Jadon Jackson

Photo by: Conor Kvatek / Kansas State Athl

Photo by: © Chandler Mixon/K-State Sports

Photo by: © Austin Van Meter/K-State Sports

Position:
Wide Receiver
Height:
6-1
Weight:
190
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Centeron, Ark.
High School:
Bentonville West
Prev School:
Univ. of Mississippi

CAREER HONORS
• 2024 Academic All-Big 12

CAREER: Saw action in 51 games with 13 starts over parts of six seasons at both Ole Miss and Kansas State... Spent his final three seasons at K-State, playing in 29 games with nine starts.

2024: A member of the regular rotation as he saw time in 12 games with three starts, hauling in 15 passes for 207 yards and a touchdown while rushing twice for nine yards... Set a career high with 84 receiving yards at West Virginia, a game that included a career-long catch of 60 yards that went for a touchdown... At the time, it was the longest reception by a K-State wide receiver since Malik Knowles had a 62-yarder against Texas in 2022... Posted a career-high five catches against Oklahoma State.

2023: Played in all 13 games with six starts, hauling in 19 passes for 252 yards and two touchdowns... Also rushed four times for 36 yards on the season... Tied his career high with four catches against both Troy and Missouri, the former in which he set a career high with 77 receiving yards... Had a career-long tying catch of 40 yards against Baylor, a game in which he had 53 total receiving yards... Had a career-high 15 rushing yards against Houston and a career-long rush of 14 yards the week prior against TCU... Opened the scoring in each of the first two games of the season, the first Wildcat to have the first touchdown in each of the first two games of a season since Darren Sproles in 2003 against California and Troy.

2022: Played in four games, including the Sugar Bowl against Alabama when he caught two passes for 16 yards... Also saw time as a reserve wide receiver at Baylor and on special teams against Oklahoma and Texas Tech.

2021 AT UNIV. OF MISSISSIPPI: Saw time in nine games, earning starts at Alabama, against LSU and at Auburn... Totaled five catches on the year for 42 yards... Had a career-high tying four catches for 30 yards at Alabama.

2020 AT UNIV. OF MISSISSIPPI: Played in four games with a start against Indiana in the Outback Bowl... Helped the Rebels earn a victory in the Outback Bowl as he had four catches for 38 yards, both career highs.

2019 AT UNIV. OF MISSISSIPPI: Saw time in nine games during his true freshman season... Hauled in his first-career reception on a 28-yard touchdown at Alabama... Came back with another 28-yard reception the next week against Vanderbilt... Also had two catches for 25 yards against New Mexico State.

HIGH SCHOOL: Played at Bentonville West under head coach Bryan Pratt... Rated the 50th-best wide receiver and fourth-best overall prospect in the state of Arkansas for the Class of 2019 by Rivals... Also regarded as one of the top 500 prospects nationally in the Class of 2019 by 247Sports... A three-time all-state selection who was named the Arkansas Class 7A Player of the Year as a junior in 2017... Totaled 3,202 receiving yards and 35 touchdowns over his three-year prep career... Caught 61 passes for 1,439 and 14 touchdowns during his junior season... Also ran track.

PERSONAL: Jadon Jackson was born October 9, 2000, in York, Pennsylvania... Son of Darnell Jackson and Bilan Nelson... Majoring in social transformational studies.