2024:
- Ended season with a career-high 23 tackles and one touchdown, plus two pass breakups and one tackle for loss
- Had four tackles with one pass breakup in The Hawai‘i Bowl vs. South Florida (12/24)
- Two tackles and one tackle for loss vs. No. 13 Boise State (11/16)
- Career-high seven tackles vs. Nevada (10/05)
- Had first career interception vs. Kennesaw State (9/14)
2023:
- Appeared in nine games
- Had pass breakup at New Mexico (10/14)
- Had first career fumble recovery and pass breakup vs. Cal Poly (9/9)
2022:
- Appeared in two games
- Recorded one tackle for loss against Western Michigan on (9/24)
2021:
- Completed a redshirt season
- Appeared in the regular season finale against Fresno State (11/25)
HIGH SCHOOL:
- Lettered in football (Coaches Derek Stank and Jason Texler) at San Marcos (Calif.) High
- Two-time All-Avocado League honoree
- Team captain and his team's Most Valuable Player in 2019
- Second-team all-league wide receiver as a senior
- Caught 36 passes for 615 yards and seven touchdowns
- Added two rushing scores and an interception returned for a touchdown
- As a junior, earned first-team all-league honors as a defensive back after intercepting four passes
- A sprinter, long jumper and triple jumper in track and field
- 2019 Avocado League long jump champion with a school-record setting mark of 22-feet-10.5
PERSONAL: Would like to major in business administration ... Has an interest in owning and operating an athletic performance facility ... Chris Bainer, his dad, was a member of the 1993 University of San Diego football program ... Jalen is a San Diego native.