Jaylen Roach

Jaylen Roach is a contestant from ​Surviving Reelfoot Lake.

Jaylen was known for being one of the most strategic players on the Surviving Reelfoot Lake season. Playing very cutthroat he executed multiple blindsides, including the first one of the series. His scheming got him all the way to the final 3 after surviving a firemaking challenge, but he could not win final immunity resulting in him being taken out as the biggest jury threat before the final 2.

Profile
Age: 17 Hometown: Barlett, Tennessee Occupation: Seminary Student

Survivor
Jaylen was picked first overall pick by Desiray in the tribe draft to the Kalopin tribe. After winning two rewards they lost the first tribal immunity challenge of the season. Although it was looking like an old versus young divide, Travis wanted to break up the family relationship by taking out Daren, and Jaylen used this as a chance to make a strong ally in Daren, and eliminate a threat in Travis who knew of his hidden immunity idol. At the next premerge tribal council he was called out by Rebecca at tribal for being the biggest threat and sneaky but it was all for naught, as she was voted out.

At the merge down in numbers, Jaylen's alliance managed to find the cracks and were even able to split the votes causing descension in the Copiah ranks. At final 7, Evan tried to blindside Jaylen or flush his idol but Jaylen correctly played his idol negating 3 votes against him and getting his alliance to the final 6 with half of the votes.

After an easy vote off in Ke Andre, Jaylen decided to pull a move on Evan and Daren before the final 4, but because of Daren giving up immunity it led to Daren falling on the sword instead of Evan going home. Recognized as one of the biggest strategic threats at the final 4 he was forced into a firemaking challenge against Evan which he won, but he was unable to secure the final immunity of the season, leaving Jared with the sole vote, and sending Jaylen to out to become the final member of the jury.

At final tribal council, Jaylen decided to reward his closest ally Desiray with his vote while also expressing how good of a game she played and saying that everything that he did, she did as well but even better.

Trivia

 * Jaylen is the first person to find a hidden immunity idol in Surviving Reelfoot history.
 * Jaylen is the first person to successfully negate votes against them with a hidden immunity idol in Surviving Reelfoot history.