Jan Jorgensen

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Jan Jorgensen

Profile
College	Brigham Young University
Position	DL
Jersey No.	84
Class	Junior
Career	2006 – present
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.90 m)
Weight	256 lbs (116.1 kg)
Nationality	American
B-date
B-place	Price, Utah
High School	Carbon High School
Career Highlights
Awards
2007 Academic All-Mountain West Conference 2007 All-Mountain West Conference 1st Team 2007 Bart Oates Big Brother Award 2007 Phil Steele All-Mountain West 1st Team 2007 Rivals.com All-Mountain West Conference
Championships
2007 Mountain West Conference Champion 2006 Mountain West Conference Champion
Bowl Games
2007 Las Vegas Bowl 2006 Las Vegas Bowl

Jan Jorgensen (born in Price, Utah) is a defensive lineman for the Brigham Young University Cougars in the NCAA college football tournament. Jorgensen is one of Mountain West's most relentless pass rusher as proven by his 14 quarterback sacks in 2007 which ranked 5th in the nation and was best in the league. The second generation football star is a prototypical defensive end who is lauded for his speed, tenacity and motor off the line. Despite coming from a long lay-off due to his church mission, Jorgensen proved that there is not a thing that can't be done with hard work as he showed no rust in earning one of the Cougars' starting spots in his redshirt freshman year.

1 Personal Life
2 High School
3 College
- 3.1 2005
- 3.2 2006
- 3.3 2007
- 3.4 2008
4 Career Stats
5 Highlights
6 Achievements
7 References

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Personal Life

Jan is the son of Jeff and Julie Jorgensen. Jan is not the first in the family to play football, as his father was a former Utah State standout while his older brother J.D. played as a tight end for Utah. As it is, Jan grew up not only disliking BYU but was also slated to follow the footsteps of his elders and be an Aggie or a Ute. He also attended some of Utah's two-a-day Camp Carbon handled by former Utah coach Ron McBride. After his two year (2003-2005) Church mission in Boise, Idaho, Jan's "hate" for Brigham Young seemed to cool off as he even had the rival school up on his list of schools of interest. He said that when he told his father about it, the senior Jorgensen received the news with disbelief but eventually accepted his son's decision and is now one of the biggest BYU supporters.

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High School

Jorgensen spent his high school days at Carbon High School in Price, Utah where he lettered in football, basketball, baseball, and wrestling. Among his athletic accomplishments include a 3-A state wrestling championship in only his first season of competitive wrestling during his senior year as well as being part of the Dinos' 2001 state basketball championship team. In terms of football, Jorgensen played under the tutelage of his father and Carbon's football coach Jeff Jorgensen. He was a four-year starter on Carbon High's defensive line but impressed many with his versatility after moonlighting as a quarterback for three years. Jorgensen went on to become a four-year letterwinner and a two-time Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune All-State selection, concluding his final year with stats of 93 tackles and 16 sacks. Academically, he was an honor roll student at Carbon High.

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College

Early in high school, Jorgensen already gave his verbal commitment to Utah during those times that he attended coach McBride's camp. When the Utes fired McBride, Jorgensen waivered on his commitment and eventually signed with Kentucky out of high school in February 2003 because he believed the Wildcats were an up-and-coming team. His collegiate football career however was slightly postponed when he went on a two-year mission to Idaho that year. During his Church mission, he had time to think about his plan and it was during that "hiatus" that Jorgensen considering other schools, including his first option Utah, Boise State, and surprisingly, BYU. Less than a year before heading home, he already got in contact with the coaches of those ball clubs and basically made his decision by listing what the positives and negatives of his three options were. BYU impressed him the most in terms of the academic, football, and the "personal spiritual development" category but was held back by the family's "dislike" of the school. Nonetheless, he made a stand and decided to go to BYU against his father's wishes although the elder Jorgensen later on accepted his son's decision. He signed with BYU in February 2005 and headed back home from his missionary service about five months later to enroll and make his two-a-days.

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2005

Jorgensen was redshirted as a true freshman.

