21 Facts About Jason Street

Jason Street is portrayed as a confident, affable, charismatic and popular all-American high school student from a middle-class home with loving and supportive, although sometimes over-protective, parents.

Jason Street is presumably the only child of Mitchell and Joanne Street.

Early in season 1, it is established that Jason Street is a seventeen-year-old high school senior at Dillon High School and by Season 3 he is around age twenty.

Jason Street begins the series as the senior starting quarterback of the Dillon Panthers.

Jason Street is ranked as one of the top high school quarterbacks in the nation, with a scholarship offer to the University of Notre Dame, but during the first game of the season he suffers a severe spinal cord injury while successfully tackling a defender in what would have been a game-ending touchdown.

Jason Street was diagnosed with a spinal cord injury at the C-7 and T-1 level, rendering him paralyzed from the chest down with use of his arms and hands and limited use of his fingers.

Jason Street confronts Lyla about it, but she lies and is not cheating on him.

Jason Street is not convinced and he slugs Tim and challenges him to a fight, a fight that Tim walks away from out of shame and guilt over his actions.

Jason Street tries his best to hate Lyla for her part in the affair, but comes to admit that he still loves her and proposes to her.

Jason Street puts an end to the lawsuit and writes out an undisclosed amount, which he says is enough to cover his parents' mortgage and debt incurred by his medical expenses, to which the school officials agree.

Jason Street is instrumental in the Panthers' winning the State Championship and the first season ends with Jason Street giving the team a pep talk about preparing for the next season.

Jason Street spends the beginning of the second season as an assistant to the Panthers' new head coach Bill McGregor, but leaves after the first game as he did not agree with Coach McGregor's style and favoritism toward and over-reliance on Brian "Smash" Williams.

Jason Street regains feeling back in his right hand and learns of a dangerous experimental surgery being conducted by a clinic in Mexico that can possibly help him walk again.

Jason Street calls Lyla for help after failing to dissuade Jason from following through with the surgery.

Later in the season, Jason Street meets a waitress named Erin during a blind date gone bad.

Jason Street is shown to be a great father and has come to love Erin very much.

Jason Street meets Grant, a sports agent, at Dillon High School during practice one day, who gives Jason Street his card and tells him to look him up whenever he is in New York City.

Jason Street updates Coach Taylor on his life so far: he and Erin have since married, Noah is a toddler and is learning how to throw a football, Erin wants to have another child and, recently, he was promoted to a full-fledged sports agent.

Later he drops by East Dillon to watch a practice session and Vince Howard's father, Ornette, is seen standing at the sidelines over-enthusiastically trying to convince Jason Street to look at Vince and recommend him to top colleges, much to Jason Street and Coach Taylor's concern.

Jason Street is briefly mentioned in the next several episodes as he has recommended Coach Taylor to a state university in Florida, who decides to pursue Taylor and tries to convince him to sign with them.

Porter was praised by paralyzed viewers of the show for his "inspiring and believable" portrayal of a quadriplegic in the first season when Jason Street is first injured and then endures several months in rehab.