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2014 Football

7 Evan Jackson

  • Height 6-0
  • Weight 195
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Choate Rosemary Hall

Biography

Career Accolades: Two-time Ivy League champion (2010, 2012) ... Two-time second-team All-Ivy (2013, 2014) ... 2014 team co-captain ... Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 21, 2013) ... Finished with 164 tackles (104 solo), 2.0 tackles for loss, 14 passes defended, a forced fumble, one fumble recovery and two interceptions in 34 career games.

2014: Second-team All-Ivy ... Team co-captain ... Started all 10 games ... Led team and finished fourth in the Ivy League with 79 tackles ... Also finished with four pass breakups ... Had at least four tackles in every game ... Career-high 17 tackles against Brown (Nov. 1) ... Added 10 tackles and a forced fumble at Princeton (Nov. 8) ... Had six tackles and a fumble recovery against No. 6 Villanova (Sept. 27).

2013: Second-team All-Ivy ... Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 21) ... Played and started nine games ... Missed one game due to injury ... Second on the team in tackles (59) and interceptions (2) ... Led team and finished seventh in the Ivy League with seven passes defended ... Had at least five tackles in every game he played ... Pulled down an inteception in the season opening win over Lafayette (Sept. 21) ... Also had a pick at Columbia (Oct. 19) ... Career-high 10 tackles at Brown (Nov. 2) ... Tallied nine tackles on Homecoming against Princeton (Nov. 9).

2012: Played in eight games and started three for the Ivy League champions ... Finished with 16 tackles (eight solo) and a pass breakup ... Had a tackle in each of the first six games he played, including a season-best five tackles in Homecoming win over Brown (Oct. 27) ... Also had four tackles against Villanova (Sept. 22) ... Added two tackles and a pass breakup in win over Columbia (Oct. 13).

2011: Played in three games before missing the remainder of the season due to injury ... Career-high six tackles in season opener against Lafayette (Sept. 17) ... Also had a tackle versus Villanova (Sept. 24).

2010: Played in four games as a freshman ... Collected three tackles and two pass breakups  ... Had two tackles in win at Bucknell (Oct. 9) and also recorded a tackle in season finale at Cornell (Nov. 20) ... Had a pass breakup at Princeton (Nov. 6) and in the win over Cornell.

Choate Rosemary Hall: Lettered in football all four years and lettered in track for three years ... Served as captain for both football and track teams ... 2009 first-team all-New England Defense ... 2009 Team MVP ... Three-time Thomas McKay MVP as team's top defensive back ... National Football Foundation Scholar Athlete.

Personal: Son of Gail and Victor Jackson ... Uncle, Donald Hatter, played on both the football and track & field teams at Penn ... Enrolled in Wharton.

Career Stats: 

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201043030.0200000
201133470.0000000
2012888160.0100000
201394415591.0700002
2014104633791.0411000
TOTAL34104601642.01411002

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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2010Freshman

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    6'0" 190 lbs
    12
  • 37

    2011Sophomore

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    6'0" 200 lbs
    37
  • 37

    2012Junior

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    5'0" 195 lbs
    37
  • 7

    2013Senior

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    6'0" 195 lbs
    7
  • 7

    2014Senior

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    6'0" 195 lbs
    7