UCLA tight end Jimmy Jaggers announces medical retirement

Staff Writer

June 4, 2018 6:05 PM PT

UCLA freshman tight end Jimmy Jaggers announced on Twitter on Monday that he was taking a medical retirement after being involved in a recent car accident that left him with a third concussion within the last year.

“I may no longer have the opportunity to play at the Rose Bowl,” Jaggers wrote, “but I will still be on scholarship and getting my degree. It was truly an honor being a part of something so special and I will miss the experiences, but know this is what’s best for me.”

Jaggers, a 6-foot-4, 255-pounder out of Roseville High in Northern California, was one of the most widely coveted tight end recruits. He did not play in his first season at UCLA.

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Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

UCLA tight end Jimmy Jaggers announces medical retirement

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