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2025 NIU Football Roster

Scott Walstrom, NIU
Scott Walstrom, NIU

14 Jalen Macon

  • Height 6-5
  • Weight 230
  • Class Redshirt Junior
  • Position Quarterback
  • Hometown Nashville, Tenn.
  • High School Hillsboro
  • Prev School UAPB

Biography

2024
  • Only game action came in the 2024 season opener versus Western Illinois. (8/31)
  • Completed 4-of-7 passes for 50 yards with a long completion of 14 yards. 
  • Recorded 5 carries for 27 yards to average 5.4 yards per carry.
  • Scored on a nine-yard touchdown run. 
  • Transferred to NIU in January 2024 alongside UAPB teammate Kenji Lewis.

PRIOR TO NIU (2021-23 at University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff)
2023 
• Saw action in the first six games of the season.
• After splitting time through the first four games, earned the starting job for the Southern (9/30) and Mississippi Valley (10/14) games before missing the rest of the year.
• Completed 61 passes on 92 attempts (65.9%) for 631 yards to lead UAPB in passing despite playing in just six games.   
• Threw three TD passes with one interception. 
• Rushed for 119 yards on 39 attempts. 
• Gained a season high 54 rushing yards on seven carries at Mississippi Valley and totaled 26 yards versus both Alabama A&M (9/21) and Southern (9/30).
• Threw for a season high 227 yards on 17-of-29 passing at Alabama A&M with two touchdowns.
• Led UAPB’s passing attacks with 206 yards through the air vs Tennessee State (9/23) while completing 19-of-24 passes.
• Went 7-of-11 passing against Southern, completed 5-of-7 passes versus Miles  (9/16) with a touchdown and 54 yards, and hit all five of his passing attempts for 41 yards in the season opener at Tulsa (8/31).  

2022
• Played in four of the first five games. 
• Completed 24-of-44 passes for 303 yards with a touchdown for a 54.5 percent completion rate.
• Rushed for 50 yards on 15 attempts, including two carries for 50 yards total versus North American (9/10). 
• Passed for season-high 134 yards while going 12-for-21 at Southern (10/1).
• Threw for 79 yards on 5-of-13 passing at Oklahoma State (9/17).

2021
• Redshirted the season. 

HIGH SCHOOL
• Played two varsity seasons at Hillsboro High School in Nashville.
• Threw for 1,055 yards on 59-of-123 passing with 12 touchdowns as a junior in 2019. 
• Played in just one game as a senior in 2020, completing 6-of-7 passes for 159 yards and four touchdowns. 
• Also a member of the Burros’ varsity basketball team.

PERSONAL
• Goes by “Chance”
• Son of Bianca Montgomery and Terricus Macon has three siblings: Madison, Tierney, and Braylen
• Majoring in communications/media studies with a minor in art.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 14

    2024Redshirt Junior

    Quarterback
    6'5" 230 lbs
    14
  • 14

    2025Redshirt Junior

    Quarterback
    6'5" 230 lbs
    14