Kassim Osgood

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Kassim Osgood
Date of birth	May 20, 1980 (age 26)
Place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts
Position(s)	Wide receiver
College	San Diego State
Pro Bowls	2007
Statistics	CBS.com DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
2003-present	San Diego Chargers

Kassim Osgood (born May 20, 1980) is a National Football League wide receiver and top special teams player for the San Diego Chargers out of San Diego State.

Osgood was born May 20, 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Salinas, California, where he graduated from North Salinas High School.

While wearing the #1 for San Diego State, Kassim was named First-team All-Mountain West Conference in 2002 when he ranked second in the nation with 108 catches and fourth in nation with average of 119.4 yards per game for total of 1,552 yards. He and teammate J.R. Tolver (Dallas Cowboys) combined to set NCAA records for receiving yards in a season by teammates with 3,337 yards and catches with 236. Kassim was also a Division I-AA All-America at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo before transferring to play for the San Diego State Aztecs. While at Cal Poly-SLO, he led the nation in receiving yards as sophomore while ranking second in receiving yards per game and sixth in catches per game. Kassim set an NCAA I-AA record with 376 yards receiving in a game against Northern Iowa. Kassim earned his degree in Sociology.

[edit] NFL Career

Osgood has typically been the fourth or fifth receiver for the Chargers during his career. He saw some playing time in his first two seasons with the team, playing in all 16 games and catching two touchdowns each season. In 2004, he led the Chargers' wide receivers with a 20.5 yard average per catch. But, his time on the field has decreased since after the 2004 season and since then he has become primarily a special teams player. With TE Antonio Gates as the top target, Keenan McCardell and Eric Parker as the #1 and #2 WRs on the depth chart and the development of Vincent Jackson and Malcolm Floyd (both similar receivers to Osgood), Osgood's opportunities have become limited.

Prior to the 2006 season, he signed a four-year extension and assumed he would become a bigger part of the offense, but that did not happen. Osgood expressed frustration with his role in San Diego and remarked "I'm going to be a great receiver some day – probably not in San Diego."^[1]

In December 2006, Osgood was named as a member of the 2007 AFC Pro Bowl squad as the special teams representative.