Jordan Beck (2024) - Cal Poly Athletics Hall of Fame

Jordan Beck

Induction:
2024

Beck was the first of three consecutive Buck Buchanan Award winners (FCS Defensive Player of the Year) for Cal Poly after notching 135 tackles in his senior season (2004), a school record at the time. He also had four interceptions, 18.5 tackles for lost yardage, 5.5 sacks and nine pass breakups.

Beck’s 449 career tackles remains as the school record and he was the only player in Cal Poly football history to lead his team in tackles all four years until Matt Shotwell accomplished the same feat from 2018-21.

As a senior, Beck was a first-team All-Great West Football Conference linebacker and the league’s defensive player of year. He was named first-team All-America by four outlets, including the American Football Coaches Association and the Walter Camp Foundation, and finished first in the nation (FCS) in solo tackles and forced fumbles, fourth in total tackles and eighth in tackles for lost yardage.

Beck, who played in the 2005 East-West Shrine Game at SBC Park in San Francisco, recorded a school-record 23 tackles in a game at Montana in 2003, and also had 22 tackles at Eastern Washington in 2004. He recorded double-digit tackles 24 times in 43 career games.

Twice Beck returned fumbles for a touchdown in his Cal Poly career and all four of his career interceptions were in his senior season, returning two for touchdowns. He was drafted in the third round by the Atlanta Falcons in 2005 and, after missing the entire 2005 season due to injury, played in 15 games for the Falcons in 2006 (13 tackles) and 11 more for the Denver Broncos in 2007 (10 tackles).