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21 Jacob De Jesus

  • Position Wide Receiver
  • Height 5-7
  • Weight 170
  • Class Senior
  • Experience 4th#
  • Hometown Manteca, CA
  • Prev School UNLV
  • High School Manteca HS

Biography

Accolades

  • First-team All-ACC all-purpose and specialist selection, while he was a second-team pick as a wide receiver as a 2025 senior at Cal.
  • Named First Team All-Mountain West as a punt returner as a 2024 junior.
  • The first Rebel return man to earn First Team all-league more than once, taking it this time as a punt returner.
  • Named Second Team All-Mountain West as a kickoff returner as a 2024 junior.
  • Preseason Second Team All-America (kick returner) - ESPN.
  • Preseason Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Year (first from UNLV since 2006).
  • Paul Hornung Award Watch List (second ever from UNLV).
  • Jet Award Preseason Watch List.
  • Polynesian College Football Player of the Year Award.
  • Named to East West Shrine Game Preseason Watch List.

Senior (2025) - Cal

  • First-team All-ACC all-purpose and specialist selection, while he was a second-team pick as a wide receiver
  • posted career highs in nearly every category, including receptions, receptions per game, yards receiving, yards receiving per game, touchdown receptions, combined kickoff yards, punt returns and kickoff returns
  • Led the ACC and ranked second nationally with 108 receptions and 8.31 receptions per game, breaking a school record for receptions previously held by Dameane Douglas (100, 1998)
  • Had 51 receptions over his final four games, including three in double digits with a school-record-tying and career-high 16 receptions for a career-high 158 yards receiving and the game-winning touchdown on the final play to earn ACC Receiver of the Week honors on Nov. 8 in a 29-26 overtime win at No. 15 Louisville, 14 receptions for 96 yards on Nov. 22 at Stanford, and 12 receptions for 97 yards and one touchdown Nov. 29 vs. SMU
  • Fourth in the ACC and 18th nationally with 1,030 yards receiving, while his receiving yards per game (79.2) were 24th in the country
  • Led the ACC and was eighth in the nation with 1,645 all-purpose yards and 126.54 all-purpose yards per game
  • Paced Cal with six touchdown receptions
  • Had 622 combined kick return yards (363 kickoff, 259 punt) to rank second in the ACC and tied for seventh nationally
  • Led the ACC in kickoff return average (20.2 ypr), while he ranked third in the ACC and 16th nationally in punt return average (11.8 ypr)
  • Played in all 13 games with 10 starts

Senior (2024) - UNLV

  • Appeared in 13 games.
  • Caught 43 passes for 512 yards and three touchdowns.
  • Had nine kick returns for a total of 190 yards.
  • Tallied 25 punt returns for 252 yards.

Junior (2023) - UNLV 

  • Named Second Team by both USA TODAY and Action Network and Third Team by Phil Steele.
  • The first Rebel since QB/P Randall Cunningham in 1984 to earn all-conference at two positions (PR & KOR) in the same season.
  • Also Honorable Mention All-MW at receiver by College Football Network.
  • One of three finalists for the Jet Award, which is given to the nation’s top return specialist.
  • The only FBS player to rank in the top 15 in both punt (3rd at 16.0) and kickoff return (13th at 25.7) average.
  • His 96-yard kickoff return in the season opener vs. Bryant was the fourth-longest in UNLV history while his 59-yard punt return at New Mexico was the longest by a Rebel since 2003.
  • Ranked 20th in the country with 123.6 all-purpose yards per game.
  • Logged 208 all-purpose yards in Rebel debut vs. Bryant highlighted by 158 kickoff return yards on three attempts.
  • Had a season-high 263 all-purpose yards in a win over CSU.
  • Remarkably, his 112 yards on just two punt returns at New Mexico were the most an entire UNLV team had in one game since 2014 ...  Also finished second on the team with 606 yards on 60 receptions.
  • Caught at least two passes in all but one game.
  • Best outing came in a win over CSU when he grabbed nine passes for 120 yards en route to making the Paul Hornung Award Honor Roll.
  • Caught a 48-yard touchdown in a win over Vanderbilt and a seven-yard score in a victory over Hawai’i.
  • Had five catches for 46 yards and two punt returns for 24 yards at eventual national champion Michigan on September 9.
  • Also rushed 11 times for 46 net yards on the season, including filling in for a depleted RB corps in the Guaranteed Rate bowl vs. Kansas with six attempts for  40 yards, including a touchdown run to go with his eight catches for 95 vs. the Jayhawks.

Sophomore (2022) - Modesto Junior College

  • A First Team JC Athletic Bureau CCCFCA All-American, First Team All-Region honoree and the Valley Conference Most Valuable Offensive Player as a sophomore.
  • Played a key role in MJC winning a share of the league championship and a berth to the Northern California Football Conference playoffs.
  • Grabbed 64 passes for 914 yards and five touchdowns while rushing 26 times for 117 yards and another score. 
Freshman (2021) - Modesto Junior College
  • Named all-conference and All-Purpose Player of the Year as a freshman after posting 1,243 all-purpose yards.

Prep

  • A 2021 graduate of Manteca HS.
  • Lettered three times and led the Buffaloes to two Sac-Joaquin Section Championships during his sophomore and senior years.
  • The 2020 Valley Oak League MVP was named First Team Sac-Joaquin Section and First Team All-State as a WR.
  • Named 2019 Conference Offensive Player of the Year and a First Team Sac-Joaquin Section honoree.
  • Also named first team all-league in 2018.
  • Finished his high school career with 5,095 all-purpose yards and scored 53 touchdowns.
  • Set single-season and career receiving records in his three years at Manteca.
  • As a senior, he finished with 1,139 yards and 16 touchdowns on 64 receptions to go with 631 rushing yards and seven scores.

Statistics

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