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Jersey Number 27
Jacob Dobbs
- Year:
- Redshirt Senior
- Position:
- Linebacker
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-0 / 233
- Hometown:
- Macomb, Mich.
- High School:
- De La Salle Collegiate
- Previous:
- Holy Cross
- Major:
- Cyber Intelligence
2024:
Prior to JMU:
High School:
Personal:
- College Sports Communicators Second Team Academic All-American
- Second Team All-Sun Belt linebacker
- VaSID First Team All-State
- JMU's Bob Yetzer Leadership Award
- Sun Belt Defensive Player of the Week (Oct. 28)
- Started nine games at linebacker
- JMU leader in tackles (74)
- Had 74 tackles (31 solo) to go with 3.5 tackles for loss, 3.0 sacks and three fumble recoveries
- Ranked fifth in the FBS and led the Sun Belt in fumble recoveries
- Also ranked tied for third in the Sun Belt in tackles per game (8.2)
- Season-high 17 tackles with a fumble recovery at Georgia Southern (Oct. 19)
- Made 13 total tackles vs. Gardner-Webb (Sept. 7)
- Tallied 10 tackles with 2.0 sacks vs. Southern Miss (Oct. 26)
- Also recovered fumbles at North Carolina (Sept. 21) and vs. Western Kentucky in Boca Raton Bowl (Dec. 18)
- Had 1.5 TFL and a sack in opener at Charlotte (Aug. 31)
- Recorded five or more tackles in eight of nine appearances
- Butkus Award Watch List
- Wuerffel Trophy Watch List
- Allstate AFCA Good Works Team Nominee
- NFF Hampshire Honor Society Member
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2024)
- Virginia Sports Information Directors Academic All-State
- #34 on Bruce Feldman's Freaks List
Prior to JMU:
- Transferred to JMU after five seasons at Holy Cross (2019-23)
- Started in all 43 games for the Crusaders
- 2023 winner of the Comeback Player of the Year
- 2023 William V. Campbell Trophy finalist
- 2023 College Sports Communicators First Team Academic All-American and All-District in both 2021 and 2023
- 2021 and 2023 Stats Perform Buck Buchanan Award finalist
- 2019 Stats Perform Jerry Rice Award finalist
- 2023 First Team FCS All-American by Stats Perform, Walter Camp and the Associated Press
- 2021 First Team FCS All-American by Stats Perform
- 2023 Second Team FCS All-American by AFCA
- 2021 Second Team FCS All-American by AFCA, the Associated Press, HERO Sports and Phil Steele
- 2020 HERO Sports Sophomore All-American and 2019 Freshman All-American
- 2021 and 2023 Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year
- 2021 ECAC Defensive Player of the Year
- 2020, 2021 and 2023 First Team All-Patriot League linebacker and Second Team in 2019
- 2021 and 2023 All-ECAC and All-New England
- 2021 and 2023 FCS ADA Academic All-Star
- 2024 Patriot League Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year
- 2024 NFF Hampshire Honor Society Member
- 2023 Patriot League Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year
- 2021 and 2023 Academic All-Patriot League
- Four-time Patriot League Academic Honor Roll (2019-2022)
- Received 2021 Crusader Most Valuable Player Award and 2023 Coaches Award
- Also 2019 recipient of WEEI Defensive Player of the Year
- One-time Stats Perform National Defensive Player of the Week and six-time Patriot League Defensive Player of the Week
- Had 432 career tackles to go with 46.5 tackles for loss, 22.5 sacks, four interceptions, four pass breakups, four forced fumbles, four fumble recoveries and one defensive touchdown
- Holy Cross all-time leader in tackles (432) and tackles for loss (46.5)
- In 2023, had 123 tackles with 12.0 TFL, 6.0 sacks and three forced fumbles
- In 2022, tallied 38 tackles with 1.5 in injury-shortened season
- In 2021, accrued 137 tackles with 17.5 TFL, 9.5 sacks and three pass breakups while adding his only career catch on a 41-yard pass
- In 2020, totaled 41 tackles with 3.5 TFL, 1.0 sack, one interception, one breakup and a forced fumble
- In 2019, had 93 tackles with 12.0 TFL, 6.0 sacks, three interceptions (one pick-six), one breakup, one forced fumble and three recoveries
- Career-high 21 tackles vs Merrimack (2023)
- Career-high 12 solo tackles at Yale (2023)
- Career-high 4.0 tackles for loss at Yale (2021)
- Career-high 3.0 sacks at Monmouth (2021)
- Career-high two forced fumbles at Yale (2023)
- Career-high two interceptions vs. Georgetown (2019)
- First career touchdown on 56-yard pick-six vs. Georgetown (2019)
- 21 games with double-digit tackles
- Five games with double-digit solo stops
High School:
- 2024 Inductee to the Catholic High School League Hall of Fame
- Associated Press First Team All-State as a senior
- Detroit News and Detroit Free Press Dream Teams as a senior
- Totaled 261 tackles, 14 sacks, 24 tackles for loss, three interceptions and five forced fumbles in high school career
- Led De La Salle Collegiate to Division II state championships in 2017 and 2018
- Team captain as a senior
Personal:
- Son of Lou and Michelle Dobbs
- Has one brother, Noah
- Has one sister, Olivia
- His father played football at Wayne State University
- Graduated from Holy Cross in December 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and religious studies
- Pursing post-graduate certificate in cyber intelligence at JMU
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