Jacob Cardwell Young, III (March 22, 1968 — October 12, 2002) was an American football center who played college football for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and attended Midland Lee High School in Midland, Texas.
He was a first-team All-American in 1988 and a consensus first-team All-American in 1989.
Young was inducted into the Nebraska Football Hall of Fame in 2000.