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| Position | Offensive tackle | ||||
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| Born | (1981-08-17)August 17, 1981 (age 44) Oxnard, California, U.S. | ||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||
| Listed weight | 305 lb (138 kg) | ||||
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| High school | Oxnard | ||||
| College | USC | ||||
| NFL draft | 2004: 2nd round, 52nd overall pick | ||||
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Jacob Dwight Rogers (born August 17, 1981) is an American former professionalfootball player who was anoffensive tackle for theDallas Cowboys of theNational Football League (NFL). He playedcollege football for theUSC Trojans.
Rogers was born inOxnard, California. He attendedOxnard High School, where he started as aquarterback, before switching totight end as a sophomore.[1][2] He also playeddefensive end,linebacker andpunter. As a junior, he caught 17 passes for 201 yards and 5touchdowns.
As a seniortight end, he finished with 39 receptions for 412 yards (10.6 average yards) and 4touchdowns, despite missing the last 4 games with a separated shoulder. He also receivedSuper PrepAll-American and All-far west honors. He averaged 10 rebounds a game as a senior for thebasketball team.[3]
Rogers accepted a football scholarship from theUniversity of Southern California, where he played for head coachPete Carroll'sTrojans teams from 2000 to 2003.
As a true freshman, he missed most of the season due to a dislocated left shoulder. The next year, he came back as aredshirt freshman and was converted into anoffensive tackle, playing behindleft tackle Brent McCaffrey. He needed off-season surgery to repair a dislocated right shoulder.
As a sophomore, although he missed spring practice while rehabbing his shoulder, he earned the startingleft tackle job. As a senior in 2003, he was one of the nation's topoffensive tackles, theMorris Trophy winner, a first-teamAll-Pac-10 selection and a consensus first-teamAll-American.[4] He was a starter in the2003 Orange Bowl and the2004 Rose Bowl, blocking forCarson Palmer andMatt Leinart.
| Height | Weight | Arm length | Hand span | 40-yard dash | Bench press | |||||||
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| 6 ft6+1⁄8 in (1.98 m) | 307 lb (139 kg) | 33+1⁄4 in (0.84 m) | 9+1⁄2 in (0.24 m) | 5.30 s | 30 reps | |||||||
| All values fromNFL Combine | ||||||||||||
Rogers was selected by theDallas Cowboys in the second round (52nd overall) of the2004 NFL draft, after dropping because of his injury history.[5] As a rookie, he was moved toright tackle, but couldn't win the starting position over formerundrafted free agentsKurt Vollers andTorrin Tucker. He dressed but did not participate in six games, playing in only 2 games forspecial teams purposes. On January 11,2005, he had shoulder surgery.[6]
On August 9,2005, he suffered a shoulder injury a day after being named the starter atright tackle. On August 13,2005, he sprained the medial collateral ligament in his left knee and although the team felt he could still play the season with the injury (Mark Tuinei had a similar situation), Rogers decided to havemicrofracture surgery and be put on theinjured reserve list.[7] This disagreement did not sit well with the Cowboys, who made him rehab outside of the team's training facilities and eventually waived him on March 17,2006.
After a year out offootball, he signed with theDenver Broncos as afree agent on January 2,2007. Rogers was practicing with the first team atright tackle throughout training camp, until suffering another left knee injury. On August 21, he was waived before the season started.
Rogers began coaching at theUniversity of Mississippi in 2007, and also coached atCentral Connecticut State University in 2008 and 2009.[8] He currently works in a family business inVentura, California.[9]