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Primary Mark<br />
VETERANS<br />
BRANDON<br />
JACKSON<br />
RUNNING BACK<br />
NEBRASKA<br />
Ht: 5-10 Wt: 216<br />
Third <strong>NFL</strong> Season<br />
Third Packers Season<br />
Born: October 2, 1985<br />
<strong>NFL</strong> Gm. Played/Started: 24/3<br />
Acquired: D2-07<br />
Third-year back who<br />
continued to develop<br />
into his role as a viable<br />
backup to Ryan Grant in 2008, and will look to hold onto<br />
that position again this season…Finished second on the<br />
team in rushing with 248 yards and a touchdown on 45<br />
PRO<br />
career<br />
carries (5.5 avg.)…Was very productive<br />
carrying the ball in the few games where<br />
he got more extensive action…Rushed<br />
for 80 yards on 11 carries vs. Carolina<br />
(Nov. 30), 61 yards on seven attempts at Detroit (Sept.<br />
14) and 50 yards on 10 carries vs. Chicago (Nov. 16)…<br />
His 5.5-yard average was tied for fifth in the <strong>NFL</strong> for players<br />
with 45-or-more carries...Missed one game due to illness<br />
and the final two of the season with a wrist injury…<br />
In 2007, began his rookie campaign as the starting RB in<br />
an injury-depleted backfield, learning the <strong>NFL</strong> game on the<br />
fly and taking nearly all the snaps in training camp as the<br />
No. 1 back…One month into the regular season, missed<br />
some time with injury and spent the rest of the year improving<br />
in all areas, particularly blocking and blitz pick-up,<br />
to be<strong>com</strong>e Grant’s primary backup…Also began playing<br />
special teams for the first time in his life and adapted<br />
well…In relief of Grant, posted his first 100-yard rushing<br />
performance in ’07 regular-season finale vs. Detroit (Dec.<br />
30), gaining 113 yards on 20 carries…Finished his rookie<br />
season with 11 games played, including three starts, and<br />
rushed 75 times for 267 yards and one touchdown…Also<br />
caught 16 passes for 130 yards…Added a receiving TD in<br />
the postseason, as well as four special teams tackles in<br />
the two playoff games…An early entry in the draft, played<br />
three seasons at Nebraska in a tailback rotation, emerging<br />
as the team’s feature back the final nine games of his<br />
junior season, gaining 835 yards in those nine contests, an<br />
average of 92.8 yards per game as a starter…Overcame<br />
injuries to both shoulders, one that limited him to just 18<br />
carries as a sophomore in 2005…Bounced back from a<br />
second shoulder injury to ultimately earn first-team All-Big<br />
12 Conference honors…Explained his decision to turn pro<br />
early was made in part to help provide financial support<br />
for his mother, who is a diabetic working as a registered<br />
nurse in a nursing home…Also has noted being motivated<br />
by memories of his father, who died when Jackson was<br />
10, the result of a car accident that had paralyzed him four<br />
years earlier…His parents split up when he was young,<br />
and he was living in Chicago with his mother at the time<br />
of his father’s accident, which occurred in Nashville; the<br />
family moved to Mississippi after his father’s death, and<br />
Jackson brings a Polaroid picture of his late father with<br />
him to every game.<br />
2008 season<br />
►►Played in 13 games as the<br />
Packers’ third-down back in<br />
2008, and finished second on<br />
the team with 248 yards on 45<br />
carries (5.5 avg.).<br />
►►Led the running backs and was<br />
fifth on the team with 30 receptions<br />
for 185 yards. at a glance…<br />
►►Became a feature back the final<br />
nine games of 2006 at Nebraska, gaining 835 yards for an<br />
average of 93 yards per game as a starter.<br />
►►Highest running back from Nebraska selected in the <strong>NFL</strong><br />
Draft since Lawrence Phillips was a first-round pick by the<br />
Rams in 1996.<br />
Seattle (Oct. 12): Inactive after falling ill with flu-like<br />
symptoms the night before the game…Vs. Indianapolis<br />
(Oct. 19): Led team with season-high six receptions for<br />
37 yards, three of which went for first downs…Vs. Chicago<br />
(Nov. 16): Posted 50 yards rushing on 10 carries,<br />
including a 19-yard pickup in fourth quarter. Came in game<br />
in the second quarter when Grant left briefly after having<br />
wind knocked out of him, and carried the ball five straight<br />
times for 30 yards…Vs. Carolina (Nov. 30): Took over<br />
as primary back when Grant left the game in the second<br />
quarter with a sprained thumb. Rushed for a season-best<br />
80 yards on a season-high 11 carries. Picked up 24 yards<br />
on his first carry of the afternoon down to the Carolina 4;<br />
Packers scored on a Donald Driver TD catch three plays<br />
later. Also posted season-long 32-yard run on the first<br />
play of the second half…Inactive for final two games, at<br />
Chicago (Dec. 22) and vs. Detroit (Dec. 28), due to wrist<br />
injury sustained at Jacksonville (Dec. 14).<br />
2007<br />
Second-round pick out of Nebraska, played in<br />
11 games and was inactive for five…Played in<br />
both playoff contests…Started the first three games, then<br />
was inactive for the next four (shin); returned to action at<br />
Kansas City (Nov. 4), and had played primarily on special<br />
teams before posting his first <strong>NFL</strong> 100-yard game vs.<br />
Detroit (Dec. 30)…Finished second on the team with 75<br />
rushes for 267 yards and one TD…Had initially received<br />
more time at running back than any other Packers player<br />
after projected starter Vernand Morency missed most of<br />
training camp with a patellar tendon injury…Led the team<br />
in rushing during the preseason, carrying 40 times for 131<br />
yards and two touchdowns…Did not play at Tennessee<br />
(Aug. 30) after suffering a mild concussion in practice on<br />
Aug. 26…Returned to practice Sept. 2…Vs. Philadelphia<br />
(Sept. 9): Started in his first <strong>NFL</strong> game, rushing 15<br />
times for 40 yards and catching four passes for 35 yards.<br />
With under a minute left in the game, made a 7-yard carry<br />
that helped move the team closer to an eventual 42-yard,<br />
game-winning field goal by Mason Crosby…Vs. San Diego<br />
(Sept. 23): Scored his first career touchdown on a<br />
1-yard carry in the fourth quarter, which gave Green Bay a<br />
31-21 lead in the eventual 31-24 win. Also caught a careerlong,<br />
16-yard pass in the first quarter and rushed six times<br />
for 22 yards…At Kansas City (Nov. 4): Returned to<br />
action and rushed five times for 18 yards…At Chicago<br />
(Dec. 23): Rushed three times for 25 yards. In the fourth<br />
Played in 13 games as the No. 2<br />
back and finished second on the<br />
team with 248 yards and a touchdown on 45 carries (5.5<br />
avg.)…Led the running backs and was fifth on the team<br />
with 30 receptions for 185 yards…At Detroit (Sept.<br />
14): Led team with 61 yards rushing on seven carries<br />
(8.7 avg.), including a 19-yard TD run late in the fourth<br />
quarter to put the Packers up 34-25…Vs. Atlanta (Oct.<br />
5): Led the team with five receptions, and added 11 yards<br />
on two carries. Also made a special teams tackle…At quarter, made a 13-yard catch on third-and-11; on the next<br />
155 25<br />
ADMIN. &<br />
DRAFT &<br />
COMMUNITY COACHES JACKSON FREE AGENTS<br />
2008 REVIEW HISTORY<br />
RECORDS &<br />
LAMBEAU<br />
FIELD<br />
MISC.
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