AT GEORGIA STATE: Two-year starter on the defensive line for the first two seasons of Georgia State football ... Played four different positions in two years with the program, moving from tight end (spring 2010) to defensive end (2010 season) to defensive tackle (spring 2011) and noseguard (2011 season) ... Career total of 48 tackles ... Member of 2010 recruiting class who enrolled at Georgia State in January 2010 after two seasons at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas.
2011: Named to the 2011 Capital One CoSIDA Academic All-District first team, one of the first two such honorees in GSU history ... Also named to the named to the 14th annual Football Championship Subdivision Athletics Directors Association Academic All-Star Team and is one of 12 finalists for the 11th Annual FCS ADA's $5,000 postgraduate scholarship ... Georgia State's nominee for the National Football Foundation National Scholar-Athlete Awards ... Earned the team's Scholar-Athlete Award.
Starting noseguard for every game ... Made 18 tackles with one tackle for loss ... Season-high four tackles at UTSA ... Earned the team's Leadership Award (Defense) following spring practice.
2010: Starting defensive end for the Panthers' inaugural team ... Credited with 30 tackles on the season, including 15 solo hits and 15 assists ... Had one sack and 1.5 tackles for loss ...
Career-high six tackles, including five solo hits and a sack against Lambuth ... Added four tackles against Jacksonville State, Old Dominion and South Alabama ... Made two solo tackles at Alabama ... Began his Georgia State career at tight end before moving to defensive end following spring practice.
ACADEMICS: One of the first two Capital One CoSIDA Academic All-District selections in GSU football history ... Also Georgia State's first selection to the FCS ADA Academic All-Star Team ... Named to the President's List, signifying a GPA of 4.0 or higher, for the spring 2010 and spring 2011 ... Added Dean's List honors in the fall 2010 and fall 2011 ... Serves on the team's Leadership Council ... Earned 2011 Picket Riggs Award as the GSU junior male student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA ...
HIGH SCHOOL/JUNIOR COLLEGE: Honorable mention all-conference selection (Southwest Junior College Football Conference) ... Helped Navarro to a two-year record of 21-2, including an 11-1 mark and a No. 3 national ranking in the NJCAA in 2009 ... Team won the Heart of Texas Bowl ... Had nine catches for 154 yards in 2009 .... Two-year starter for coach by Nick Bobeck ... Made the Dean's List for the fall 2009 ... Attended Midlothian (Texas) High, where he played for coach Robby Clark.
PERSONAL: Full name is Kalan Hunter Jenkins ... First name pronounced KAY-lin ... Parents are Kendall and Brendan Jenkins ... Born March, 3, 1990.
CAREER STATISTICS:
|
Year
|
G
|
UA
|
A
|
Total
|
TFL
|
Sack
|
Int
|
PB
|
FR
|
FF
|
|
2010
|
11
|
15
|
15
|
30
|
1.5-3
|
1-2
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
2011
|
11
|
9
|
9
|
18
|
1-1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
|
Total
|
22
|
24
|
24
|
48
|
2.5-4
|
1-2
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
