Fred Jackson (American football)

Fred Jackson

Jackson with the Buffalo Bills in 2014
No. -- Free agent
Position:	Running back
Personal information
Date of birth:	(1981-02-20) February 20, 1981 (age 36)
Place of birth:	Fort Worth, Texas
Height:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:	216 lb (98 kg)
Career information
High school:	Arlington (TX) Lamar
College:	Coe
Undrafted:	2003
Career history
Sioux City Bandits (2004–2005) Rhein Fire (2006) Buffalo Bills (2006–2014) Seattle Seahawks (2015)
Career highlights and awards
Consensus All-American (2002) United Indoor Football co-MVP (2005) NFL All-purpose yards leader (2009) First player in NFL history to compile 1,000 rushing and 1,000 kickoff return yards in a season (2009) Oldest RB in the Super Bowl era to make his playoff debut (2016, 34) 2010 Bills Walter Payton "Man of the Year" award
Career NFL statistics as of 2015
Rushing attempts: 1,305 Rushing yards: 5,746 Rushing average: 4.4 Rushing TDs: 30 Receiving yards: 2,897 Receiving TDs: 9 Player stats at NFL.com

Frederick George "Fred" Jackson (born February 20, 1981) is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He played college football at Coe College. After going undrafted in 2003 and playing in NFL Europe, Jackson spent nine seasons with the Buffalo Bills, becoming their third all-time leading rusher. As of the 2015 season, he is the oldest running back in the NFL.

Jackson attended Lamar High School in Arlington, Texas, where he played football and ran track. Although he was a member of the powerful Lamar Vikings teams of the late 1990s, he never started a game in his two years on the varsity team because he was considered too small (5 ft 8 in, 160 pounds) and too slow. He began his senior year as a third-string running back, and only after a knee injury to starter Justin Faust (headed to Stanford), was he elevated to second-string behind Tommicus Walker (headed to TCU).

Also a standout sprinter, Jackson was a state-qualifier in the 100 meters and recorded a time of 21.78 seconds as a member of the Lamar 4 × 100 m relay squad, breaking the previous record.

During his senior year, 14 of his teammates signed letters of intent to play college football, but he did not receive any offers. Instead, Wayne Phillips, his Nichols Junior High School football coach, arranged for him and his brother to enroll into Coe College, a Division III school that does not offer athletic scholarships.

At Coe College, Jackson was named to four All-American teams in 2002, rushing for 2,702 yards and 29 touchdowns. He was a two-time Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference MVP for the Kohawks. He graduated in 2003 with a degree in sociology.