The grandson of Terry Benton, Cachia played school football for St Kevin's College before joining the Northern Knights.
[6] Cachia made his senior AFL debut for Carlton in Round 6, 2013,[7] and played regularly for most of the rest of the season, managing a total of fourteen games.
He remained on the Carlton list in 2014, but did not play another senior game and was delisted at the end of the year.
[8] Since leaving the AFL system, Cachia has played for the Richmond reserves in the VFL (2015),[9] another stint at Norwood (2016),[10] Strathmore (2017–18) and Aberfeldie (2019) in the Essendon District Football League,[11] Golden Square in the Bendigo Football League (where he signed in 2020 but never played because the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and St Kevin's Old Boys in the VAFA (2021).
[12] Jaryd Cachia's profile on the official website of the Carlton Football Club