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Cornerback • Second NFL season
A Wildcat in Tampa Bay
Jacob Parrish
- Born
- February 29, 2004 • Age 22
- Hometown
- Olathe, Kansas
- Listed size
- 5 feet 10 inches • 198 pounds
- High school
- Olathe North High School • Olathe, Kansas
- College
- Kansas State University • Playing seasons: 2022–2024
- NFL Draft
- 2025 • Round 3 • Pick 84 • Tampa Bay
- Buccaneers career
- 2025–present
- Jersey
- No. 25
- Current status
- Active roster • As of November 3, 2026
Birthdate: 2026 Buccaneers media guide. Background: Kansas State player biography. Current listing: official Buccaneers profile and current roster.
Milestone sources: draft selection and Combine time, NFL experience and Kansas State career interceptions.
Playing cornerback involves more than matching a receiver’s speed. It means recognizing a route, reacting to the ball and being ready to tackle when the play comes your way. Jacob Parrish brought that variety to Tampa Bay’s secondary as a rookie, working in the slot and outside. The club’s review of his first season highlighted quick feet, changes of direction and an ability to disrupt receivers. No. 25 gave the Krewe a young defender with several ways to contribute. Tampa Bay’s rookie-season assessment.
Kansas roots • A Buccaneers career
From Olathe to the NFL
Olathe North roots A player on both sides.
At Olathe North High School in Kansas, Parrish played defensive back, running back and receiver. His 1,313 career receiving yards set a school record. Basketball and track also formed part of his high-school athletic life. Kansas State’s background biography.
Three seasons in Manhattan Kansas State, 2022–2024.
Parrish left Kansas State after his junior season with 38 appearances, 24 starts and five interceptions. Four of those picks came in 2023, including two against Texas. He followed that season with a career-best 50 tackles in 2024. The progression gave Tampa Bay a cornerback with substantial college experience while still early in his football career. The Wildcats’ draft-day account.
Tampa Bay makes the call April 25, 2025.
The Buccaneers selected Parrish in the third round, 84th overall. His 4.35-second 40-yard dash at the 2025 NFL Scouting Combine supplied a clear measure of his speed. Tampa Bay also valued his quickness, toughness and ability to support the run, qualities that mattered alongside the stopwatch. The club’s selection announcement.
He signed his initial four-year NFL contract on May 8, ahead of rookie minicamp. The signing announcement and official transaction record.
Recognition along the way
Recognition in the Big 12 2023 and 2024.
Conference coaches selected Parrish for honorable mention All-Big 12 recognition in 2023 and again in 2024. Those honors accompanied his two seasons as a Kansas State starter. K-State’s account of his 2023 season and the 2024 honors announcement.
An NFL rookie honor The 2025 season.
Parrish earned a place on the 2025 Pro Football Writers of America All-Rookie Team at cornerback. The selection gave his first professional season a national distinction and another marker in the move from college starter to NFL contributor. His official Buccaneers biography.
November 16, 2025 • Tampa Bay at Buffalo
His first NFL interception
A rookie milestone
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FIRST NFL INTERCEPTION
A pick against Josh Allen • A three-yard return
Final score: Buffalo 44 • Tampa Bay 32.
On November 16, 2025, at Buffalo, Parrish collected his first NFL interception on the Bills’ opening possession. With Josh Allen under pressure near his own goal line, Parrish gathered the throw at Buffalo’s 10-yard line and returned it to the seven. Tampa Bay turned the short field into a 23-yard Chase McLaughlin field goal and a 3–0 lead. The Buccaneers’ game account.
The final result was a 44–32 Buffalo victory, so this milestone belongs within a difficult team afternoon. Parrish also recorded three defensive tackles, including two for loss. His first interception and those stops show the different assignments a corner can face in one game: finish a turnover, then keep coming forward against the next play. The original NFL gamebook.
Tampa Bay • 2025–present
A larger role in year two
In Tampa Bay’s review of his rookie year, Parrish credited film study for his Week 18 interception against Carolina. The receiver’s alignment and release helped him anticipate the route. Preparation was part of the play before the ball arrived. His explanation in the club’s season review.
As of November 3, 2026, Parrish is an active Buccaneers cornerback wearing No. 25. The current team roster.
Through the November 1 Week 8 game, he has seven appearances, all starts, with 36 defensive tackles, 13 passes defensed and two interceptions. That starting workload gives his second season a different shape from his first. The game-by-game ledger below records the individual performances.
The person behind No. 25
Roots, family and life beyond football
Parrish was born in Jefferson City, Missouri, and lists Olathe, Kansas, as his hometown. His parents are Jason and Ginger, and he has four siblings. His older brother Jevon wrestled at Nebraska. The university’s family biography.
A fast family finish Kansas state track, 2022.
At the 2022 Class 6A state meet, Jacob won the 100 and 200 meters. Younger brothers Josh and Jason added three more individual titles between them, helping Olathe North win the team championship. The state association’s report described the brothers pushing one another in practice. For the Parrishes, that state title was a shared family achievement. The official state-meet report.
