
HS recruit
Class
Junior
Last roster
2025, Northern Illinois
Jake Gassaway is a 6'0", 225-lb Junior LB at Northern Illinois from Omaha, NE.
Updated Oct 26, 2026
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Advanced Statistics
2024 · 25 tklHavoc Plays
4
47th
Ball Plays
0
24th
Solo Tackle Rate
72.0%
97th
Percentiles rank this season against every 2024 FBS and FCS LBs with the same minimum sample. Higher is better.
TVS History
Before past portal windows
| Window | Team | TVS | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Northern Illinois | 45 High | Did not enter |
| 2025 | Northern Illinois | 14 Low | Did not enter |
| 2024 | Northern Illinois | 20 Moderate | Did not enter |
Each score comes from a model trained only on seasons before that roster year, so it shows what TVS would have said at the time.
Season Statistics
| Season | Team | Tackles | Solo | TFL | Sacks | PBU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Northern Illinois | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | Northern Illinois | 25 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | Northern Illinois | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
2025 Northern Illinois LB Room
Filip MaciorowskiLB · $137K
Kimar NelsonLB · $34K
Marc PrettoLB · $7K
KJ McRaeLB · $4K
Trenton NixonLB · $2K
Eliot HummerLB
Danny CroninLB
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