Academic Life and School career

Franklin went to Susan Miller Dorsey High School, Los Angeles Unified School District. He was a high school footballer and was named as first-team all-city as a running back and had third- team selection as a cornerback. He was named as Coliseum League player of the Year. Besides football, Franklin also participated in track and field and had a personal best of 11.01 seconds in 100 meters and was also a member of the cast for the reality television series called ‘Baldwin Hills’. He became popular as one of the best running backs in USA and became the Doak Walker Award finalist in the year 2012.

He was awarded the athletic scholarship to attend University of California, Los Angeles. He participated in UCLA Bruins Football team from the year 2009-2012. He was recognized as Second-team All-America by Associated Press, Walter camp, sportsillustrated.com and Fox sports next.

After College professional Career

He had the best record of thirty carries for 216 yards in Washington State game. He played a total of thirteen games and carried 268 times for 1,734 yards for 13 touchdowns with an average of 133.4 yards at each game. He had the longest run of 78 yards and led the Bruins to lead in the pac-12 south division championship. At this game at Stanford, Jonathan ran a total of 194 yards and it became his 9th game to run 100-yard, which became a new school record after Freeman MCneil in 1980, Karim Abdul-Jabbar in 1995, Gaston Green in 1986 and Wendell Tyler in 1975.

At UCLA, He broke the all-time record of Gaston Green’s 3731 yard after winning a 66-10 victory against Arizona. It was then when Jonathan Franklin was voted as the 2nd best running backs in the entire nation after Montee Ball.

Talking about his present net worth, Franklin earned $810,468 in his first season and after signing a 4 year contract of $2,565,468 with Green Bay packers, he had a capital worth of $776,367 having dead money valued $776,367.

After Football Career

Franklin went through a severe injury in his neck during his rookie season. He was told that he had to end his football career prematurely. On 19th of June, 2014 Franklin ended his career after announcing his retirement from NFL. After his retirement he decided to pursue an internship at Packer organization. He said” I love this game of Football and it hurts and bothers me, but I know God has something better for me.” After moving his career from sports to sales and business development and the media department, He was hired as a coordinator and administrator for the ‘student welfare and development’ by university of Notre Dame.