2024 Football Roster
Newman, Jalen

Jersey Number 22
Jalen Newman
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 190
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Matthews, N.C.
- High School:
- Weddington
Bio
2024: Appeared in nine games, adding 16 tackles and two passes defended … Added five tackles at Lehigh (Sept. 21) … Made four stops vs. Cornell (Nov. 2).
2023: Did not miss any games … Made 29 tackles and recorded an interception … Recorded four tackles vs. Columbia (Sept. 29) and at Brown (Oct. 14) … Intercepted a pass vs. Harvard (Oct. 21) … Season-best eight tackles at Cornell (Oct. 28).
2022: Saw action in every game … Made 18 tackles including three for a loss.
2021: Developed in the team’s three junior varsity games … Appeared in the Stetson contest.
Before Princeton:
Weddington: 2018 & 2019 3AA State Champion...2019 Defensive Most Improved Player...2020 SCC All-Conference...
Personal: Son of Nakia and Michael Newman ... Has a sister, Kayla and brother, Jackson ... Father, Michael, played football at North Carolina A&T State University.
2023: Did not miss any games … Made 29 tackles and recorded an interception … Recorded four tackles vs. Columbia (Sept. 29) and at Brown (Oct. 14) … Intercepted a pass vs. Harvard (Oct. 21) … Season-best eight tackles at Cornell (Oct. 28).
2022: Saw action in every game … Made 18 tackles including three for a loss.
2021: Developed in the team’s three junior varsity games … Appeared in the Stetson contest.
Before Princeton:
Weddington: 2018 & 2019 3AA State Champion...2019 Defensive Most Improved Player...2020 SCC All-Conference...
Personal: Son of Nakia and Michael Newman ... Has a sister, Kayla and brother, Jackson ... Father, Michael, played football at North Carolina A&T State University.
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