Football

Former NFL running back Brandon Jackson is entering his first season on the Tusculum coaching staff and will mentoring the Pioneer receiving corps.

Prior to his arrival to the Greeneville campus, Jackson served as the wide receivers coach at Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa where he also worked with special teams, recruiting and academic advising in the spring of 2017.

Prior to Briar Cliff, he coached four years at the middle and high school levels.

Jackson played six seasons in the NFL with four of those coming with the Green Bay Packers and two years with the Cleveland Browns after being drafted in the second round of the 2007 NFL draft by Green Bay and started at running back as a rookie.

His NFL career was highlighted with a world championship in Super Bowl XLV with the Packers in his fourth season. Jackson rushed for 1,383 yards and seven touchdowns on 355 carries in 54 games in his pro career.  During his four years in Green Bay, he was a member of two NFC North Division championship teams in 2007 and 2010 and claimed a NFC title in 2010.

Jackson played collegiately at the University of Nebraska where he racked up 1,431 rushing yards with the Cornhuskers.  He earned a spot on the Big 12 Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll and was a tabbed to the 2006 Brooke Beringer Citizenship Team.

Jackson, a native of Detroit, Michigan, completed his bachelor’s degree in 2016 at the University of Ashford’s Forbes School of Business where he graduated with Summa Cum Laude honors.

Jackson has also been very active in the community where he was active with the Big Brothers program in Green Bay and founded the Brandon Jackson Foundation for underprivileged children.

Coach Jackson and his wife Brandy have one son, Brandon, Jr. and two daughters, Braylyn and Brayelle.