Kevin Jackson wasn't under the football recruiting radar last year. He wasn't even on it.
But North Dakota State saw enough of the 6-foot-1, 181-pound safety this year to offer him a scholarship. Jackson, from Kentwood, Mich., accepted on Tuesday and verbally committed to the Bison.
Jackson is more known in Michigan as one of the state's top sprinters. That was why he didn't play football as a junior.
For more on this story, see tomorrow's Forum.
NDSU gets verbal commitment from Michigan prep Jeff Kolpack 20080115
Jeff would like to dispel the notion he was around when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, but he is on his third decade of reporting with Forum Communications. The son of a reporter and an English teacher, and the brother of a reporter, Jeff has worked at the Jamestown Sun, Bismarck Tribune and since 1990 The Forum, where he's covered North Dakota State athletics since 1995.
Jeff has covered all nine of NDSU's Division I FCS national football titles and has written three books: "Horns Up," "North Dakota Tough" and "Covid Kids." He is the radio host of "The Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack" April through August.
