Justin Joseph Jackson (born April 22, 1996) is an American former professional football running back.

Phil Jackson Jr. ended up going to Northwest Missouri State, winning three Division II national championships.

[5] As a junior in 2012, Jackson competed in the state finals against Mount Carmel high school.

As a senior in 2013, Jackson recorded 42 carries for 405 yards and five touchdowns in a 40–34 win over eventual 8A state champion No.

He finished the 2013 season with 3,171 rushing yards in 11 games, the second most in a single season in IHSA history; the 3-seeded Panthers were upset in the second round of the playoffs by 6-seed and eventual 8A semifinalist Stevenson High School (Lincolnshire, Illinois),[6] otherwise Jackson would have had up to three more games to rush for 155 yards for the Illinois single-season record.

[7] He was the winner of the Gatorade High School Football Player of the Year award for the state of Illinois for the 2012–13 and 2013–14 seasons.

[8] After being one of the most successful high school running backs in Illinois history, Jackson joined the Northwestern Wildcats football team in 2014.

[14][15] He finished off the year with a 224-yard, three-touchdown effort against the Pitt Panthers in the 2016 Pinstripe Bowl where he showed off his quickness, vision, and efficient running style.

[30] In Week 13, against the Pittsburgh Steelers on NBC Sunday Night Football, he had eight carries for 63 yards and his first professional rushing touchdown.

[31] The following week against the Kansas City Chiefs, Jackson made his first career start following injuries to Melvin Gordon and Austin Ekeler, rushing for 58 yards on 16 carries and scoring a touchdown.

[33] He made his postseason debut with two carries for five rushing yards in the 23–17 victory over the Baltimore Ravens in the Wild Card Round.

On Twitter, Jackson exchanged comments with Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden after he critiqued an email of hers which insinuated that the United States of America should take Libya's oil to help mitigate the U.S.

[52] Jackson has also criticized Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and many other progressive Democrats in Congress for refusing to withhold their votes for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House of Representatives until Pelosi agreed to bring Medicare for All to a floor vote.