Ott's Cal Career Game Highs
Rushes: 36 (at Stanford, 2023)
Rushing Yards: 274 (vs. Arizona, 2022)
Rushing TDs: 3 (twice, last vs. USC 2023)
Long Rush: 73TD (vs. Arizona, 2022)
Receptions: 8 (vs. UCLA, 2022)
Receiving Yards: 70 (at USC, 2022)
Receiving TDs: 1 (five times, last vs. Washington State, 2023)
Long Reception: 48TD (at Utah, 2023)
KIck Returns: 2 (vs. Texas Tech - Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl, 2023)
Kick Return Yards: 100 (at UCLA, 2023)
Kick Return TDs: 1 (at UCLA, 2023)
Long Kick Return: 100TD (at UCLA, 2023)
Total TDs: 3 (vs. Arizona, 2022)
Points: 18 (twice, last vs. USC, 2023)
All-Purpose Yards: 284 (vs. Arizona, 2022)
Yards From Scrimmage (Rushing And Receiving): 284 (vs. Arizona, 2022)
Cal Career (2022 – Present)
– Begins the 2024 season ranked second among all active FBS players with an average of 92.2 rushing yards per game, while his 119.58 all-purpose yards per game are fourth
– Has played in 24 of 25 possible games with 22 starts in his first two seasons at Cal following his 2022 arrival
– Has rushed for 2,212 yards and 20 touchdowns on 416 carries for an average of 5.3 yards per carry, while adding 71 receptions for 514 yards and five touchdowns, as well as three kick returns for 144 yards and one touchdown, 2,870 all-purpose yards, 2,726 yards from scrimmage, 26 total touchdowns, and with the addition of one successful two-point conversion a total of 158 points
– Tied for ninth on Cal's all-time list for rushing touchdowns, while his seven 100-yard rushing games are one behind Isi Sofele's eight for 10th-place on Cal's all-time list and his 2,212 rushing yards have him within 292 yards of 10th-place John Olszewski (2504, 1950-52) on Cal's all-time list
– Has the second-most rushing yards through his first 24 games of any player in Cal history with J.J. Arrington (2,452, 2003-04) the only player with more
– Has six contests of 150 or more yards rushing
– Has five touchdown runs of 40 or more yards
– Has scored at least one touchdown in 13 of his last 14 games including a current string of a career-high seven in a row to end the 2023 campaign (also had a previous career best six in a row that spanned his final two games of 2022 and first four of 2023)
– Has earned four Pac-12 Player of the Week honors with three Pac-12 Freshman of the Week selections in his first four games at Cal (UC Davis, UNLV, Arizona) in 2022 and a Special Teams pick in the regular-season finale of his 2023 sophomore campaign
Junior (2024)
– All-American Preseason Third Team (Athlon), Fourth Team (Phil Steele)
– All-ACC Preseason First Team (Atthlon), Second Team (Phil Steele)
– Listed by On3 Sports on May 16 as one of the top 100 players in college football for the 2024 season and was also the sixth-highest running back on the list
– Threw out the first pitch at a San Francisco Giants game on April 26
Sophomore (2023)
– Announced on December 15 that he would be returning to Cal for the 2024 season
– Honorable mention All-American pick by Phil Steele
– First-team All-Pac-12 selection of the league's coaches, Associated Press, College Football News, College Football Network and Phil Steele
– First-team All-SuperWest
– Polynesian College Football Player Of The Year Award national finalist
– Doak Walker Award, Maxwell Award and Walter Camp Award candidate
– Played in and started 12 of 13 games
– Rushed 245 times for 1,315 yards with 12 touchdowns on the ground, while adding 25 receptions for 169 yards and two touchdown catches, as well as three kick returns for a team-high 144 yards and one touchdown on his first career kick return at any level of football, 1,628 all-purpose yards, 1,484 yards from scrimmage and 15 total touchdowns (all career highs other than the receiving numbers)
– Season totals rank him fourth on Cal’s all-time single-season list for rushing attempts, seventh in yards rushing and tied for ninth in rushing touchdowns
– Ranked among Pac-12 and NCAA leaders in rushing yards per game (109.6, No. 1 Pac-12, No. 9 NCAA), all-purpose yards per game (135.67, No. 1 Pac-12, No. 6 NCAA), rushing yards (No. 1 Pac-12, No. 14 NCAA), total touchdowns (No. 2T, No. 19T NCAA), rushing touchdowns (No. 2 Pac-12, No. 29T NCAA), scoring (7.5 ppg, No. 4T Pac-12, No. 49T NCAA) and rush yards per carry (5.35, No. 4 Pac-12, No. 54 NCAA)
– Had five of the top nine rushing games by Pac-12 players (188 at North Texas, 167 vs. Washington State, 166 at Stanford, 165 vs. Arizona State, 153 vs. USC), while no one else had more than one
