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2019 Football

20 Jacob Martin

  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 210
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Buford, Ga.
  • Highschool Buford

Biography

Career Accolades: 2018 Honorable Mention All-Ivy ... 2016 Ivy League Champion

2019: Appeared in one game, seeing action against Brown (11/02).
 
2018: Honorable mention All-Ivy … Started all 10 games at free safety … Second on team with 77 tackles … Had two interceptions and four pass breakups … Recovered one fumble … Made five tackles and intercepted a pass against Bucknell (9/15) … Had seven tackles with an interception against Lehigh (9/22) … Made 18 total tackles, including 11 solo stops, with a pass breakup at Dartmouth (9/29) … Had five tackles and a pass breakup at Sacred Heart (10/6) … Had five tackles against Columbia (10/13) … Was in on seven tackles against Yale (10/19) … Had three solo tackles and a fumble recovery at Brown (10/27) … Had 11 total tackles, with eight solo stops, at Cornell (11/2) … Hade six tackle against Harvard (11/10) .. Was in on 10 tackles with a pass breakup at Princeton (11/17).

2017: Appeared in all 10 games, starting the final three … Finished with 37 total tackles and four pass breakups … Had two solo tackles against Ohio Dominican (9/16) … Had two solo stops against Dartmouth (9/29) … Was in on nine tackles against Yale (10/21) … Had a forced fumble, fumble recovery and pass breakup against Yale … Was in on five tackles with a pass breakup at Brown (10/28) … Made three solo tackles against Princeton (11/4) … Factored in on eight tackles with a forced fumble and pass breakup at Harvard (11/11) … Made six tackles and had game-saving pass breakup in the endzone on the final play against Cornell (11/18).

2016: Appeared in first four games before suffering season-ending injury.

Buford: Two-year letterwinner … Played on 2013 and 2014 undefeated state champions … 2015 team was state runners-up … 2015 second-team All-Region at linebacker … Earned 2015 Coaches Award as Most Improved Player … Earned two Player of the Week awards and one Player of the Month award from Gwinnett County Touchdown Club … FCA leader … National Honor Society member … AP Scholar … Principal’s Honor Roll student.

Personal: Son of Heather and Jay Martin … Father, Jay, played football at Georgia Tech where he won the 1990 national championship … Grandfather, Billy, also played football at Georgia Tech (1959-63) and played five years in the NFL with the Chicago Bears, Minnesota Vikings, and Atlanta Falcons … Enrolled in Wharton.
 

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Historical Player Information

  • 2

    2016Freshman

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    6'1" 195 lbs
    2
  • 20

    2017Sophomore

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    6'1" 195 lbs
    20
  • 20

    2018Junior

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    6'1" 195 lbs
    20
  • 20

    2019Senior

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    6'1" 210 lbs
    20