![]() ![]() ![]() He spent five seasons with the Denver Broncos, and one with the Cleveland Browns. ![]() He was named first-team All-American during every season he was enrolled, and won the NCAA D-III Offensive Player of the Year after his senior year in 2001. During those seasons he set many records as a wide receiver. Slow Getting Up: A Story of NFL Survival from the Bottom of the Pileįrom scouting combines to training camps, off-season parties to game-day routines, debilitating physical injuries-including degenerative brain conditions-to poor pensions and financial distress, Nate Jackson offers a funny, and shocking look at life in the NFL, and the young men who risk their health and even their lives to play the game.Ī graduate of Pioneer High School in San Jose, California, Jackson played football at Division III school Menlo College from 1999–2001, and was a key factor in helping the school get attention for its athletics programs. ![]()
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