– His 1,000-yard rushing season was the 19th in Cal history and first since Patrick Laird in 2017 (17 Cal players have recorded 1,000 rushing yards or more in a season with Marshawn Lynch and Russell White each doing it twice)
– Did not play against Idaho due to injury for the only game he has missed in his career but also did not finish games against Auburn, Oregon State and USC due to injury
– at North Texas (W, 58-21) – 20 rushes, 188 yards, 66TD long, 2 TD; 1 reception, 13 yards. 13 long; 201 all-purpose yards; 201 yards from scrimmage ... opened the season for the second consecutive year with a 100-yard rushing game ... second-highest rushing total in career .... had three rushes of 38 or more yards ... Cal's nominee for Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week ... received a Cal game ball for his performance
– Auburn (L, 10-14) – 20 rushes, 78 yards, 14TD long, 1 TD; 2 receptions, 6 yards. 5 long; 84 all-purpose yards; 84 yards from scrimmage ... left the game in the third quarter with an injury and did not return
– at Washington (L, 32-59) – 14 rushes, 43 yards, 8 long, 1 TD; 2 receptions, 12 yards. 9 long; 55 all-purpose yards; 55 yards from scrimmage
– Arizona State (W, 24-21) – 29 rushes, 165 yards, 20 long, 1 TD; 3 receptions, 9 yards. 9 long; 174 all-purpose yards; 174 yards from scrimmage
– Oregon State (L, 40-52) – 13 rushes, 84 yards, 24 long; 1 reception, -3 yards, -3 long; 81 all-purpose yards; 81 yards from scrimmage ... played just two plays in the second half (first two plays of Cal's first second-half possession) before leaving with an injury and did not return ... had career-high string of six consecutive games with at least one touchdown rushing or receiving broken
– at Utah (L, 14-34) – 8 rushes, 46 yards, 13 long; 2 receptions, 48 yards, 48TD long; 94 all-purpose yards; 94 yards from scrimmage ... career-long reception
– USC (L, 49-50) – 21 rushes, 153 yards, 61TD long, 3 TD; 153 all-purpose yards; 153 yards from scrimmage ... had rushing touchdowns of 43, 61 and 4 yards in the first 18:05 of the game ... had 131 yards rushing in the first quarter and 153 in the first half career-high-tying rushing and total touchdowns ... left the game with an injury in the fourth quarter and did not return
– at Oregon (L, 19-63) – 20 rushes, 93 yards, 20TD long, 1 TD; 4 receptions, 15 yards; 108 all-purpose yards; 108 yards from scrimmage
– Washington State (W, 42-39) – 27 rushes, 167 yards, 52 long, 1 TD; 3 receptions, 18 yards, 1 TD; 185 all-purpose yards; 185 yards from scrimmage ... had a 51-yard run ... first game of the season and second in his career with one rushing and one receiving touchdown
– at Stanford (W, 27-15) – 36 rushes, 166 yards, 19 long, 1 TD; 2 receptions, 22 yards; 188 all-purpose yards; 188 yards from scrimmage ... career-high rushing attempts that tied for the most by a Cal player (Chris Brooks, 36 vs. UC Davis, 2019) since Shane Vereen rushed a school-record 43 times in a 2009 Big Game win at Stanford ... took a knee at the Stanford five-yard line on his way into the end zone on his final carry so Cal could run out the clock ... was back as a kick returner for the first time in his collegiate career but did not have any kick returns
– at UCLA (W, 33-7) – 21 rushes, 80 yards, 14 long; 1 reception, 4 yards, 4 long; 1 kick return, 100 yards, 100TD long, 1 TD; 192 all-purpose yards; 92 yards from scrimmage ... named Pac-12 Special Teams Player of the Week for the first time in his career and was honored with weekly recognition from the conference on the fourth occasion ... returned a kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown in his lone career kickoff return after UCLA had briefly taken a 7-6 lead that lasted only the 12 seconds for Ott to get from Cal's end zone into UCLA's ... the 100-yard kickoff returned tied for the third-longest in Cal history, was the fifth kickoff return of 100 or more yards, the first kickoff return for a touchdown since Nikko Remigio had one for 99 yards in a victory over Sacramento State in 2021 and the first kickoff return for a touchdown of 100 or more yards since Trevor Davis returned two kickoffs for touchdowns including one for 100 yards in a win at Washington State in 2014 ... the 100-yard kickoff return was one of five by FBS players on November 25 and is one of 10 during the 2023 season
– vs. Texas Tech - Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl (L, 14-34) – 17 rushes, 55 yards, 26 long, 1 TD; 4 receptions, 28 yards, 12 long; 2 kick returns, 44 yards, 23 long; 127 all-purpose yards; 83 yards from scrimmage ... career-high kick returns
