DeSean William Jackson will be playing in his age-33 season in 2020. Born in Los Angeles, California, and growing up in the Crenshaw neighborhood, he attended Long Beach Polytechnic high school. He had become one of the top wide receiver recruits in the nation while in high school, and also played baseball and ran track. In his senior year he caught 60 passes for 1,075 yards and 15 TDs.

Jackson went to the University of California to play his college football. He had three successful seasons, and was a Heisman Trophy candidate entering his junior season. He finished this season with 65 catches for 762 yards and 6 touchdowns, but had limited playing time secondary to several minor injuries. He measured 5’9 ¾” and 169 pounds, and ran a 4.35 second 40-yard dash at the NFL Combine. Jackson was selected in the second round of the 2008 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles.

Jackson has been in the NFL for 12 seasons now; his first six seasons were with the Philadelphia Eagles, then he went to the Washington Redskins for three years, was in Tampa Bay for two years and finally returned to Philadelphia in 2019. Jackson has only had two seasons where he actually played all 16 games. He has four additional seasons of playing 15 games and two more playing in 14 games.

Jackson has been able to stay relatively healthy throughout his long NFL career. Heading into the 2019 season he had played in at least 11 games in all but one season. Playing in 153 of a possible 176 games, 87%. So he’s missed 1-2 games per season but doesn’t usually miss a bunch. Well, until 2019 that is, when things did not go according to plan as he only managed to play in three games.

Let’s review some of Jackson’s injuries as he’s had many over the past 15 years. Besides several concussions, Jackson has pretty much injured every body part possible. He suffered a shoulder injury in his freshman year of college, a gr…