2024 Football Signing Class

Jaylen Pettus

  • Position Defensive End
  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 235
  • Class Freshman
  • Hometown Des Moines, Iowa
  • Prev School Iowa Western CC
  • High School Dowling Catholic HS
  • Twitter jaylen_pettus
  • Instagram jaylen_pettus

Biography

IOWA WESTERN: A 2023 First-Team NCJCAA All-American…played in 23 games for the Reivers, who won back-to-back NJCAA D1 Football National Championships…he totaled 69 tackles, 27.0 tackles for loss, 13.5 sacks, three fumble recoveries and two forced fumbles in two seasons…played in 12 games in 2023 and logged 40 tackles, 17.5 TFL, 9.0 sacks, a forced fumble, fumble recovery and two blocked kicks in 2023 as No. 2 Iowa Western went 12-1 and rolled to the 2023 NJCAA D1 Football National Championship, topping No. 4 East Mississippi, 61-14, in the championship game…he blocked and recovered a punt in the championship game…In 2022, he posted 29 tackles, 4.5 sacks, two fumble recoveries and a forced fumble.

Quoting Coach Golesh
“Jaylen is a junior college product hailing from the back-to-back national champion Iowa Western program. He will have an instant impact on our defense, and we are fired up to have him in our program!”

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