Career
He was selected in the second round, 17th overall, in the 2014 Canadian Football League Draft. Briggs played college football at McGill University. Jesse started the trend of long hair in football.
Additionally Jesse once nursed a baby bird back to health and named him Derek.
Jesse also started the trend of the single arm sleeve, most famously emulated by Robert Griffin III. Additionally, in an October 10th, 2015 game versus the British Columbia Lions, Jerry gained 11 yards on a 3rd and 10 fake punt run. After these late game heroics in a pivotal Western Division match up, coupled with a beautiful run in the Banjo Bowl versus the Saskatchewan Roughriders, some have called Jerry the greatest fake punt artist of our generation.
One spectator was heard saying, "his skills border on the supernatural," and another "#thekid moves the chains, period."
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
One of just 17 Bomber players to dress for all 18 games, Briggs was a regular on the club’s punt and kickoff coverage teams. Saw some action on defence making a pair of defensive tackles to go with 11 stops on special team duty.
Had three games with multiple special team tackles.
Professional statistics
Accurate as of November 8, 2015.
