Cal running back Jaydn Ott announced Friday morning that he will return to Cal for the 2024 season. Ott has produced numbers over his first two seasons with the Golden Bears that make him a viable candidate for the Heisman Trophy when the 2024 season kicks off next August.

He's baaaaaaack ??

More special @THEJAYDNOTT moments coming to stadiums near you in 2024 #GoBears pic.twitter.com/FYzQepPPRT

— Cal Football (@CalFootball) December 15, 2023

Below are notes on Ott with an extended bio available by clicking on his name.
 
Jaydn Ott, RB, 6-0, 200, So., 2nd Season At Cal (Chino, Calif./Norco HS/Bishop Gorman HS)
– A first-team All-Pac-12 selection of the league's coaches and the Associated Press, among others, while also being selected as a finalist for the Polynesian College Football Player of the Year Award as a 2023 sophomore
– Has rushed 229 times for 1,260 yards with 11 touchdowns on the ground (all career highs), while adding 21 receptions for 141 yards and two touchdown catches, as well as one kick return for 100 yards and one touchdown on his lone career kick return at any level of football to total a career-high 1,501 all-purpose yards, as well as a career-high 14 touchdowns overall
– Ranks among Pac-12 and NCAA leaders in rushing yards per game (114.5, No. 1 Pac-12, No. 7 NCAA), all-purpose yards per game (136.45, No. 1 Pac-12, No. 8 NCAA), rushing yards (No. 1 Pac-12, No. 13 NCAA), total touchdowns (14, No. 2T, No. 22T NCAA), rushing touchdowns (No. 2T Pac-12, No. 35T NCAA), scoring (7.6 ppg, No. 3 Pac-12, No. 46 NCAA) and rush yards per carry (5.50, No. 6 Pac-12, No. 48 NCAA)
– His 1,000-yard rushing season is the 19th in Cal history and the first since Patrick Laird in 2017 (17 Cal players have recorded 1,000 rushing yards or more in a season with Marshawn Lynch and Russell White each doing it twice)
– Has career totals of 2,157 rushing yards and 19 touchdowns on 399 carries with averages of 5.4 yards per carry and 93.8 yards per game, while adding 67 receptions for 486 yards and five touchdowns, as well as one kick return for 100 yards and one touchdown to total 2,743 all-purpose yards and 25 touchdowns, as well as one two-point conversion to total 152 points