Helping the next corner Leadership at Kansas State.
In August 2024, coach Van Malone singled out Parrish’s growing responsibility within the cornerback group. He described a player who helped the teammates behind him and encouraged them to match his effort. That is another part of development: learning a job well enough to help someone else improve at it. Malone’s assessment of his leadership.
Joining a home build Tampa, November 18, 2025.
During his rookie season, Parrish joined teammates at a Habitat for Humanity of Tampa Bay Hillsborough home build. The Buccaneers’ photographs document his participation alongside fellow players and volunteers. It is a glimpse of his first season in Tampa beyond the stadium. The team’s home-build gallery.
NFL regular season • Career through 2026
The NFL career record
These regular-season tables cover two NFL playing seasons, 2025–2026, both with Tampa Bay. The asterisk marks the incomplete 2026 season, through November 1, Week 8. Preseason figures are excluded.
| Season | G | GS | DEF Solo | DEF Ast | DEF TKL | ST TKL | TFL | QB hits | Sacks | Sack YDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | 5 | 46 | 22 | 68 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2.0 | 18.0 |
| 2026* | 7 | 7 | 30 | 6 | 36 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| NFL career | 24 | 12 | 76 | 28 | 104 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 2.0 | 18.0 |
G = games played; GS = starts; DEF = defense; ST = special teams. DEF Solo + DEF Ast = DEF TKL. TFL = tackles for loss, including sacks; QB hits = hits on the quarterback; Sack YDS = credited yards lost.
The detailed team guide separates 68 defensive tackles and eight special-teams tackles in 2025. Their sum is the 76 total tackles quoted in rookie summaries. Through the current cutoff, the corresponding career totals are 104 DEF and eight ST tackles, or 112 across both phases.
Sources: 2026 Buccaneers guide, PDF p. 201, with the rookie defensive total independently repeated in the team table, PDF p. 292, and the original 2026 gamebooks below. The career website’s 2025 row mixes tackle scopes; this page consistently uses the guide’s DEF/ST separation.
| Season | PD | INT | INT YDS | INT AVG | INT LNG | INT TD | FF | FR | FR YDS | FR TD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1.5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026* | 13 | 2 | 8 | 4.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NFL career | 20 | 4 | 11 | 2.8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
PD = passes defended, including interceptions; INT = interceptions; YDS, AVG and LNG describe the return; TD = return touchdowns; FF = forced fumbles; FR = recoveries of opponents’ fumbles. His four career interceptions produced 11 return yards. The average is 11 ÷ 4, rounded to 2.8; the long is the maximum return, eight yards.
His only fumble recovery was on defense against Atlanta on December 11, 2025, with no return yardage. No interception or fumble-return touchdown is credited. Historical blocked-kick totals are not supplied by the selected annual table and are omitted.
Sources: the guide’s interception and recovery tables, PDF p. 201, the Atlanta gamebook defensive recovery, PDF p. 6 and the current gamebooks.
NFL postseason
No NFL postseason appearances through November 1, 2026. Tampa Bay missed the playoffs after his 2025 rookie season, and the 2026 postseason had not occurred by this page’s cutoff. The club’s January 5, 2026 season-end confirmation.
September 13–November 1, 2026
Seven starts through Week 8
| Week | Date | Opponent | TB result | Status | G | GS | DEF snaps | ST snaps | DEF TKL | ST TKL | TFL | PD | INT | INT YDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 13 | @CIN | L 27–33 | Starter | 1 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Sep 20 | CLE | L 19–23 | Inactive | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Sep 27 | MIN | L 16–23 | Starter | 1 | 1 | 59 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Oct 4 | GB | L 14–17 | Starter | 1 | 1 | 59 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 5 | Oct 8 | @DAL | W 24–16 | Starter | 1 | 1 | 58 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Oct 18 | PIT | L 19–26 OT | Starter | 1 | 1 | 78 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Oct 25 | @CAR | W 43–13 | Starter | 1 | 1 | 56 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | Nov 1 | ATL | W 16–0 | Starter | 1 | 1 | 51 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 total | Through Nov 1 | Tampa Bay | — | 7 starts | 7 | 7 | 381 | 24 | 36 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 8 |
Parrish started seven of the first eight team games. He was inactive against Cleveland in Week 2 because of a back injury; that row’s dashes mark a nonappearance. The other seven rows are actual starts. The official Week 2 inactive report.
The actual appearances total 30 solo tackles plus six assists = 36 defensive tackles, with no special-teams tackle credit. He added three TFL, 13 PD and two interceptions. The interceptions came against Green Bay and Atlanta; the Atlanta return gained zero yards, which remains a valid interception.
The gamebooks’ unofficial playtime reports total 381 defensive snaps and 24 special-teams snaps. No sack, QB hit, forced fumble or opponent fumble recovery is credited in this current-season span.
Results are from Tampa Bay’s perspective; @ = away; OT = overtime. CIN = Cincinnati; CLE = Cleveland; MIN = Minnesota; GB = Green Bay; DAL = Dallas; PIT = Pittsburgh; CAR = Carolina; ATL = Atlanta.
