Jordan Jenkins in the NFL
In the NFL. Photo: All-Pro Reels, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Linebacker, Georgia, 2012–⁠15

Jordan Jenkins

Number
No. 59
Height
6′3″
Hometown
Hamilton, GA
Born
Jul 1, 1994, in Houston, Texas

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Jordan Jenkins played linebacker at Georgia (2012–⁠15). The New York Jets took Jenkins in round 3, No. 83 overall in the 2016 NFL Draft.

At a glance

Best season
2013
Second-team All-SEC
Drafted
No. 83
Round 3, 2016 NFL Draft (New York Jets)

Honors

Returns

SeasonTeamKRYdsTD
2014*Georgia100

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.

Defense before 2016

SeasonGSoloAstTklTFLSacksPBUFFHur
201214181331852116
2013N1331144512521–
On file492776201042–

Our box scores carry tackles, tackles for loss and sacks from 2016 only, so these come from other sources, marked by season: unmarked, cfbstats.com (Open Data Commons Attribution License), its game lines summed (G: the games he has a line in); N, NCAA statistics, via octonion/football, the season’s official lines (G: games played). A dash: the source has no number for it.

On the roster

SeasonTeamNo.PosHt
2012Georgia59OLB
2013Georgia59OLB
2014Georgia59OLB
2015Georgia59OLB6′3″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2014 Georgia 1 game, 1 return, 0 yards
DateOpponentResultKRYdsTD
Nov 8atKentuckyW 63–⁠31100

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

Played in the 2016 Senior Bowl (South team, won 27–⁠16).

DrillCombine 2016Combine or pro day 2016
Height6′2⅝″
Weight259 lb
Arm length34¼″
Hand size11¼″
40-yard dash4.80 s
10-yard split1.64 s
Vertical jump36½″
Broad jump10′1″
Bench press16 reps
3-cone drill7.39 s
20-yard shuttle4.32 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

6 seasons, 76 games with a stat; latest team: Las Vegas Raiders.

SeasonTeamGTklSacksInt
2016New York Jets13412.50
2017New York Jets154730
2018New York Jets163370
2019New York Jets143080
2020New York Jets83120
2021Houston Texans10192.50
NFL career76201250

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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