When Donte Jackson was in the eighth grade, he remembers having the opportunity to go play at more prominent high schools than the one he was set to attend.
Jackson played at Riverdale Middle School and just behind the middle school on Jefferson Highway sits Riverdale High School where Jackson was going to go.
Historically, Riverdale hadn't been known as a football powerhouse. Jackson remembers feeling a lot of outside pressure to go to places such as John Curtis, St. Augustine or Warren Easton.
Instead, he took the opportunity to play at Riverdale and with his brother Kievon Jackson who Donte Jackson called a "stud" and ultimately played college football at Langston, an NAIA program in Oklahoma.