Rueben Bain Jr.: DL · Miami · #4.
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Rueben Bain Jr.
Disrupts the pocket from the interior. Three seasons in the Miami defensive front to date. Ted Hendricks Defensive End Award in 2025 made it three straight seasons on the honors list. On tape: 8 tackles and 2.5 tackles for loss against Indiana, Bowl, 2025.
Play style
Disruptive interior rusher who lives in the backfield.
Activity vs finishing · season enumeration
What the box score actually says
54 tackles. 1 pass defended. 1 interception. 15.5 TFL.
Counts only, never a rate — splash-event sample sizes this small (interceptions, pass breakups, TFL) are noise as a rate and signal only as a tally.
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2025 season · 15 games
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| Wk | Opp | TKL | SOLO | TFL | SACK | INT | PD | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 27-24vs No. 6 Notre Dame | 6 | 3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 2.5 TFL |
| Wk 2 | W 45-3vs Bethune-Cookman | 3 | 2 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 49-12vs No. 18 South Florida | 6 | 2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | — | 1 | |
| Wk 4 | W 26-7vs Florida | 7 | 4 | 1.0 | 0.5 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 6 | W 28-22@ No. 18 Florida State | 4 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 8 | L 21-24vs Louisville | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 9 | W 42-7vs Stanford | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 10 | L 20-26@ SMU | 2 | 1 | 1.5 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 11 | W 38-10vs Syracuse | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 13 | W 34-17@ Virginia Tech | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
| Wk 14 | W 38-7@ No. 24 Pittsburgh | 5 | 4 | 1.5 | 1.5 | — | 0 | |
| Bowl | W 10-3@ No. 7 Texas A&M | 5 | 4 | 4.0 | 3.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 24-14vs No. 3 Ohio State | 3 | 1 | 1.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | W 31-27vs No. 6 Ole Miss | 1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | 0 | |
 Bowl | L 21-27vs No. 1 Indiana | 8 | 5 | 2.5 | 1.0 | — | 0 | |
| Total | 54 | 30 | 15.5 | 9.5 | 1 | 1 |
Bowl · 2025
W 10-3
at Texas A&M
3 sacks · 4 tackles for loss · 5 tackles
A close one, won by 7 on the road.
Where his impact shows up on the stat sheet
TFL rate
29%16 TFLSack rate
18%10 sacksHurry rate
9%5 hurries54 tackles · 15.5 for loss · 9.5 sacks · 1 interception.
3 seasons under Mario Cristobal, all balanced offenses — 30-12 over that span.
Splits · Per-game
2025 season · 15 games
Home vs Road
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 3.6 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.1 |
| Road5g | 3.4 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.0 |
First half vs Second half
| TKL/g | TFL/g | SACK/g | PD/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-79g | 4.8 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.1 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Mario Cristobal
Pass share
47.2%
496 pass / 554 run
Plays / game
65.6
16 games
Team sack rate
2.5%
393 dropbacks · PBP
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2025
First team on a majority of the recognized selector lists.
Recognition
Production · CFB Zeitgeist Score
Former four-star. Now #4 at the position.
Selector Grid · 2025
Named Consensus All-American — recognized on 3+ of the 5 NCAA-recognized selector lists.
How it ended
Three seasons at Miami, 20 sacks, the Ted Hendricks Award (2025) — drafted at #15 overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Honored in a first season.
Trophy case · Confirmed honors
What the selectors said
ALL-AMERICA · CONSENSUS
Consensus AA (2025)
5 first-team selectors
National awards
Hendricks, Ted Hendricks Defensive End
2025 season
ALL-ACC · 1ST TEAM
All-ACC 1st team (2025)
Weekly recognition
2 weekly honors (2025)
4 career weekly honors across 2 seasons
Coaching lineage · 2023–2025
1 coachPlayed every college season under Mario Cristobal.
Next stop · NFL
Tampa Bay Buccaneers2026 NFL rookie season
Tampa Bay Buccaneers2026 NFL rookie season
