Jakeb Sullivan
Jakeb Jon Wayne Sullivan (born July 1, 1994) is an US-American quarterback. He plays for Berlin Thunder in the 2024 season. Previously, he played for Frankfurt Galaxy from 2021 to 2023.
Career[edit | edit source]
Sullivan is of Native American descent of the Cheyenne River Reservation has four younger siblings. He attended St. Thomas More High School in Rapid City, South Dakota, where his father was football coach. Jakeb Sullivan played baseball and basketball and won the South Dakota state championships in both sports in 2011 and 2012. He also played quarterback for the football team. He was team captain and team MVP, and was named to the All-State and Academic All-State teams.
Sullivan was recruited by Northern State University. After redshirting in 2013, he joined the South Dakota Mines Hardrockers in 2014. He became the starting quarterback of the NCAA Division II program. In his four years at SDSMT he set 17 new school records, 2 All-RMCS best quarterback and Don Hansen All-American Team. With 325.1 yards per game, he led the entire NCAA Division II. In total he completed 293 passes for 3,576 yards, 32 passing touchdowns and 10 rushing touchdowns.
Sullivan signed with the Marburg Mercenaries for the 2019 German Football League season. After nine victories out of 14 games his team qualified for the play-offs, where they lost in the quarterfinals against the Dresden Monarchs. He was nominated in the GFL Allstar Team as the statistical passing leader of this season. He threw for 46 passing touchdowns and ran for 14 rushing touchdowns. In October 2019 he was signed by the Vienna Vikings in the Austrian Football League. He did not start due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sullivan was signed by the Frankfurt Galaxy for the inaugural 2021 European League of Football season. In the regular season Sullivan had the highest passing completion rate (66,2 %) of the league as well as 2,037 passing yards and 23 touchdowns. With a passer rating of 105.96 he was the second best quarterback in the regular season. In the Divisional Championship playoff-game against the Cologne Centurions he scored five passing touchdowns with four different target and was nominated MVP of this game. In the first ELF Championship game the Frankfurt Galaxy won against the Hamburg Sea Devils with a 32:30 score. He was nominated ELF Championship game-MVP, voted to the ELF Allstar game and won the Offensive Player of the Year award.
in the 2022 season, Sullivan could increase his passing rate to 66,3 % and had 2930 passing yards and 31 touchdowns, again the highest in the league. Nevertheless, Galaxy missed out on the playoffs after eight wins and four loses in regular season.
After a knee injury in the first game of the 2023 season against Rhein Fire, Sullivan missed four games. After his return, he lead the team to the playoffs with two losses only against Fire. In the wild card game against Berlin Thunder, he had 265 passing yards and 3 touchdowns, only to face Rhein Fire again in the semifinal. Also Sullivan had 339 passing yards as well as 27 yards rushing, Fire won 42-23.
After the 2023 season, Sullivan and Galaxy decided to part ways. Sullivan was signed by Berlin Thunder for the 2024 season.
Statistics[edit | edit source]
Passing[edit | edit source]
| Year | Team | G | COMP | ATT | CMP% | YDS | TD | INT | SCK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Frankfurt Galaxy | 9 | 174 | 263 | 66.16 | 2037 | 23 | 8 | 22 |
| 2022 | Frankfurt Galaxy | 11 | 246 | 371 | 66.31 | 2930 | 31 | 7 | 23 |
| 2023 | Frankfurt Galaxy | 7 | 141 | 232 | 60.78 | 1677 | 16 | 5 | 22 |
| 2024 | Berlin Thunder | 12 | 258 | 411 | 62.77 | 3216 | 25 | 10 | 21 |
| Sum | 39 | 819 | 1277 | 64.1 | 9860 | 95 | 30 | 88 | |
Rushing[edit | edit source]
| Year | Team | G | ATT | YDS | AVG | YPG | LNG | TD | TD/G | FMB | FML | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Frankfurt Galaxy | 11 | 74 | 313 | 4.2 | 28.5 | 17 | 5 | 0.5 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2024 | Berlin Thunder | 12 | 48 | 161 | 3.4 | 13.4 | 30 | 3 | 0.3 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Frankfurt Galaxy | 9 | 43 | 125 | 2.9 | 13.9 | 25 | 5 | 0.6 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2023 | Frankfurt Galaxy | 7 | 51 | 52 | 1 | 7.4 | 27 | 3 | 0.4 | 2 | 0 | |
| Sum | 39 | 216 | 651 | 3 | 16.7 | 16 | 0.4 | 9 | 1 | |||