Original final gamebooks: Week 1 · Week 2 · Week 3 · Week 4 · Week 5 · Week 6 · Week 7 · Week 8. G = actual appearances; GS = starts; the remaining abbreviations follow the career tables.
Kansas State University • 2022–2024
The Kansas State record
Parrish played three Kansas State seasons, 2022–2024, appearing in 38 games with 24 starts. His actual Big 12 Championship and bowl appearances are already included in the annual and career totals. Kansas State’s career summary at the time of his draft selection.
| Season | G | GS | Solo | Ast | TKL | TFL | TFL YDS | Sacks | Sack YDS | QB hurries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 14 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 12 | 12 | 37 | 7 | 44 | 2.5 | 3 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | 12 | 12 | 40 | 10 | 50 | 2.5 | 9 | 0.0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kansas State career | 38 | 24 | 88 | 20 | 108 | 5.0 | 12 | 0.5 | 1 | 5 |
G = games played; GS = starts; Solo + Ast = TKL. TFL includes sacks; YDS = credited yards lost. The original final records total 88 solo tackles plus 20 assists = 108 tackles, with 5.0 TFL for 12 yards and 0.5 sack for one yard. College QB hurries are a separate category from NFL QB hits.
Original annual records: 2022 final defense, PDF p. 7 · 2023 final defense, PDF p. 7 · 2024 final defense, PDF p. 7. The participation chart on PDF p. 20 of each report verifies games and starts. The college tables do not provide an NFL-style DEF/ST tackle split.
| Season | PBU | INT | PD | INT YDS | INT AVG | INT LNG | INT TD | FF | FR | BLK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 53 | 13.3 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kansas State career | 19 | 5 | 24 | 53 | 10.6 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
PBU = pass breakups, excluding interceptions; PD = PBU + INT. Parrish’s 19 breakups and five interceptions therefore total 24 passes defended. His interceptions produced 53 return yards, with a long of 26. FF = forced fumbles; FR = recoveries; BLK = blocked kicks. His lone fumble recovery gained no yardage, and no defensive touchdown is recorded.
The 2023 return total reconciles across the original books: zero yards against UCF, 37 at Texas and 16 in the Pop-Tarts Bowl = 53 yards. Those returns are already in the annual total.
During his second interception return at Texas, Parrish fumbled and teammate Colby McCalister recovered. It was not a lost fumble. The original play-by-play, PDF p. 15 documents the event; no unsupported career total for fumbles committed is inferred from it.
College championship and bowl appearances
| Season | Date | Game | Opponent | KSU result | G | GS | TKL | TFL | Sacks | PBU | INT | INT YDS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Dec 3, 2022 | Big 12 Championship | TCU | W 31–28 (OT) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Dec 31, 2022 | Sugar Bowl | Alabama | L 20–45 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Dec 28, 2023 | Pop-Tarts Bowl | NC State | W 28–19 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| Postseason subset | — | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 10 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
These three actual appearances are a subset of his college career: reserve appearances in the Big 12 Championship and Sugar Bowl, followed by a Pop-Tarts Bowl start. The Sugar Bowl remains in the record even though he had no credited defensive counting statistic.
In the Pop-Tarts Bowl, he made six tackles, shared a sack credited for one yard and returned an interception 16 yards. The shared sack is already included in his 0.5 TFL; those categories are not added together. The combined subset has ten tackles and one interception.
Original gamebooks: 2022 Big 12 Championship, defense PDF p. 4 / participation p. 5 · 2022 Sugar Bowl, defense PDF p. 7 / participation p. 8 · 2023 Pop-Tarts Bowl, defense PDF p. 4 / participation p. 5. Results are from Kansas State’s perspective; OT = overtime.
The 2024 Rate Bowl is excluded: the final tackle log, PDF p. 25 marks DNP, and the gamebook participation list does not record an appearance. Kansas State’s bowl preview reported his decision to go pro.
Sources & statistical notes
The records behind the spotlight
- Buccaneers player biography and active roster
- Kansas State biography and draft-day career review
- Buffalo game account and original NFL gamebook
- Kansas state track report and Habitat home-build gallery
- NFL statistics: The 2026 Buccaneers media guide and eight original 2026 gamebooks. Defensive and special-teams tackles are separated consistently. The Buffalo first-interception and Atlanta recovery gamebooks provide the featured-play evidence. Inactive weeks are distinguished from played games.
- College statistics: Three original Kansas State final-season reports, three actual championship or bowl gamebooks, and the UCF and Texas interception-return records. Annual games and starts reconcile; the zero-stat Sugar Bowl appearance is retained and the Rate Bowl nonappearance is excluded.
- Portrait: the current official Tampa Bay Buccaneers roster image.
Updated November 3, 2026. NFL regular-season statistics stop after November 1, Week 8; preseason is excluded. NFL postseason status is stated separately. College championship and bowl appearances are subsets already included in Kansas State’s annual and career totals. Defensive and special-teams tackles are separated in the NFL records. Return averages use yards divided by returns; longest gains use the maximum qualifying play.