Jacksonville bound: Badgers LB Jacobs taken in seventh round of NFL draft

Published Apr. 28, 2018 6:15 p.m. ET

Leon Jacobs moved around more than perhaps any Wisconsin player in history, but now he's moving onto to the NFL.

Jacksonville selected the Badgers outside linebacker in the seventh round (No. 220 overall).

Jacobs came to Wisconsin as a late signee by then-head coach Gary Andersen and played as an 18-year-old freshman at outside linebacker. Jacobs would be moved to inside linebacker the next two years and then fullback and back to outside linebacker in 2016.

Starting in all 14 games at outside linebacker in 2017, Jacobs had 60 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks.

The fifth-year senior played in 59 games, the most in FBS history, finishing with 142 tackles, 15.5 TFL, 6.5 sacks and three interceptions.

Jacobs moved up the draft charts after a good NFL combine in which he ran a 4.48 in the 40-yard dash. Now he joins a Jaguars team which finished one game away from the Super Bowl.