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2024 Football Roster

Erik Schelkun

13 Cole Johnson

  • Position LB
  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 235
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Hometown Pickerington, Ohio
  • Highschool Pickerington North

Biography

2024 (R-Junior)
• 2024 PFL Academic Honor Roll
• Appeared in five games
• Earned three total tackles (two solo)

2023 (R-Sophomore)
• Appeared in 10 games 
• Was a member of the 2023 PFL Academic Honor Roll

PRIOR TO UD: 
At Western Michigan

• Redshirted the 2021 season
• Saw action in one game (San Jose State) in 2022

High School
• Four-year varsity high school player, the last three at Pickerington North
• Was All-Ohio Capital Conference and all-district as a senior
• Also won the Team Leadership award for a team that won the OCC championship in 2020 
• Had 90 tackles, 14.5 TFL two PBU and three QB hurries
• Three-sport athlete -- Earned the top GPA on the basketball team twice, and threw the shot and disc for Pick North's 2021 state championship team

Personal
• Son of Lorry Starner and John Johnson 
• Has two siblings -- twiin brother Chad and their older sister Emma
• Emma was a softball pitcher at Kent State, was inducted into the KSU Hall of Fame in 2022 and served as associate head coach for the Golden Flashes
• Majoring in Education & Allied Studies
• Hopes to teach and coach

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 13

    2023Redshirt Sophomore

    Linebacker
    6'0" 235 lbs
    13
  • 13

    2024Redshirt Junior

    Linebacker
    6'0" 235 lbs
    13