DeSean William Jackson was born on December 1,1986 and is an American football wide receiver who is a free agent.
81 Facts About DeSean Jackson
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DeSean Jackson played college football for the California Golden Bears, where he was recognized as a consensus All-American in 2006 and 2007.
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DeSean Jackson was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft, and has played for the Washington Redskins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Los Angeles Rams.
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DeSean Jackson was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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DeSean Jackson attended Long Beach Polytechnic High School, the same high school as future Philadelphia Eagles teammate Winston Justice and many other current NFL players.
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DeSean Jackson became one of the top wide receiver recruits in the nation, with many collegiate football programs pursuing his services.
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DeSean Jackson was named the 2004 Glenn Davis Award winner by the Los Angeles Times as Southern California's player of the year.
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DeSean Jackson ran track and played baseball and was scouted by both the Tampa Bay Rays and Philadelphia Phillies in his senior year.
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DeSean Jackson caught 60 passes for 1,075 yards for 15 touchdowns his senior year, leading the Jackrabbits to a CIF Southern Section championship.
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DeSean Jackson committed to the football program at the University of California, Berkeley under Coach Jeff Tedford, making his announcement on Southern California's FSN West.
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DeSean Jackson waited until the deadline to choose between scholarship offers for California and the University of Southern California.
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DeSean Jackson attended the University of California, where he played for the California Golden Bears football team from 2005 to 2007.
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DeSean Jackson was expected to play for Cal's baseball team but, due to the success of his freshman football season, he chose to focus exclusively on football.
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DeSean Jackson earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors as both a punt returner and a wide receiver.
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DeSean Jackson garnered national recognition with selections to first-team All-America by the Associated Press, Walter Camp Football Foundation, the Football Writers Association of America, the Sporting News, and Rivals.
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DeSean Jackson captured the inaugural Randy Moss Award as the top returner in the nation.
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In one of only two California losses in Pac-10 play, DeSean Jackson had a 95-yard punt return for a touchdown against Arizona.
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DeSean Jackson entered his junior season being considered a Heisman Trophy candidate.
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DeSean Jackson's season began promisingly, with a 77-yard punt return for a touchdown against Tennessee in the opening game of the season.
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DeSean Jackson suffered several minor injuries that limited his effectiveness at times during the season, along with a right thigh injury that forced him to miss most of the game against Washington and the Big Game against Stanford.
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DeSean Jackson missed the first quarter of the 2007 Armed Forces Bowl for violating undisclosed team rules.
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DeSean Jackson left Cal following the 2007 season and declared for the 2008 NFL Draft.
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DeSean Jackson departed holding Pac-10 records for punts returned for a touchdown both in a season and in a career.
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DeSean Jackson performed well in positional drills, running routes fluidly, and catching passes very well displaying his well-known agility and quickness.
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DeSean Jackson posted a standing broad jump of 10 feet.
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DeSean Jackson was the seventh wide receiver taken, the first time no wide receivers were drafted in the first round.
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DeSean Jackson had a good preseason performance, which included a 76-yard punt return for a touchdown against the New England Patriots in the third preseason game.
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DeSean Jackson narrowly finished second to Curtis in postseason receiving yards with 207 to Curtis's 211.
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DeSean Jackson finished a successful rookie season with two receiving touchdowns and a team-leading 62 receptions.
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DeSean Jackson led the NFL with 50 punt returns for 440 yards.
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In Week 1 against the Carolina Panthers, DeSean Jackson had his second punt return for an 85-yard touchdown, the second longest in Eagles history.
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DeSean Jackson scored his first rushing touchdown of the season on a 67-yard reverse.
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DeSean Jackson injured his right foot during the game and had an x-ray during halftime, but returned to play during the third quarter.
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DeSean Jackson was later named the NFC Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts.
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DeSean Jackson was selected to the 2010 Pro Bowl as a starting wide receiver and a kick returner, the first time in Pro Bowl history that a player was selected at two different positions.
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DeSean Jackson was selected to the Sporting News' All-Pro team as a punt returner for the 2009 season, averaging 15.2 yards per punt return in 2009 as the league leader.
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DeSean Jackson again ended the regular season as the team's leading receiver with 1,056 yards.
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DeSean Jackson was ranked 29th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2011.
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On December 19,2010, DeSean Jackson returned a punt 65 yards for a touchdown to lead the Eagles to a win against the New York Giants in the final 14 seconds of the game.
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DeSean Jackson fumbled at first, but then picked it up and ran 65 yards for the score, running parallel to the goal line when he reached it in order to run out the clock.
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On July 28,2011, DeSean Jackson failed to report to Eagles' training camp at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania as required in his contract.
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DeSean Jackson's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, offered no immediate explanation for his absence.
