BOONE, N.C. — App State linebacker
D'Marco Jackson has received an invitation to the 2022 NFL Scouting Combine.
The combine will be held from March 1-7 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and covered by the NFL Network.
Named the Sun Belt's Defensive Player of the Year for 2021, the 6-foot-1, 230-pound Jackson received All-America recognition from Phil Steele, PFN and PFF College. He became the only FBS player in the 2000s with single-season totals including at least 120 tackles, 19 tackles for loss, six sacks and six passes defended. His tackle total ranked No. 4 among FBS players on teams successful enough to post double-digit victories, as the Mountaineers won a Sun Belt East Division title during a 10-2 regular season.
It's the fourth straight year with a scheduled combine and the fifth time in the last six years with a scheduled combine that App State has had at least one player invited, as Jackson joins a list that includes Darrynton Evans (2020), Akeem Davis-Gaither (2020), Jalin Moore (2019), Colby Gossett (2018) and Ronald Blair (2016). The combine was canceled in 2021, when All-American and App State alum Shemar Jean-Charles was drafted by the Green Bay Packers.
In 53 career games with 32 starts, including 29 straight to end his collegiate career, Jackson totaled 296 tackles, 34.0 tackles for loss, 11.5 sacks, three interceptions, 14 PBUs, one fumble recovery, one forced fumble and one touchdown (on the return of a blocked punt in 2019 against Charlotte). In 2020, his first season as a full-time starter, he was the only FBS player with at least 90 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, two interceptions and eight passes defended.
App State went 43-10 with two Sun Belt titles (2018-19) and three bowl wins (2018-20) in the four seasons that followed his redshirt year in 2017.
