Post-OSU Update: Taron Vincent was not selected in the 2023 NFL Draft. He signed with the LA Rams in the preseason, but was waived before the start of the regular season. He has played in the UFL in the 2024 season. (updated: Mar. 2025)

Pronunciation: tuh-RON
Major: Grad (2022), Sport Industry (2020-22), Undeclared (2019)
Weight: 300 (2021-22), 295 (2020), 293 (2019), 288 (2018)

2022: Graduated in spring, 2022 with his degree in sport industry … had a career-high 25 tackles in 2022 and was credited with 60 total tackles for his career and 9.0 tackles-for-losses totaling 25 yards … invited to the East-West Shrine Bowl.

2022 Media Guide: Is in his fifth season with the program and has two seasons of eligibility remaining … has played in 28 games, including six during the 2020 Covid season, and has started eight times with all of them coming last year in 2021 … has recorded 35 career tackles, including 6.5 tackles-for-loss.

2021:  Recorded a career-high six tackles – three solo and three assisted – in the 2022 Rose Bowl game vs. Utah … Honorable mention all-Big Ten Conference; OSU Scholar-Athlete; Academic All-Big Ten.

2021 Media Guide: A fourth-year junior, he enters the 2021 season as a veteran of 15 games with 12 tackles, three TFLs and 1.5 sacks.

2020: Missed the first two games of the 2020 season but returned to play in the final six contests … finished the season with nine tackles, two tackles-for-loss and half a sack … had his best statistical outing vs. Northwestern in the Big Ten Championship Game, totaling three tackles, one TFL and half a sack.

2019: Did not see any game action in 2019 due to injury and redshirted.

2019 Media Guide: Earned playing time along a deep and talented defensive line in 2018, appearing in 10 games while totaling three tackles … had a sack in the Big Ten championship game vs. Northwestern … also had two tackles in the season-opener against Oregon State … earned Ohio State Scholar-Athlete honors last year and is exploring majors in management and industry.

High School: Taron Vincent was a five-star prospect by 247Sports.com and Rivals.com and both of these recruiting services rated him as the No. 1 defensive tackle prospect in the nation … nationally rated among all players at No. 19 on the ESPN 300 and No. 20 on the 247Sports composite … honored as the prestigious Maxwell Club’s first-ever national high school defensive player of the year … A Prepstar Dream Team member … selected to play in the 2018 U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio … strong and explosive in the trenches … totaled 60 tackles with 10 tackles-for-loss and three sacks during his senior season for head coach Kevin Wright … had 172 tackles for his career at IMG… IMG has been unbeaten in each of the last three years and been ranked in the top-five nationally in each of those seasons … Vincent started his prep career in Baltimore, Md., at the Gilman School.

Personal: parents are Tommi and Troy Vincent … father played football at Wisconsin and was a five-time NFL Pro Bowler for the Philadelphia Eagles.