Elijah Jackson had every reason to be a step slow, to be distracted, to be disappointed during Saturday’s Washington-Northwestern football game.
Yet with the Huskies suffering a major lapse on a fourth-quarter kickoff return, the junior cornerback and special-teamer never gave in, never let up and never stopped running until he tripped up the Wildcats’ Joseph Himon II on a 96-yard runback that needed to go two more yards for him to reach the end zone.
Jackson has a history of making game-saving plays, swatting away an end-zone pass on the final play of the Sugar Bowl and CFP semifinals to preserve a 37-31 victory over Texas…