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DeSean Jackson faced fines of $30,000-a-day until he reported to camp.
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DeSean Jackson ended the season as the Eagles' leading receiver with 961 yards.
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DeSean Jackson had the lowest total punt return yards of his career with 114 and did not return a punt for a touchdown during the 2011 season.
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DeSean Jackson was ranked 71st by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2012.
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DeSean Jackson received the Eagles' franchise tag on March 1,2012.
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DeSean Jackson had more than 100 yards receiving against Baltimore and New Orleans before fracturing his ribs in Week 12 against the Carolina Panthers.
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DeSean Jackson began the 2013 season with 104 yards against Washington, and followed this with career-bests in receptions yards against San Diego.
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DeSean Jackson left the Eagles with the franchise's 4th most receiving yards, 8th most receptions, 9th most receiving touchdowns, and tied for the 3rd most 100+ receiving-yard games.
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DeSean Jackson was ranked 63rd by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2014.
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The jersey that DeSean Jackson wore in that game would be featured at the Pro Football Hall of Fame after he became the third player in NFL history to record an 80-yard touchdown both for and against a team.
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On October 17,2014, DeSean Jackson was fined $16,537 for a horse-collar tackle on Arizona Cardinals safety Rashad Johnson in Week 6.
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DeSean Jackson broke 100-yards receiving in six games that season, and ended with 56 receptions for a team-leading 1,169 and six touchdowns, and led the NFL for the second time in his career with 20.9 yards per catch.
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DeSean Jackson was ranked 50th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2015.
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DeSean Jackson ended the season with 30 catches for 528 yards and 4 touchdowns.
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DeSean Jackson appeared to return to form with 6 catches for 102 yards in a season-opening loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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DeSean Jackson caught at least one pass in each of the 16 games that season, though production was lower during the season's middle.
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DeSean Jackson ended the year with 56 receptions for 1,005 yards and 4 touchdowns, leading the NFL for the third time with 17.9 yards per catch.
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On March 9,2017, DeSean Jackson signed a three-year, $33.5 million contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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DeSean Jackson surpassed 100 yards in Week 2 against the Philadelphia Eagles and Week 4 against the Chicago Bears, to enter Tampa Bay's bye-week seventh in the NFL in receiving yards and first in yards-per-reception at 24.9.
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The one receiving touchdown, a 60-yard reception in Week 8 against the Cincinnati Bengals, was DeSean Jackson's record-setting 24th NFL receiving touchdown of 60 yards or more, breaking a tie with Jerry Rice.
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The record came a week after DeSean Jackson became the 47th NFL player to reach 10,000 receiving yards.
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The 32-year-old DeSean Jackson ended the 2018 season with enough receptions to qualify as the league-leader in yards-per-reception for the fourth time in his career.
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DeSean Jackson made his return to the Eagles in Week 1 against another former team, the Washington Redskins.
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DeSean Jackson returned in Week 7, but suffered a lower body injury in the game and was placed on injured reserve on October 26,2020.
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DeSean Jackson finished the 2020 season with 14 receptions for 236 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown in five games.
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DeSean Jackson signed with the Los Angeles Rams on March 21,2021.
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DeSean Jackson recorded his first touchdown with the Rams in their Week 3 win against the Buccaneers, on a 75-yard pass from Matthew Stafford.
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On November 8,2021, DeSean Jackson signed with the Las Vegas Raiders.
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On October 18,2022, DeSean Jackson was signed to the Baltimore Ravens' practice squad.
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DeSean Jackson appeared for the first time in Week 9, and in Week 12 he caught a 62-yard pass to set up the go-ahead touchdown late in the 4th quarter against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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DeSean Jackson was signed to the Ravens' active roster on December 5,2022.
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DeSean Jackson is the son of Bill and Gayle DeSean Jackson, and his oldest brother, Byron, is a former San Jose State wide receiver who spent two seasons on the Kansas City Chiefs' practice squad.
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DeSean Jackson's father was hospitalized with pancreatic cancer during the Eagles run in the 2009 playoffs, and died on May 14,2009.
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DeSean Jackson was featured on the cover of the PlayStation 2 version of NCAA Football 09.
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DeSean Jackson took part and won a competition of Hole in the Wall in April 2011.
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DeSean Jackson has received media attention for plays that critics say show poor judgement on his part, and in particular, multiple premature celebrations which have resulted in lost touchdowns.
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DeSean Jackson posted several quotes from Louis Farrakhan on his Instagram account in which Farrakhan accused Dr Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates of desiring to "depopulate the Earth" with a COVID-19 vaccine.
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DeSean Jackson later deleted the posts in question and apologized for his statements.
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DeSean Jackson talked with a Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg and agreed to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, a museum on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp.