
Jerome McElroy brings late-season disruption to UIW’s linebacker group
McElroy looks like a **high-motor, back-half-of-the-season riser** for UIW: he opened the year with a season-high seven tackles against Sacramento State and then closed his final four games with 3.5 tackles for loss, showing he can impact plays behind the line, not just clean them up.[3] That combination of early tackling volume and late-game disruption is the kind of profile teams like in a fit-driven linebacker—physical, increasingly impactful, and trending up rather than merely padding tackle totals.[3][1]