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Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson had a surprisingly low GPA in his sophomore year of high school before a quick turnaround.
Lamar Jackson attended Boynton Beach Community High School in Florida before committing to the Louisville Cardinals football team. While Jackson easily dominated the competition in high school, his journey to Louisville certainly wasn’t devoid of hardships.
The ML Football X/Twitter account passed along an old quote from Jackson, where the two-time MVP admitted that he only had a 1.5 GPA during his sophomore year. Jackson claimed he had to learn “the hard way” that school is the priority over everything else.
INSANE: #Ravens star quarterback Lamar Jackson had a 1.5 GPA during his Sophomore Year of High School.
“My 10th-grade year, I had a 1.5 GPA,” Jackson said. “School comes first. I found out the hard way.”
Jackson was not eligible to play football in 10th grade due to his grades. pic.twitter.com/GCZcNKRdzE
— MLFootball (@_MLFootball) August 4, 2025
Jackson made the comments to Jodie Wagner of The Palm Beach Post back in 2017:
“I didn’t have any expectations at first, because my 10th grade year, I had a 1.5 GPA. School comes first. I found out the hard way. I completed my 10th grade year. I was hurt. But I trained that year. I felt I owed it to my team, and my mother. My assistant principal at Boynton High was with me along the way.”
And the rest, as they say, is history. Lamar Jackson elevated his high school GPA, received an offer from Louisville and graduated with a degree in communications. The Baltimore Ravens traded up to select him 32nd overall in 2018, and he has since asserted himself as one of the league’s best quarterbacks.
The two-time league MVP and the Ravens will kick off the 2025 campaign against Josh Allen’s Buffalo Bills on Sept. 7, the first “Sunday Night Football” game of the season. This will be a rematch of last season’s Divisional Round, which Buffalo won 27-25.
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