When Alaric Jackson decided to return for his redshirt senior season ahead of 2020, it was regarded as a bit of a surprise. Yet he wanted to show he was better than his injury-riddled 2019 campaign and did so by elevating his third team all-Big Ten performance into a first team slot in 2020.
Jackson entered Iowa as a basketball-first athlete, though he set the world on fire in high school on both sides of the ball as he set the school record for sacks in a season out of Detroit, MI’s Renaissance High. He took 2016 to redshirt and acclimate to the Hawkeye program.