Jake Burns

Position:
Center
Height:
6-2
Weight:
320
Class:
Graduate Student
Hometown:
Akron, Ohio
High School:
Archbishop Hoban
Prev School:
Cincinnati

Bowling Green

Years of Eligibility Remaining Including 2025: 1

HONORS
• 2024 CFN All-MAC Flex (HM)

2025 | Graduate
• Started against Lafayette, Cincinnati and Liberty

2024 | Senior
• Appeared in all 13 of BGSU's games with seven starts
• Took part in 639 snaps, which included 448 at right guard, 181 at left guard and 10 at center
• Started the final six games of the season at right guard and one game at left guard against NIU

2023 | Junior
• Appeared in 11 of BGSU's 13 games with five starts
• Started BGSU's last five games at left guard
• Took part in 378 snaps during the season
• Recorded 268 snaps at left guard and 54 at center
• Also recorded 56 special teams snaps between field goals and extra point attempts

2022 | Sophomore
• Appeared in three of BGSU's 13 games
• Spent all his time on special teams
• Made collegiate debut at Toledo
• Also saw time at Ohio and in the Quick Lane Bowl against New Mexico State

Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Ohio

• Spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons at Cincinnati
• Part of Cincinnati’s 2020 and 2021 American Athletic Conference’s (AAC) championship squad that appeared in the 2021 Peach Bowl (vs. Georgia) and the 2022 Cotton Bowl (vs. Alabama) in the College Football Playoff

Archbishop Hoban High School

Akron, Ohio

• A 2020 graduate of Archbishop Hoban where he played for head coach Tim Tyrrell
• Spent three years at Wooster High School
• Four-year letterwinner in football and wrestler in high school
• Helped Hoban to an 11-2 record in 2019 and a North Coast League title and regional DII runner-up finish
• A strong and athletic tackle with the ability to steamroll defenders in the run-game (36 pancakes) as well as keep quarterbacks upright (one sack allowed in 210 attempts)
• Major factor on an offensive unit that tallied 5,133 total yards (395 per game) and 37.9 points per game (third all-time) in ‘19.
• Made 85 stops at Wooster in 2018 on the way to a conference championship
• Also helped Wooster to a conference championship in 2016
• First-team all-conference and all-district honoree in 2019
• Akron Beacon Journal Lineman of the Year finalist and first-team All-Ohio honoree
• In wrestling notched 100+ wins in high school career and went 39-2 senior year before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the Ohio state wrestling tournament
• Two-time state qualifier in football

Personal

• Son of Heather and Michael Burns
• Has two brothers, Gabe and Christian
• Favorite athlete is Davante Adams
• Career aspiration is to be a sport agent
• Aspiring pro bowler and does aerial yoga
• Major in individualized business