2020 Player Profiles: Jacob Mercadante – Hanover Area

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Billy Splain | June 24, 2020

Jacob Mercadante
Hanover Area
2021
DE, OT, Special teams
Jersey # – 77
Ht- 6’4” Wt – 210lbs
2019 stats- DF: GP-11, Solo-15, Ast-22, Tot-37, Tckl/G- 3.4 TFL- 3.0, Sak – 1, Int- 1,Yds – 52
OF- GP -11, Yds, 52, Tot-52, Yds/G- 4.7
Twitter @ jacob_merc

Let’s Get To Know Jacob!!

Other Sports:
Wrestling

Any awards you’ve won:
2020 All-Academic Bronze Team

Why do you play football?
It has been one of my favorite sports to play since I was young.

Who is your favorite sports star and why?
Nick Bosa, he is a good role model and makes the impossible the possible.

Do you have a favorite play you remember the most? Explain:
The play where I got to pull around the line and run full speed to hit someone.

What game, yours, college or pro, was your favorite game and why?
My Nanticoke game when I was player of the game and got a pick six.

What is your favorite Pro team, any sport?
49ers

What sports movie would you watch every day if you had to pick one and why?
The Blind Side, because Mike showed us in the movie that you do not take stuff for granted.

If your mom and dad are screaming at you from the stands, what is it they usually yell?
Let’s Go and get that ball!

Who is your mentor, the person you want to be like?
My father, he always taught me to work for what I want

Tell everyone something about you that would make them laugh out loud:
I can be a nice guy when I want to be.

When you aren’t playing, practicing or training for sports, what is your go to activity and why?

Riding dirt bikes because it is another hobby of mine, I love to do.

What is your favorite football memory to date?
When I got my pick six as a lineman.

What is your favorite play to run?
DE rush

What scares you the most?
Not being the best, I could be

Music of choice:
Country

WORD GAME
ONE WORD ANSWERS:

PFN      Jacob

PIZZA—food
VACATION—beach
JUMBO—alot
AIR—life
SNACK—chips
VIDEO—film
JUMP—hurdle
COLOR—blue
CHICKEN—food
SNOW—cold
HEAT—summer
HERSHEY—candy
MOVIE STAR—Adam Sandler
CHAMPION—Winner

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