Harold Jackson
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Harold Leon Jackson (born January 6, 1946) is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League from 1968 through 1983.
Jackson was drafted in the 12th round (323 overall) of the 1968 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams.
In 2014, Jackson was hired to serve as head coach at his alma mater Jackson State.
He was fired five games into the 2015 season.
Professional career
After playing in just two games during his rookie season, he was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles and quickly established himself as one of the top receivers in the league, with 65 receptions for a league-best 1,116 yards and 9 touchdowns. Jackson dominated the NFL in receptions in 1972 and 1972, as well as receiving yardage in 1969 and 1972.
The Eagles traded quarterback Roman Gabriel back to the Rams for quarterback Mohamed (who was expendable after the Rams acquired John Hadl) prior to the 1973 NFL season. Jackson led the NFL in touchdowns in 1973 with 13 touchdowns and helped the Rams return from a 6–7-1 record to a 12–2 finish that earned them the first of seven straight NFC West Division Championships. His best NFL game came against Dallas on October 14, 1973, when he caught 7 passes for 238 yards and four touchdowns (this was during a string of four games in which he played a total of 13 passes for 422 yards for a 32.5-yard average with 8 touchdowns). Jackson was selected to play in the Pro Bowl five times during his career. By the Associated Press (AP), the Pro Football Writers Association (PFWA), and the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA), he was voted 1st-team All-NFC by the Associated Press (AP), The Sporting News and UPI. In 1973, he was a consensus first-team All-Pro and All-NFC pick. He was voted 2nd team All-NFC by UPI in 1976, 1st team All-NFC by The Sporting News and UPI in 1977, and 2nd team All-Pro by the NEA in 1977.
Jackson was traded to the New England Patriots in 1978. Jackson, alongside Stanley Morgan, helped produce one of the NFL's finest starting wide receiver pairings of the 1970s and 1980s. When Fred Biletnikoff retired in 1978, he was the league leader for the next five seasons. At the time, he was ranked 15th all time, but he would eventually finish second in second place. Jackson finished in 1979 with 1,013 yards receiving and 7 touchdown receptions, ranking second in the NFL in yards-per-catch with an average of 22.5. Morgan, a nine-year-old boy, was the only one to finish with a higher average this season. Jackson played for the Minnesota Vikings (1982) and the Seattle Seahawks (1983).
Jackson played in 29 games over his career and three 1,000-yard seasons. Don Maynard had more receiving yards than Jackson at the time of his retirement. He currently ranks 26th in league history in career receiving yardage. Jackson came in first in receptions (432), yards (7,724) and touchdowns (61) in the 1970s. Despite this, Jackson was not one of the 1970s' All-Decade Team, and he has yet to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Jackson was elected to the Professional Football Researchers Association's Very Good Class of 2011.
Coaching career
With New England (1985–89), Tampa Bay (1992–99), and New Orleans (1997–99), Jackson coached receivers for ten years in the NFL (1985–89). The Patriots won the AFC Championship and appeared in Super Bowl XX during Greg Belich's first NFL season as a coach. In 1987, he trained for two of the Patriots' replacement games but didn't participate. Jackson spent time as the receivers coach at Baylor University. Jackson was named head coach at Jackson State University on January 13, 2014. After the Tigers got off to a 1–4 start, Coach Jackson was fired on October 6, 2015.