Given a quasi-reductive algebraic supergroup G, we use the theory of semisimplifications of symmetric monoidal categories to define a symmetric monoidal functor Φ x : Rep(G) → Rep(OSp(1|2)) associated to any given element x ∈ Lie(G)1. For nilpotent elements x, we show that the functor Φ x can be defined using the Deligne filtration associated to x.We use this approach to prove an analogue of the Jacobson-Morozov Lemma for algebraic supergroups. Namely, we give a necessary and sufficient condition on odd nilpotent elements x ∈ Lie(G)1 which define an embedding of supergroups OSp(1|2) → G so that x lies in the image of the corresponding Lie algebra homomorphism.