In 2021, Jack suffered a series of strokes as a result of high blood pressure and CTE. He’s been working hard since them to regain his mobility and sight back. Only in his early 60s, Jack requires fulltime nursing care as he is unable to conduct normal everyday activities. His family has rallied around him to help raise funds to assist him.
You can visit and give money to his gofundme page at:
The Brahmas for some odd reason didn’t resign Delontae for the 2025 campaign.
He’d sign a game or two into the season with the Birmingham Stallions.
NOTES:
I’ve been deriding the Upper Deck Epack system for sometime, but my largest and almost singular complaint is the cost- especially considering the cost of an Epack is more than a physical card pack and has less or the same amount of cards. Then there’s the added cost of ordering the physical cards… and the wait.
That being said I found something totally fun about it: Trading. I just wish that the community was more active. I’ve been actively after putting together a set to upgrade it to a parallel autograph, slowly whittling it down to the final 10 or so. As I’ve done so, I’ve discovered so many zombie accounts. I’ll put out a fair trade and just sit there and wait… and wait… and wait… and get no response.
I got a few horse trades down with another collector, and so he just threw this one out there for 10 cards. Knowing I am a Brahmas fan and the fact I hadn’t pulled this one yet intrigued me. All of the cards were digital and none really impacted my bottom line, so I went for the deal and scratched Delontae off the list without even going to a game.
Later I figured out I could redeem a set of white cards for an actual printing plate. Silly me, I could’ve done it twice over but I kept ordering the physical cards out. Anyway, lesson learned. With my second redemption pull I was able to get a magenta printer’s plate of Delontae. I was ecstatic.
CARDS: Topps 1990, Pro Set 1990, Game Day 1992 ACQUIRED: TTM 2023, C/o Home SENT: 4/3 RECEIVED: 5/5 (32 days)
CAREER SNAPSHOT:
Izel Jenkins played DB for NC State in 1984, ’86 and ’87.
Primarily a track man, he was an outstanding hurdler in college.
An 11th round draft choice of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1988.
Cracked the starting lineup in 1989, displacing 9 year veteran Roynell Young at LCB.
Unfortunately Izel also had the honor of playing opposite lockdown DB Eric Allen– so he saw a lot of targets his way.
Still he managed 82 tackles, 22 pass breakups, and 4 picks in 1989.
Returned to the bench as a part-time/ platoon starter from there starting no more than 6 contests through the 1992 season.
Finished his final season split between the New York Giants and the Minnesota Vikings before retiring.
NOTES:
Despite his limited resume, starting 28 games over the front end of his career, Izel saw a decent amount of cards produced. He was also given the unfortunate nickname of ‘toast’ and ‘the human crouton’- because fans thought he got burnt one too many times by opposing receivers.
TAC
SAC
FUM
INT
YDS
AVG
TD
LG
N/a
1.0
0
4
58
14.5
0
22
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