page_title: Ronnie Yell
section_title: College career
hierarchical_section_title: Ronnie Yell / College career
caption_attribution_description: English: San Jose State defensive back Ronnie Yell before a 2012 football game vs Colorado State University.
context_page_description: Ronald Irving Yell is an American defensive back but is currently a free agent in the Canadian Football League. The last team he played for was the Toronto Argonauts. Yell played college football at San Jose State and began his professional football career in 2013 with the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He then joined the BC Lions late in the 2013 season.
context_section_description: Yell attended San Jose State University and played for the Spartans football team as a defensive back, in 2009 under coach Dick Tomey and from 2010 to 2012 under Mike MacIntyre. As a freshman, Yell played 10 games and started at cornerback in the last six games of 2009 and had 19 tackles and a pass deflected. Yell also became the punt return specialist late in 2009. San Jose State finished the 2009 season 2–10.
  In 2010, his sophomore year, Yell played all 13 games and started 10. He had 44 tackles (3 for loss), 11 passes deflected, and one interception. He returned one punt for six yards and 32 kickoffs for 645 yards (an average 20.2 yards per return). In Mike MacIntyre's first year as head coach, San Jose State went 1–12 this season.
  For his junior year in 2011, Yell played the final 10 games of the year and started 6. Yell had 37 tackles (1.5 for loss), an interception, 5 tackles, a pass deflected, and 3 punt returns for 42 yards (14 yards per carry). In San Jose State's 38–31 win over Colorado State on October 1, Yell intercepted a Colorado State pass in Colorado State's final possession to seal San Jose State's first road win in 13 games. San Jose State improved to  5–7 in 2011.
  As a senior in 2012, Yell played all 13 games and had 41 tackles, 9 passes deflected, and 15 punt returns for 42 yards (2.8 yards average). San Jose State finished the season 11–2, including a victory over Bowling Green in the 2012 Military Bowl in Washington, D. C. Yell broke up 3 passes in that game. Yell graduated from San Jose State in 2013 with a B.A. in sociology.
caption: Yell before a game in 2012 at San Jose State Spartan Stadium.
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