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Lawrence Jackson NFL Draft Bio

Lawrence Christopher Jackson (born August 30, 1985) is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at USC.

Jackson played football and ran track at Inglewood High School in Inglewood, California. In 2002, Jackson was a consensus prep All-America, All-West, All-State, All-City and All-League selection as well as his leagues MVP. He had 142 tackles, with 11 sacks, plus 4 fumble recoveries and 2 interceptions in 2002 while playing defensive line and middle linebacker.

As a junior in 2001, he was All-City and All-League and his league's Defensive Player of the Year. He had 134 tackles, including 22 sacks, plus 2 interceptions (1 returned for a TD), 7 forced fumbles, 3 fumble recoveries and 3 blocked kicks in 2001. Inglewood made it to the 2001 CIF Division X semi-finals. During his 2000 sophomore season, Inglewood advanced to the CIF Division X finals. For his career, he had 57 sacks.

Jackson played college football for the University of Southern California and was a 4-year starter for the Trojans starting 51 of 52 games.Philip Rivers (NC State) is the only other player in NCAA history to start 51 games. In 2007 Jackson was an AP All-American second team selection, Collegefootballnews.com All-American third-team, All-Pac-10 first team (making it for the second time after being so honored in 2005), ESPN.com All-Pac-10 first team, Collegefootballnews.com All-Pac-10 first team, and the Rivals.com All-Pac-10 first team. Jackson was on the 2007 Street and Smiths and Phil Steele's preseason All-American first team and on the Ted Hendricks Award and Bednarik Award watch lists.

He was on the 2006 Lombardi Award, Bednarik Award and Bronko Nagurski Trophy watch lists and 2006 Athlon and Street & Smith's Walter Camp preseason All-American. He fell to Second-team Rivals.com and coaches All-Pac-10 in 2006. He totaled only 4 sacks in 2006, off from his first two years at USC.

He led the team with 10 sacks in 2005. He also had 46 tackles. He was a 2005 Rivals.com Third-team All-American. He was First-team All-Pac-10 and on ESPN's First-team All-Pac-10 team.

Jackson started at defensive end as a redshirt freshman in 2004. He played in 13 games (12 starts). He made the 2004 Collegefootballnews.com Freshman All-American first team, The Sporting News and Rivals.com Freshman All-American second teams. He had 32 tackles (11 for a loss) and 6 sacks.

Jackson redshirted as a true freshman in 2003. He won USC's Service Team Defensive Player of the Year award. After the season, he had arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle to remove debris.

Draft Year: 2008 NFL Football Draft Prospect Stats for Lawrence Jackson

Pre-Rank	Prospect Name	Position Played	Height	Weight
	Lawrence Jackson	Defensive End	6' 4"	271 lbs
Round	Selected	Team	School	Hometown
1	28	Seattle Seahawks	USC	Los Angeles, California

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