Jake Andrews

2022 All-Sun Belt First Team

2022 (Senior): Earned All-Sun Belt First Team honors … Started all 14 games at center after transitioning from guard ... Led the Trojans to a Sun Belt Championship, Cure Bowl title and final No. 19 ranking in the AP Top 25; Troy’s first-ever postseason ranking … Played 914 of 917 offensive snaps ... Called for just four penalties in 14 games … Highest-rated offensive lineman in the Sun Belt per Pro Football Focus for overall offensive grade … Troy’s top-rated run blocker per Pro Football Focus … Finished season with 97.5 PFF Efficiency rating … Played 2,796 career snaps, allowed just six sacks in 1,653 career pass-blocking situations … Played 1,052 snaps at center and 1,741 snaps at guard … Behind the offensive line, Troy scored on 50 percent of more its possessions in the final two regular season games and the SBC Championship game

2021 (Junior): Started all 12 games at right guard, played a total of 784 snaps over 12 games … Troy’s top-rated pass blocker and second-rated run blocker per Pro Football Focus … Allowed just one sack on 468 pass blocking snaps; additionally allowed just three hits and 12 pressures … Led Troy with a 98.5 efficiency rating per PFF … Ranked 29th nationally and 10th in the Group of Five among all guards in pass blocking … Did not allow a sack in the final 10 games of the season … Season-high 83.3 overall grade and 87.7 rush blocking grade at South Carolina … Posted a 100 efficiency rating in four different games; Southern, Texas State, South Alabama, App State 

2020 (Sophomore): Started all 11 games for the Trojans at right guard … Ranked ninth nationally and fourth among guards with a 99.2 pass block efficiency rating among players with at least 300 snaps per Pro Football Focus; allowed just one sack, two hits, four hurries and seven pressures in 513 pass blocking situations … Per PFF, graded out at 83 percent or better in seven games with a season-best 88.9 in the finale vs. Coastal Carolina … Key starter on an offensive line that ranked second nationally per PFF with a 93.0 pass blocking efficiency rating (teams at least 300 pass attempts) … His overall 84.6 pass blocking grade was the sixth-best nationally among guards … Played 804 total snaps on the season … Troy’s leading run blocker with a 79.7 PFF grade … Did not allow a sack in the final seven games of the season and allowed just one pressure in that stretch

2019 (RS-Freshman): Played in all 12 games and 273 total snaps; split time over three positions – left guard, center and right guard … Did not allow a sack all season and was called for just one penalty; allowed just four total pressures … Played a season-high 73 snaps in the season finale against App State (started in place of injured Dylan Bradshaw); 154 of his 273 total snaps played came in the final three games …  Graded out at a season-best 89.4 percent per PFF on 46 pass blocking attempts against Southern Miss

2018 (Freshman): Saw action in three games as a true freshman … Played on the offensive line against Florida A&M and as a blocking tight end at Georgia Southern and Appalachian State … Credited with 19 total snaps played and one knockdown block … Redshirted

High School: Named second team all-state in 2016 … Also named all-county and all-metro twice … Ranked the 46th overall recruit in the state of Alabama by 247 Sports … Recorded 45 pancakes in 11 games his senior year … Won the state championship in wrestling his senior year … Invited to play in the 2017 Alabama/Mississippi All-Star Game

Personal: Full name is Jacob Wesley Andrews … Born Nov. 11, 1999, in Montgomery, Ala. … Son of Lisa and Robert Andrews … Has two sisters, Olivia and Emily