James Jackson, now there’s a name that doesn’t get brought up very often. Jackson was a Georgia football quarterback from 1984-to-1987 and was the starter for the last three years.
Now Jackson was nothing special during his time in Athens. While the mid-1980’s saw the beginning of the passing games rise in college football, Georgia was still a run first, run second and maybe pass third team.
Jackson only passed 1,000 yards passing twice in his time at Georgia. He had 1,475 yards as a junior in 1986 and 1,026 yards as a senior.