ENGLEWOOD — The dog days of Broncos training camp are nothing compared to the Air Force training of defensive lineman Jordan Jackson.

“There are definitely harder things out there in life than football,” Jackson told The Denver Gazette.

Like Air Force survival training.

In the summer of 2018, before his sophomore football season, Jackson said he joined a group of cadets who packed “a rucksack with clothes and camping materials” and proceeded to “march out into the back woods” surrounding the Air Force campus in Colorado Springs.

“There’s one day where they teach you how to skin a rabbit and cook a rabbit,” Jackson said. “It’s a week of being out there with no shower ... and they’re teaching you different things. You have a shooting class and different camping things.”

Jackson persever

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