Jake is handsome and athletic. He has a wry sense of humor which can turn crass sometimes; he likes to play pranks, especially when he’s at a party and drinking too much, but it’s possible that one of his “pranks” went too far.

He is Lakewood’s resident lady-magnet. He was best friends with Will Belmont, and despite his always-changing line-up of ladies, he seems to constantly pine after notorious mean girl, Brooke Maddox.

Months after they survive Piper's murder spree, Jake and Brooke are still together. However, when Emma returns to Lakewood in I Know What You Did Last Summer, they have an argument which leads to them breaking up. Later in the episode after Brooke leaves him, he quietly professes his love for her to himself. Jake goes off but is attacked by Ghostface. Later in the episode, he is kept imprisoned, chained up by a bear trap, and later killed by being sliced opened with a scythe.

Shortly after Brooke broke up with him, Jake decided to go to kill a pig and drain its blood into a gasoline can. Jake discovers a wind-up pig toy and walks towards it, only to step into a bear trap. Jake falls to the ground, only to see Ghostface walking towards him. Ghostface then knocks him unconscious with a red bat, and he wakes up in a barn. He sees a brown bat in the corner near the barn doors with stick it notes attached to it, the notes reading Try this Boy, Interrupted. He uses it to break the chain on the door, only for a car's headlights to turn on, and Ghostface appearing and dragging him back into the barn. We then find Jake waking up again, this time hanging upside down. The killer emerges holding a scythe, Jake pleads and tries to defend himself via a table side sickle which he swipes at the killer but loses grip of, the scythe then bouncing across the ground near the killer's feet. Ghostface then swings the scythe up and down upon his sternal to the upper part of his torso, spilling a large portion of his stomach and blood as he dies instantly.