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Ransom attended Salpointe Catholic High School in Tucson, Arizona. He was selected to play in the 2020 All-American Bowl. He committed to Ohio State University to play college football. [1] [2]
As a freshman at Ohio State in 2020, Ransom played in seven games and had six tackles. As a sophomore in 2021, he played in 13 games and had 38 tackles and one sack. In the 2022 Rose Bowl, he suffered a broken leg. [3] [4] Ransom returned from the injury in time for the 2022 season. [5] [6] He was one of 12 semi-finalists for the Jim Thorpe Award. [7]
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | |||||||||
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| 6 ft 0+1⁄4 in (1.84 m) | 206 lb (93 kg) | 30+1⁄2 in (0.77 m) | 8+1⁄2 in (0.22 m) | |||||||||
| All values from NFL Combine [8] [9] [10] | ||||||||||||
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