Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Jeremy Jackson — Wide Receiver — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
Posted at 6:00am — 5/17/2012
Michigan Football: Coach’s Corner — Jeremy Jackson — Wide Receiver — Wolverine’s Spring Football — GBMWolverine Evaluations
GBMWolverine Football Spring Evaluations: Position-by-Position — Player Profile.
GBMWolverine readers: Here is a brief overview of Jeremy Jackson and GBMWolverine’s analysis concerning his progress this spring in our opinion.
Note: We will not evaluate every player on the team and with this position group (Receivers) we will not evaluate #27 Jonathan Keizer, #85 Joe Reynolds, and #96 Baquer Sayed. If you would like to chat about this player bring them up on the message board or send us an e-mail request.
Reminder: Also noted that we didn’t attend every practice and realize things happen during those fifteen practices, but our evaluations are based on what we seen first hand and in our opinion and not what we hear like just about every other site out there that relies on second, third hand information to make their evaluations of the players during the spring.
Losing from 2011 (Team #132) on scholarship: Junior Hemingway (NFL – Chiefs), Martavious Odoms, Kelvin Grady, and Darryl Stonum (Discipline Reasons).
Coming in for 2012 (Team #133) on scholarship: Jehu Chesson, Amara Darboh, and Devin Funchess (TE/Slot).
Commit for 2013 (Team #134) on scholarship: Jaron Dukes and Csont’e York.
Jeremy Jackson
Height: 6’3
Weight: 198
Number: 17
Position: Wide Receiver
Year: Junior
City/State: Ann Arbor, Michigan
High School: Huron
High School Coach: Cory Gildersleeve
Jeremy Jackson, son of long time Michigan running backs coach, Fred Jackson, and a local product from Huron High School, may be the most improved wide receiver on the team from last season to this spring. He clearly has improved his overall skills within the timeframe of one year.
Jeremy’s hands are outstanding, probably the best on the current team in our opinion. He seems to be able to hang on to the ball when given the opportunity as demonstrated by a couple of very tough catches he made this spring.
Building on the above strength, Jeremy also really improved his route running this spring. He runs very good routes and uses his length and long arms to his advantage. He could be a valuable option in the red zone.
As is common knowledge, Jeremy will never be a burner, and will need to continue to add weight and strength. His route running has been somewhat limited to outs and hooks.
Much of Jeremy’s participation this spring was with the second group, but he frequently seemed to be open enabling the quarterbacks to throw his way. He made some big plays this spring and seems to have taken the next step. Jeremy, being the son of a coach, knows the formula to get on the field of play.
He has put in the time and has become a player that will likely see opportunity arise this upcoming season. Yes indeed, one may say that such advances may be linked to depth issues, but Jeremy’s advances and hard work should not be discounted.
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Written by GBMWolverine Staff
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