Player facts
- Team
Atlanta Falcons- Position
- Safety
- Number
- 3
- Born
- Feb 26, 1997 (age 29)
- Birthplace
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Height
- 6' 1"
- Weight
- 210 lbs
- College
- Wake Forest
- Experience
- 9 seasons
- Status
- Active
Stats
2026 Defense
| TOT | SOLO | AST | SACK | FF | FR | YDS | INT | YDS | AVG | TD | LNG | PD | STF | STFYDS | KB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regular Season | 24 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Last 5 Games | 24 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 834 | 546 | 288 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 46 | 27 | 384 | 14.2 | 4 | 92 | 72 | 22.5 | 28 | 0 |
Recent games
| Tackles | Fumbles | Interceptions | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Opponent | Result | TOT | SOLO | AST | SACK | FF | FR | INT | YDS | AVG | TD | LNG | PD | KB |
vs  BAL | L 30-23 OT | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
@  NO | W 45-24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
@  GB | W 35-14 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
vs  CAR | L 34-3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
@  PIT | L 20-13 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Last 5 games. Click a game for its box score.
About
Jessie Bates III (born February 26, 1997) is an American professional football safety for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the second round of the 2018 NFL draft.
From Wikipedia’s article on Jessie Bates, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.1
Background
Early life
Bates attended Snider High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Along with football, he also played basketball. He originally committed to play college football for the Toledo Rockets, but he flipped his commitment to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in February 2015. Bates is the son of his single mother Theresa and has 6 siblings, his older sister Aaliyah, his younger brother Von and step-siblings Donavan, Nate, Kameron and Ariana.
College career
Bates did not play as a true freshman at Wake Forest in 2015 and chose to redshirt.
As a redshirt freshman in 2016, Bates played in all 13 of Wake Forest's games. He returned 18 punts for 73 yards along with tallying five interceptions (two returned for touchdowns), 100 tackles (3.5 for loss), four pass deflections and one forced fumble. After the season, he was named to the USA Today Freshman All-America Team, the All-Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Second-team, and to the ACC All-Freshman First-team.
In 2017, as a redshirt sophomore, Bates played in 11 of Wake Forest's 13 games, missing two due to injury. In those 11 games, he returned eight punts for 161 yards and one touchdown along with recording 79 tackles (six for loss), five pass deflections and one forced fumble. After the season, he declared for the 2018 NFL draft.
From Wikipedia’s article on Jessie Bates, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full article.1
Falcons’ next games
Recent results
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Sources
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- 1WikipediaJessie Bates on Wikipedia
- 2Wikimedia CommonsPhoto of Jessie Bates III