Freshman (2022)
– Earned All-True Freshman team honors (Pro Football Focus), as well first-team (The Athletic) and second-team (College Football News) Freshman All-American honors, picking up The Athletic honors as an all-purpose player and all others as a running back
– Also earned All-Pac-12 honors as a third-team (Pro Football Focus), fourth-team (Phil Steele) and honorable mention (Pac-12 Coaches) selection
– Selected as a MIdseason True Freshman All-American by On3 and The Athletic, as well as a Midseason Freshman All-American by College Football News
– Played in all 12 games with starts in each of the last 10
– Ranked among Pac-12 and NCAA leaders in all-purpose yards (1218, #4 Pac-12, #67 NCAA), all-purpose yards per game (101.5, #6 Pac-12, #65 NCAA), rushing yards per game (74.8, #5 Pac-12, #58 NCAA), rushing yards (897, #5 Pac-12, #61 NCAA), total touchdowns (11, #8T Pac-12, #54T NCAA), rush yards per carry (5.28, #9 Pac-12, #52 NCAA) and rushing touchdowns (8, #11T Pac-12, #87T NCAA)
– Led all Pac-12 freshmen and ranked among the nation's top freshmen in all-purpose yards per game (#4 NCAA), all-purpose yards (#5 NCAA), total touchdowns (#5T NCAA) and rushing touchdowns (#11T NCAA)
– Second among Pac-12 freshmen and among the nation's top freshmen in rush yards per carry (#6 NCAA), receptions per game (3.8, #6 NCAA), receptions (46, #7 NCAA), rushing yards per game (#7 NCAA) and rushing yards (#8 NCAA)
– Had three games with multiple overall touchdowns and a pair of contests with two or more rushing touchdowns (3 rushing vs. Arizona; 1 rushing, 1 receiving vs. UNLV; 2 rushing at USC)
– Had 321 yards receiving and three touchdown catches on his 46 receptions that were the top numbers of the campaign by all Cal running backs while his receptions were tied for third-most in a single season ever by a Cal running back
– Named Pac-12 Freshman of the Week in three of his first four games at Cal vs. UC Davis, UNLV and Arizona
– Ranked No. 24 among PFF's top rated halfbacks in the nation with a 90.1 rushing run grade
– UC Davis (W, 34-13) – 17 rushes, 104 yards, 18 long; 2 receptions, 26 yards, 1 TD. 18 long; 130 all-purpose yards; 130 yards from scrimmage ... first player to rush for over 100 yards in his Cal debut since Shane Vereen had 101 yards rushing against Michigan State on August 30, 2008 ... 130 yards from scrimmage (104 rushing, 26 receiving) most by a player in his Cal debut since Keenan Allen had 158 (38 rushing, 120 receiving) against UC Davis on September 4, 2010 ... Pac-12 Freshman of the Week for the first of two consecutive weeks ... career-high-tying touchdown receptions
– UNLV (W, 20-14) – 7 rushes, 52 yards, 1 TD, 23 long; 3 receptions, 16 yards, 1 TD. 12 long; 68 all-purpose yards; 68 yards from scrimmage ... had both a rushing and receiving TD in the first quarter and became the first Cal player to have both a rushing and receiving touchdown in a contest since Christopher Brown Jr. against Washington State on Nov. 9, 2019 ... Pac-12 Freshman of the Week for the second of two consecutive weeks ... career-high-tying touchdown receptions
– at Notre Dame (L, 17-24) – 13 rushes, 33 yards, 13 long; 2 receptions, 11 yards, 8 long; 44 all-purpose yards; 44 yards from scrimmage
– Arizona (W, 49-31) – 19 rushes, 274 yards, 3 TD, 73TD long; 2 receptions, 10 yards, 13 long ... career-high rushing yards and rushing touchdowns ....career-long rush ... 274 yards rushing are the third-most overall by a Cal player and most ever in a game by a Cal and Pac-12 freshman, as well as the fourth-most in an FBS game in 2022, and at the time were the most by an FBS freshman since Maryland's Anthony McFarland had 298 against Ohio State in 2018, and the most by an FBS true freshman since Texas' Chris Warren III had 276 against Texas Tech in 2015 ... three total touchdowns were tied for the most by a Pac-12 player in a game in 2022 both rushing and overall, as well as the most rushing touchdowns at Cal since Patrick Laird had three against Weber State in 2017 ... became only the third Cal player with three or more rushing touchdowns in a game for Cal since the beginning of the 2011 season (Daniel Lasco also had three vs. Oregon State in 2014) ... with his 73 and 72-yard touchdown runs became the first Pac-12 player with two runs of 70 or more yards in a game since Colorado's Jarek Broussard against Arizona in 2020 and the first Cal player since Jahvid Best at Washington State in 2008 ... 