{"id":1758,"date":"2014-05-27T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2014-05-27T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T13:28:19","slug":"10-things-you-should-know-fred-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You Should Know &#8211; Fred Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10T3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1759\" alt=\"10T3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/10T3.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. During his senior year, 13 of his teammates signed letters of intent to play college football, but he didn&#8217;t receive any offers. Fred received zero.<\/p>\n<p>2. Jackson tried out for the Packers, Bears and Broncos before playing indoor football in 2004-2005 (he was paid $200 per week). All AFL teams passed on Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>3. His number was retired by the Sioux City Bandits<\/p>\n<p>4. Jacksons childhood home was torn down to make way for the Jerry World (Cowboys Stadium).<\/p>\n<p>5. In 2009 Jackson became the first player in NFL history with 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 kickoff return yards.<\/p>\n<p>6. Since Marshawn Lynch was traded in favor of Jackson, Jackson has averaged slightly more YPC. 4.45 &gt; 4.22<\/p>\n<p>7. Fred Jackson wears #22 as a tribute to Emmitt Smith.<\/p>\n<p>8. Fred\u2019s mom was an assistant coach on his first football team.<\/p>\n<p>9. Jackson and Kyle Williams are the only two Bills acquired during Marv Levy\u2019s time as GM.<\/p>\n<p>10. Jackson is the oldest RB in the NFL. And he is 1 of 5 over 30 that is an active contributor to the offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; 1. During his senior year, 13 of his teammates signed letters of intent to play college football, but he didn&#8217;t receive any offers. Fred received zero. 2. Jackson tried out for the Packers, Bears and Broncos before playing indoor football in 2004-2005 (he was paid $200 per week). All AFL teams passed on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/?p=1758\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167,22,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billszone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}