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15 Jake Heimlicher

  • Height
    6-4
  • Weight
    245
  • Class
    Senior
  • Hometown
    Aurora, Colo.
  • Highschool
    Regis Jesuit

Biography

Career Honors:
2022 Third-team Associated Press All-America
2022 Fourth-team Phil Steele/DraftScout All-America
2022: First-team All-Ivy
2022: Buck Buchanan Award finalist
2022: Academic All-Ivy
2022: PhillySIDA Academic All-Area Performer of the Year
2021: Honorable Mention All-Ivy. 

2022: Co-Captain … Third-team Associated Press All-America … Fourth-team Phil Steele/DraftScout All-America … First-team All-Ivy selection … Buck Buchanan Award finalist, named for the FCS Defensive Player of the Year … Led the Ivy League in sacks (9.0), the most by a Quaker since Mike Germino’s 9.5 in 1999 … His nine sacks ranked 10th among FCS defenders at season’s end … Led his teammates with 13.0 TFLs for a loss of 51 yards … Totaled 47 tackles (with 28 solos) to rank fifth on the team … Totaled career-high 13 total tackles at Dartmouth (9/30) … Registered an interception against Yale (10/22), finishing the season tied for the team lead … Named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week in back-to-back weeks to open the season, the seventh Ivy player to accomplish the feat and the first from Penn … Academic All-Ivy … Named PhillySIDA’s Academic All-Area Performer of the Year.

2021: Started and appeared in all 10 games on the defensive line … Honorable Mention All-Ivy … Finished the year with 51 tackles, 12.5 TFLs, 7.5 sacks and 12 quarterback hurries. Ranked fourth in the Ivy League in sacks and fifth in TFLs … Had eight tackles at Bucknell (9/18) … Recorded seven tackles and 1.5 sacks at Lafayette (9/25) … Had one sack and four QBH versus Lehigh (10/9) … Registered a career-high three sacks against Brown (10/30) … Recorded seven tackles and one sack versus Princeton (11/20).

2020: All 2020 Ivy League fall sports were canceled on July 8 due to a nationwide outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19.

2019: Appeared in all 10 games at linebacker … Finished with 14 tackles, including 2.0 TFLs and 1.0 sacks … Had four solo tackles against Dartmouth (10/4) … Had three tackles, including 1.0 sacks versus Brown (11/2).

2018: Appeared in one game, seeing action at Princeton (11/17).

Regis Jesuit: Twice served as team captain … Two-time conference Player of the Year (2016, 2017) … Two-time All-State (2016. 2017) … Two-time Denver Post All-State (2016, 2017) … 2017 Denver Post Golden Helmet Award runner-up … Honor Roll student.
 
Personal: Son of Laura and Larry Heimlicher … Enrolled in the Wharton School of Business.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 45

    2018Freshman

    LB
    6'4" 215 lbs
    45
  • 45

    2019Sophomore

    LB
    6'4" 220 lbs
    45
  • 15

    2020Junior

    LB
    6'4" 220 lbs
    15
  • 15

    2021Senior

    LB
    6'4" 240 lbs
    15
  • 15

    2022Senior

    DL
    6'4" 245 lbs
    15