Jacob Rogers is a retired American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 offensive tackle in the National Football League

National Football League

The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...

 who is currently working in private business in Ventura, Ca.

Early years

Rogers attended Oxnard High School

Oxnard High School

Oxnard High School, or OHS as it is commonly referred to, is a public four-year high school serving grades 9–12 in Oxnard, Ventura County, California, United States...

, where he played tight end

Tight end

The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...

, defensive end

Defensive end

Defensive end is the name of a defensive position in the sport of American and Canadian football.This position has designated the players at each end of the defensive line, but changes in formations have substantially changed how the position is played over the years...

, linebacker

Linebacker

A linebacker is a position in American football that was invented by football coach Fielding H. Yost of the University of Michigan. Linebackers are members of the defensive team, and line up approximately three to five yards behind the line of scrimmage, behind the defensive linemen...

, and punter

Punter (football position)

A punter in American or Canadian football is a special teams player who receives the snapped ball directly from the line of scrimmage and then punts the football to the opposing team so as to limit any field position advantage. This generally happens on a fourth down in American football and a...

. As a senior tight end, he caught 39 passes for 412 yards (10.6 yards per reception). As a junior, he had caught 17 passes for 201 yards. He also averaged ten rebounds a game for the Oxnard High School basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 team.

College career

At the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

, Rogers was a three year starter, and one of the nation's top offensive tackles as an All-America

All-America

An All-America team is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players—those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply...

n Senior and Morris Trophy winner.
He played in the 2003 Orange Bowl and the 2004 Rose Bowl.

Professional career

His professional career never materialized after he incurred further injury to previously damaged cartilage during a preseason game. The injury forced him to undergo season-ending microfracture surgery on his right knee prior to the start of the 2005 season. On March 17, 2006,after an additional surgery to the same knee and arthroscopic surgery on both shoulders, the Cowboys released Rogers and at the time, he was the highest drafted player to be released from the 2004 NFL Draft

2004 NFL Draft

The 2004 NFL Draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 24-25, 2004 at the theater at Madison Square Garden...

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He played one preseason for the Denver Broncos In 2007.

Coaching career

Rogers began coaching at University of Mississippi in 2007 and also coached at Central Connecticut State University in 2008 and 2009.

External links

• La Daily News Article