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2021 Football Roster

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  • OLB
    Position
  • Senior
    Class
  • Dayton, Ohio
    Hometown
  • 6'0
    Height
  • 200
    Weight
  • Wayne
    High School
  • Arizona Western JC
    Previous School
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Cash Gilliam
#5
Cash Gilliam
OLB
Position
Senior
Class
Dayton, Ohio
Hometown

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Biography

2021 (SENIOR SEASON)
Played in all 14 games with 12 starts... Finished the season fifth on the team with 64 tackles, which included 1.0 sacks and 2.0 tackles for loss, to go along with one interception and one fumble recovery... Had a season-high eight tackles against Wyoming (11/20) and had seven tackles at UNLV (10/16)... Also had seven stops against Oregon State (12/18) in the Jimmy Kimmel LA Bowl... His lone sack of the season was against Boise State (9/25), while his other tackle for loss was at UNLV... Intercepted his first-career pass against Hawai’i (10/30) and recovered his first-career fumble at San José State (11/13)... Had five-plus tackles in eight games.

2020 (COVID SEASON) 
Played in the first three games and started each of the first two… Finished the season with 20 tackles (7-solo, 13-assist), which included 1.0 sacks and 2.5 tackles for loss… Had eight tackles, including a career-high 0.5 sacks, in the season opener at Boise State (10/24… Recorded a career-high 11 tackles, including 0.5 sacks and a career-best 2.0 tackles for loss, the following weekend against San Diego State (10/31).

2019 (JUNIOR SEASON) 
Played in nine games with two starts… Finished the season with 15 tackles (7-solo, 8-assist), which included 1.5 tackles for loss, to go along with one forced fumble… Had a season-best six tackles and forced his only fumble of the year against Stony Brook (9/7)… Had four tackles, including 1.0 tackles for loss, at San Diego State (9/21)… Had two tackles, including 0.5 tackles for loss, at Fresno State (11/9).

JUNIOR COLLEGE 
Earned all-Western States Football League second-team honors at safety as a sophomore at Arizona Western Junior College in Yuma, Arizona... Played in eight games and recorded 46 tackles, which included 2.5 tackles for loss, while adding a team-best seven pass breakups, to go along with two interceptions and one forced fumble... Recorded a season-high 11 tackles against Georgia Military College and had two pass breakups, to go along with one interception, against Scottsdale CC... Also had an interception against Lackawanna College in the El Toro Bowl.

PREVIOUS SCHOOL
Spent two years at Kentucky as he redshirted in 2016 before appearing in six games and recording three tackles in 2017. 

HIGH SCHOOL 
A consensus three-star recruit that was ranked as the 46th-best cornerback in the nation by Rivals.com, the 59th-best cornerback in the nation by ESPN.com and the 87th-best cornerback in the nation by Scout.com... Earned Associated Press Southwest District and All-Ohio first-team honors, along with being named the Great Western Ohio - Central Conference Defensive Player of the Year at defensive back as a senior at Wayne High School in Huber Heights, Ohio... As a senior, he recorded 77 tackles, including 1.5 sacks, to go along with two interceptions and two forced fumbles... Had a season-high 10 tackles against Centerville HS... Helped lead the Warriors to an undefeated regular season, their second-straight regional title, and appearance in the D-1 state championship game... Wayne HS finished the 2015 season ranked eighth nationally and second in the state of Ohio... Recorded 46 tackles and intercepted two passes as a junior. 

PERSONAL 
Son of Donna Ellis and Raymond Gilliam... Graduated from Utah State in the fall of 2020 with a degree in interdisciplinary studies and is working on his second bachelor’s in political science... Last name is pronounced Gill-ee-um.

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