“I could have laid there for three months,” Jackson said.

“Football is what made me feel like who I am,” Jackson says. “People might say that’s too far. No, it’s not. You can’t be good at what you do if you don’t pour all of yourself into it.”

“I failed tremendously,” he says. “Regardless of how you look at it.”

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