Jack Fries holds the WLB · Starter spot in Ohio Bobcats’s linebacker room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

Jack Fries is a redshirt senior linebacker at Ohio who hails from Cincinnati and attended LaSalle High School. In 2025, he appeared in eight games with seven starts, recording 54 total tackles, 25 solo tackles, and 3.0 tackles for loss. He also registered his first career interception against UMass on November 18 and posted a season-high 11 tackles against Western Michigan on November 11. Fries earned Academic All-MAC Honors in both 2024 and 2025.