_{Former Piscataway star Malcolm Jenkins is inducted into the Philadelphia Eagles’ Hall of Fame on November 28, 2025. (Source: @malcolmjenkins on Instagram)} 

At Piscataway High School, Malcolm Jenkins was part of a Chiefs football team that would later earn even more recognition it did at the time, hard to fathom when that 2004 squad – his senior year – went undefeated, beat Phillipsburg in overtime for a state title, and set a modern day Middlesex County record with seven shutouts in its 12 games.

Jenkins played his collegiate ball at Ohio State, classmate Kyle Wilson went to Boise State, and Anthony Davis went to Rutgers. Eventually, all three went to the NFL, earning the 2004 team another distinction: having three players on the same squad picked in the first round of the NFL Draft.

On Friday afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field, Jenkins – who won two Super Bowls as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles – was inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame at halftime of their game against the Chicago Bears. 

“Philly, we’re back together again. And this time, it’s forever,” Jenkins wrote on the team’s website in a letter to fans in advance of the honor.

“When I left the Eagles in 2020, I said it felt like a breakup. I meant that,” Jenkins wrote. “You don’t just walk away from something that shaped you, challenged you, and held you accountable without feeling like a piece of you was left behind. What I didn’t know then was that love doesn’t always require proximity. If it’s real, it will find its way back. Today, being inducted into the Eagles Hall of Fame feels like finding my way home.”

Jenkins was drafted in 2009 by the New Orleans Saints, and played there through 2014, then moving on the Philly, where he was a member of the franchise’s second Super Bowl champion teams, in Super Bowl LII. He also won Super Bowl XLIV with New Orleans.

He’s also an entrepreneur, social justice activist, and philanthropist, establishing the Malcolm Jenkins Foundation, whose goal – according to its website – is to “expand economic opportunity for youth and young adults in underserved communities by delivering culturally grounded programs in financial literacy, education, and career pathways – empowering the next generation to build lasting economic security and generational wealth.” 

The 2004 Piscataway team was the pinnacle of Jenkins’ high school career, where he won three straight championships, beating Hunterdon Central in 2002 playing for head coach Joe Kuronyi, the Union in 2023 and Phillipsburg in 2004 under Dan Higgins, who remains the Chiefs’ head coach to this day.

He also won the state’s 400 meter run in track his junior year.

At Ohio State he was first team All-Big Ten his sophomore season, with 55 tackles and four interceptions, and his junior year as well. As a senior, he won the Jim Thorpe Award, given to the nation’s best defensive back. He had 57 tackles and three picks that year, and was a consensus All-American. He played in the BCS national title game his sophomore and junior seasons.