Tanard Jackson is the 51st SU player to compete in the Senior Bowl.
Tanard Jackson Gearing Up For 2007 Senior Bowl
1/22/2007 4:04:33 PM | Football
MOBILE, Ala. – Syracuse defensive back Tanard Jackson will participate in the 2007 Under Armour Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama on Saturday. Jackson is one of the 100 top NFL draft prospects participating in the postseason game and will play for the North squad, which is being coached by Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Jon Gruden and his staff.
Jackson posted 57 tackles, including 45 solo stops, six passes defended, 4.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, two interceptions, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery in his final season with Syracuse.
The players will have one practice per day during Senior Bowl Week, January 22-26, capped off by the 58th annual game on Saturday, January 27. Kickoff is set for 3:00 p.m. in Mobile’s Ladd-Peebles Stadium and the contest will be nationally-televised by the NFL Network.
Fans will also be able to follow the players’ progress through the NFL Network’s complete coverage of this year’s Senior Bowl practices, as over 14 hours of Senior Bowl content will air during the week. NFL Network telecasts will air on Monday through Thursday of the week, including nightly recap shows in primetime.
The Senior Bowl is the nation’s most unique football game and football’s premier pre-draft event, annually featuring the country’s best senior NFL draft prospects on teams representing the North and South that are coached by the entire coaching staffs from two National Football League teams. The Senior Bowl is also attended by more than 700 NFL coaches, scouts and other front office personnel each year. In 2006, 15 Senior Bowl players were chosen in the first-round of the NFL Draft, and more than 90 percent of the Senior Bowl players are chosen in the draft each year.
Jackson is the 51st SU player to earn the invitation and play in the game and it marks the 11th-consecutive year that Syracuse will have a player represented in the senior all-star event. In 2006, Anthony Smith recorded two tackles and helped lead the North to a 31-14 victory. Smith was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2006 NFL Draft. He started the final four games of the season, helping Pittsburgh to a 3-1 record in those games, and recorded 13 tackles and two interceptions.
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