‘Go Deep: The DeSean Jackson Story’ is a truly special sports documentary - Substack
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Documentaries about current and former professional athletes these days run into a lot of pitfalls over and over again. That’s especially true when the athlete himself is credited as one of the film’s executive producers. These films often function as self-congratulatory celebrations of the athlete, which either omit the negative aspects of their story or seek to do PR-style damage control for those things. Even if they don’t do that, the point of most of these documentaries is little more than “that athlete you thought was awesome? He’s really awesome!”But a new sports documentary, Go Deep: The DeSean Jackson Story, is something very different. It has a unique structure; it finds the heart of its story and is refreshingly honest and warts-and-all about its subject. I attended the film’s premiere in New York last week, the day before it debuted on Prime Video. The story of the wide receiver who emerged from California to play 15 years in the NFL, Go Deep easily goes down as one of the best sports documentaries of 2026.
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