2023: Saw action in all 10 games, making nine starts … Led team with 36 receptions and 535 yards with four touchdowns … Hauled in two touchdowns and 70 receiving yards against Brown … Posted five catches for 94 yards at Dartmouth … Registered season-high 119 receiving yards and a touchdown in win over Georgetown.
2022: Honorable Mention All-Ivy League … Played in 10 games, making six starts … Registered 440 yards and three touchdowns …. Caught a touchdown pass in season-finale against Cornell … Made five grabs for 85 yards, including a 64-yard TD against Yale … Set career-high with 162 receiving yards at Penn … Made nine catches for 64 yards against Princeton.
2021: Saw action in two games as a junior wide receiver … Listed on the depth chart as a backup wide receiver … Played in the Marist and Georgetown games … Made career debut in season opener vs. Marist (Sept. 18).
2020: Season canceled due to COVID pandemic.
2019: Did not see any game action as a first-year wide receiver … Contributed primarily on the scout team.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2019 graduate of San Clemente High School in San Clemente, Calif., where he played three years of varsity football for Head Coach Jamie Ortiz … Named to the All-Orange County Second Team as a wide receiver … Earned First Team All-League honors on offense … Selected to participate in the Orange County All-Star Football Game at Orange Coast College in January 2019 … Played wide receiver for the Tritons … Caught 51 passes for 1,003 yards (19.7 yards per catch average), averaged 83.6 receiving yards per game and 12 touchdowns as a senior … Long reception was a 69-yard touchdown … Ranked No. 11 in Orange County in receiving yards during the regular season … Led the Tritons to a 7-5 record and South Coast League title with 4-0 record as a senior … Gained national attention for his one-handed catch of a pass in a state playoff game against Murrieta Valley … In that game vs. Murrieta Valley, caught 10 passes for 166 yards and three touchdowns … Made three receptions for 123 yards vs. Torrey Pines … Caught eight passes for 134 yards and a touchdown in the season opener vs. Oceanside … Ran a 4.45 40-yard dash as a senior … Caught eight passes for 136 yards and two touchdowns as a junior … Long reception was a 47-yarder.
PERSONAL: Born Jaydel William Jenkins on May 9, 2001 in San Diego, Calif. … Son of William Jenkins and Amber Stanco … Has two siblings: Brielle and Avery … Mother serves as the cheerleading coach at his high school … Mother is his role model because she has shown him the definition of strength, willpower and perseverance by raising three children … First generation college student who says it is very important for him to become the first in his family to finish college … Nickname is JJ … Favorite actor is Morgan Freeman … Favorite home-cooked meal: mother’s enchiladas … Hobbies and interests include watching movies, playing video games, travel, hanging out with friends … Favorite sports memory was defeating Mission Viejo for the league title … Current New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold attended his high school … Chose Columbia to experience a whole different side of life and further pursue his education while extending his football career … Also chose Columbia to better himself and that the school and New York City can help him accomplish that … Committed to Columbia on January 21, 2019 … Selected Columbia over offers from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Diego and Azusa Pacific … Enrolled at Columbia College … Majors in Psychology.
