Biography

BIOGRAPHY

Franklin Willis Jackson was born on May 4, 1998, in Washington, D.C. He is a point guard in the NBA.

He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils. The freshman guard was ranked as a five-star recruit, with a 94 recruiting grade, and was the #11 player in the class of 2016 and the top college prospect in the state of Utah, according to ESPN.  

Jackson lived in Alpine, Utah, and committed to Duke on September 1, 2015. Franklin attended Lehi High School as a freshman before transferring to Lone Peak High School as a sophomore. Jackson was recruited by Duke, Arizona, Arizona State, BYU, Maryland, Stanford, UCLA, and Utah. He originally committed to BYU as a freshman but backed out after receiving interest from other schools. Jackson is the son of former Utah state senator Al Jackson, and the second-oldest of five children. Jackson is a Republican and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He has also lived in Oregon and the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., where his father worked as a lobbyist for the aerospace industry.

Jackson signed a two-year extension with the Pistons in August, 2021.