Jacob Savage holds the WLB · Depth spot in Indiana Hoosiers’s linebacker room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Jacob Savage is a true freshman linebacker for Indiana from Union, Kentucky, where he attended Ryle High School. Standing 6'0" and weighing 222 pounds, Savage was a consensus three-star recruit and the No. 5 prospect in Kentucky across all four major recruiting services. At Ryle, he accumulated 511 career tackles, a program record, along with 39.0 tackles for loss. Over his prep career, he recorded 3,584 all-purpose yards and 65 total touchdowns while rushing for 2,835 yards and catching 749 receiving yards. As a senior, he earned the Paul Hornung Award as Kentucky's top high school player and KHSAA Class 6A District 6 Player of the Year. Savage wears No. 21 for the Hoosiers.

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