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2006

During his redshirt freshman year, Jorgensen had the opportunity to claim the Cougars' starting defensive end spot with the departure of starters Manaia Brown, Daniel Marquardt and Vince Feula. He showcased some flashes of brilliance during the spring game when he tallied an 8-yard sack. In his collegiate debut and first career start, Jorgensen recorded his first career sack with 13:20 left in the third quarter and had a season high four solo tackles in the 13-16 loss at Arizona. He experienced his first collegiate win against Tulsa, contributing a pair of assisted tackles in the 49-24 victory. He was limited to a solitary stop in the loss at Boston College and in the win over Utah State, but had three and four tackles in the wins over TCU and San Diego State, respectively. In the win over UNLV, Jorgensen only had an assist but had a career-long 48-yard return after recovering a third-quarter fumble. In the wins at Air Force and at Colorado State, Jorgensen made significant contributions with three tackles and an 8-yard sack against the Falcons, and a solo tackle and a quarterback hurry against the Rams. Although he did not tally a stat against Wyoming, his presence was enough to help the Cougars claim a win and a share of the Mountain West Conference Championship. The team went on to win its first outright MWC championship since the 2001 season after defeating New Mexico, with Jorgensen contributing four tackles, a four-yard sack, and a quarterback hurry in the 42-17 victory.

In the regular season finale at Utah, Jorgensen had a season-high six tackles with half-a-sack in the Cougars's 33-31 win. He ended the season with his bowl game debut at the Las Vegas Bowl, chipping in four tackles and half-a-sack in the 30-point blow-out over Oregon. By year's end, Jorgensen was credited with 34 tackles, including 14 solo tackles and four sacks, with two fumble recoveries in 13 starts while helping the Cougar defense limit opponents to an average of 14.7 points per game (10th in the nation) and rank fourth in the nation in turnover margin (+14 turnover margin, +1.08 pg). Jorgensen also earned Academic All-Mountain West Conference honors as a freshman.

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2007

Jorgensen had a solo and an assist during the Blue-White Spring Scrimmage. In his season debut, he produced five tackles, including an 11-yard sack, as the Cougars defeated Arizona by thirteen. BYU however got defeated two in a row at UCLA and at Tulsa, with Jorgensen contributing four stops and a TFL against the Bruins, and five stops, a three-yard sack, a pass break-up, and a pair of quarterback hurries against the Golden Hurricane. Those defeats turned out to be the last for the Cougs that season as the team swept the rest of its assignments starting with the 31-6 dismantling of Air Force where Jorgensen posted nine stops with a 7-yard sack and a couple of quarterback pressures. He also added four and six stops in road wins at New Mexico and UNLV, respectively, in addition to four more in the lopsided victory over Eastern Washington. Against Colorado State, Jorgensen tallied season-highs of 13 tackles and two-and-a-half sacks to help the Cougars defeat the Rams, 35-16. In the five-point win over TCU, he had seven stops with a season high 3 TFLs for the second straight game, an 11-yard sack, and a QB hurry. The following week at Wyoming, he was down to a season low four stops with a 9-yard sack in the 35-10 win. In the single-touchdown victory over Utah, he had five stops and a pair of sacks for a 15-yard loss before finishing the regular season with seven tackles, a 9-yard sack, and a pass break up to earn the Mountain West Conference Defensive player of the week honors.

In his second consecutive bowl game appearance, Jorgensen had four unassisted tackles, with a pair of sacks for an 11-yard loss as BYU defeated the Bruins 17-16 in the Las Vegas Bowl. He ended the season with 77 stops (40 solos), 20 tackles for 115 yards loss (tops in the MWC, 12th in the nation), and 13.5 sacks for 91 yards loss (tops in the MWC, top 10 in the nation). He also earned All-Mountain West Conference First Team honors, an Academic All-Mountain West Conference honors for the second straight year, and was also the recipient of the Bart Oates Big Brother Award. He also averaged 5.9 tackles and 1.1 sacks per game and was part of the defense that allowed only 307.8 yards per game (ranked 10th in the nation in total defense), and 97.5 rushing yards per game (9th in rushing defense).

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2008

Returning for his junior year, Jorgensen reaped several preseason accolades including an appearance in the Rotary Lombardi Award and Lott Trophy watch lists as well as an All-America second team citation from NationalChamps.net.

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Career Stats

	Tackles				Tackles for Loss			Sacks			Misc
Year	Solo	Asst	Total	Ttl/G	TFL	TFLYds	TFL/G	Sacks	SckYds	Sck/G	PBU	QBH	FF	Blk
2006	14	20	34	2.62	5.0	30	0.39	4.0	29	0.31	0	2	0	0
2007	40	37	77	5.92	20.0	115	1.54	13.5	91	1.04	2	5	0	0