Jordan Hancock (born August 12, 2003) is an

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wi ...

cornerback A cornerback (CB) is a member of the defensive backfield or secondary in gridiron football. Cornerbacks cover Wide receiver, receivers most of the time, but also blitz and defend against such Play from scrimmage, offensive running plays as sweep ...

for the

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Early life and high school

Hancock was born in

Suwanee, Georgia Suwanee is a city in Gwinnett County and a northeastern suburb of Atlanta in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,355; this had grown to an estimated 20,907 as of 2019. Portions of Forsyth and Fulton counties ...

where he attended high school North Gwinnett. In Hancock's junior season he totaled 15 tackles and two interceptions. Hancock originally decided to commit to play college football for the

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. However, Hancock flipped his commitment to play for the

College career

In Hancock's first career season in 2021, he appeared in three games where he notched two tackles and a pass deflection. Hancock missed the first six games of the 2022 season with a leg injury. Hancock made his first career start in week ten of the 2022 season against

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. Hancock finished the 2022 season with five tackles. In week ten of the 2023 season, Hancock notched his first career interception which he returned 93 yards for a touchdown, as he helped the Buckeyes beat

Rutgers Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and w ...

. For his performance against Rutgers, Hancock was named the Thorpe Award National Defensive Back of the Week.

References

External links

Ohio State Buckeyes bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hancock, Jordan 2003 births Living people Players of American football from Gwinnett County, Georgia American football defensive backs North Gwinnett High School alumni Ohio State Buckeyes football players