CFL: 1st season
Stamps: 1st season

Acquired
Signed as a free agent on Jan. 25, 2021.

Pro path
Ballard signed with the National Football League’s Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent on Apr. 28, 2019, and was released on Aug. 31, 2019. In 2020, he played five games for the XFL’s Houston Roughnecks and recorded four tackles.

College
In 27 games over two seasons (2017-18) at Utah, Ballard tallied 115 tackles including five tackles for loss, three interceptions, one pass breakup and one sack. As a senior in 2018, he was named a Pac-12 honourable mention after making 13 starts for the Utes and totaling 70 tackles. Prior to Utah, Ballard spent two seasons with the Blinn College Buccaneers in Brenham, Tex. In 2016, he made 41 tackles, eight pass breakups, five sacks, three interceptions and one forced fumble and was named first-team all-conference and the co-defensive player of the year for the Southwest Junior College Football Conference.

Personal
Ballard attended Summer Creek High School in Houston and helped lead his team to a district title in 2013. He was first-team all-district in 2014. He was honourable mention all-district on the basketball court for Summer Creek. Ballard majored in sociology at Utah.