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Jersey Number 8
Jacob Knight
- Year:
- Redshirt Freshman
- Position:
- Quarterback
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-4 / 218
- Hometown:
- Roanoke, Va.
- High School:
- Cave Spring
- Major:
- Management
2020-21 as a Redshirt Freshman: Did not see any action.
2019 as a Freshman: Redshirted to retain a year of eligibility.
High School: Four-year starter at Cave Spring… Set school record with 43 career passing touchdowns, passing for over 4,700 yards… Passed for 1,070 yards and nine touchdowns as a senior… Selected to 2018 VHSCA All-Star Game, scoring a rushing touchdown.
Personal: Full name is Jacob Wilson Knight… Son of Corey and Misty Knight… Has a sister, Allie… His father played at Ferrum… His great uncle, Emmett Hanger, played basketball at JMU in the late 1960’s… Majoring in management.
2019 as a Freshman: Redshirted to retain a year of eligibility.
High School: Four-year starter at Cave Spring… Set school record with 43 career passing touchdowns, passing for over 4,700 yards… Passed for 1,070 yards and nine touchdowns as a senior… Selected to 2018 VHSCA All-Star Game, scoring a rushing touchdown.
Personal: Full name is Jacob Wilson Knight… Son of Corey and Misty Knight… Has a sister, Allie… His father played at Ferrum… His great uncle, Emmett Hanger, played basketball at JMU in the late 1960’s… Majoring in management.
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