Named to the Chicago Sun-Times All-Area first team and the Chicago Tribune All-State honorable mention team … Lawless Award recipient, which honors the top senior in the Chicago Catholic League … Team captain was named the Northwest Indiana Times Offensive Player of the Year after throwing for 1,221 yards on 75-of-125, passing for 16 touchdowns and rushing for 848 yards on 141 carries (a 6.0 average) with 15 touchdowns … Earned all-conference honors twice while leading his team to two Class 8A semifinal appearances … As a quarterback at Mount Carmel H.S., threw for 1,120 passing yards on 69-of-135 attempts … Totaled 486 rushing yards on 94 carries … Scored 24 total touchdowns (15 passing, nine rushing) while helping his team to a 12-1 record in 2007 … Also earned all-conference and all-area honors that year.

“Jordan comes from a great football program,” Northern Illinois University head coach Jerry Kill said. “Anybody out of Mt. Carmel is going to have good character because of the character of their coach, Frank Lenti.

“Jordan is an excellent student-athlete that we are very excited about joining our program and also very excited that he’s going to represent our country this summer. I do not think there is a better honor than to have USA across your jersey.”