2008 Burrow redshirted this season, his first on the Vanderbilt campus..Worked as defensive end on practice squads.

High School Named permanent captain after season… Four-year varsity letter winner; three-year starter at DE… Posted 138 total tackles, nine QB sacks and six forced fumbles as senior… Accumulated nearly 400 tackles in career… Helped squad to state playoffs in 2006… Two-time All-State and two-time north Jefferson County Defensive Player of the Year… Power forward in basketball… Lettered in baseball and track… Named Mr. Mortimer Jordan… National Honor Society member… Regional winner of prestigious Bryant-Jordan Scholarship.

Personal
John Allen Burrow… ‘Jabo’… Son of Mike and Vivian Burrow… Born Nov. 20, 1989… Has an older sister and two younger brothers… Dad coaches and teaches at Jordan H.S.; mom is an editor… Father also was an All-SEC OL at Auburn, drafted by Buffalo Bills… Plays the piano.