73-yard touchdown run was Cal's longest since Marcel Dancy had a 76-yard touchdown run at Stanford in 2021 and the longest by a Cal freshman since Khalfani Muhammad also had a 73-yard touchdown run against Washington in 2013 ... picked up multiple honors for his performance including 247Sports True Freshman of the Week, FWAA Freshman Focus Selection, Pac-12 Freshman of the Week, Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week and Rose Bowl Game Pac-12 Player of the Week ... selected as the conference's Freshman of the Week for the third time in the first four weeks of the 2022 campaign while capturing each of the other honors for the first time ... also a nominee for Doak Walker National Running Back of the Week honors ... led the nation's halfbacks in Week 4 with his Pro Football Focus rushing "run grade" of 99.9 and "offensive grade" of 99.1
– at Washington State (L, 9-28) – 17 rushes, 70 yards, 1 TD, 18 long; 7 receptions, 40 yards, 14 long
– at Colorado (L, 13-20, OT) – 16 rushes, 47 yards, 23 long; 3 receptions, 14 yards, 8 long
– Washington (L, 21-28) – 14 rushes, 38 yards, 12 long; 2 receptions, 16 yards, 8 long
– Oregon (L, 24-42) – 14 rushes, 57 yards, 16 long; 3 receptions, 10 yards, 7 long
– at USC (L, 35-41) – 14 rushes, 55 yards, 2 TD, 22 long; 7 receptions, 70 yards, 21 long ... career-high yards receiving
– at Oregon State (L, 10-38) – 8 rushes, 20 yards, 14 long; 4 receptions, 6 yards, 9 long
– Stanford (W, 27-20) – 18 rushes, 97 yards, 1 TD, 21 long; 3 receptions, 51 yards, 27 long ... one of three to be selected as a Cal Player of the Week (Big Game Hero) along with Daniel Scott and Jackson Sirmon
– UCLA (L, 28-35) – 13 rushes, 55 yards, 14 long; 8 receptions, 51 yards, 1 TD, 12 long ... career-high receptions ... career-high-tying touchdown receptions
– All-Pac-12 Preseason Fourth Team (Athlon)
Norco HS (Class Of 2022)/Bishop Gorman HS (2019-20)
– A Preseason All-Pac-12 fourth-team selection by Phil Steele as a 2022 freshman
– Played 23 prep games over two seasons at Norco High School as a 2018 freshman and 2021 senior, while also spending two seasons at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas in 2019 and 2020 without playing
– Rushed for 2236 yards and 30 touchdowns as a prep on 265 carries for averages of 97.2 yards per game rushing with 12 100-yard rushing games and 8.4 yards per carry, while adding 17 receptions for 228 yards and one touchdown for a total of 2480 all-purpose yards
– Scored 190 career points by adding a pair of two-point rushing conversions to his 30 rushing and one receiving touchdown
– Earned MaxPreps Big XIII League Back of the Year as a 2021 senior when he rushed for 1140 yards and 17 touchdowns on 114 carries for a 10.0 yards per rush average, while adding 11 receptions for 154 yards as well as one kick return for 16 yards (all career highs), both of his career two-point rushing conversions, and his lone prep kick return for 16 yards for a team that was 8-3 overall before being knocked out in the first round of the Southern Section Division I playoffs by unbeaten and eventual state champion Mater Dei
– Rushed for 1096 yards and 13 touchdowns on a career-high 151 carries for a 7.3 yards per rush average, while adding six receptions for 74 yards and his lone career touchdown reception as a 2018 freshman for a team that finished 9-3 overall to earn MaxPreps Freshman All-American honors
MaxPreps High School Bio And Stats
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Recruiting Notes And Ratings (As Of December 15, 2021)
Stars: 247Sports (4), 247Sports Composite (4), ESPN (4), Rivals (4)
National Overall Player Rankings: 247Sports Composite (286)
National Running Back Rankings: Rivals (14), 247Sports (21), 247Sports Composite (25), ESPN (31)
Regional Overall Player Rankings: ESPN (57)
California Overall Player Rankings: Rivals (14), 247Sports (22), 247Sports Composite (25), ESPN (31)
Ratings/Scout Grades: 247Sports (91), 247Sports Composite (0.9020), ESPN (75), Rivals (5.8)
Justin Wilcox On Jaydn Ott
“Jaydn is a productive running back with a lot to be excited about. He is a smooth athlete with an impressive combination of burst, lateral quickness and long speed that will translate well at this level. Jaydn is a homerun hitter with the ball in his hands and has value as both a receiver and pass protector in the passing game. We anticipate he will enroll in the spring and begin competing right away.”
Other
– Born December 16, 2002
– Son of Justin and Gail Ott
– One of two hosts of the 2024 Cal Football Reading Challenge along with Golden Bear teammate Jack Endries
– Major is legal studies