Bradley Jennings

Bradley Jennings
No. 44
Position: Linebacker
Personal information
Date of birth: December 2, 1977
Place of birth: Miami, Florida
Height: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight: 255 lb (116 kg)
Career information
High school: Miami (FL) Carol City
College: Florida State
Undrafted: 2002
Career history
  • N/A
Career highlights and awards
  • All-ACC (2001)
  • The Sporting News 4th Team All-American (2001)

Bradley Fanelon Jennings (born December 2, 1977) is a former American football linebacker. He played college football at Florida State.

A native of Miami, Jennings attended Carol City High School, where he was a first-team Class 6A linebacker as a senior. Jennings led the Chiefs in tackles and had a dominating performance in the 1996 state championship win over Tampa Hillsborough.[1] He was rated as the No. 3 linebacker in Florida by the Florida Times-Union, and selected FSU over Auburn and West Virginia.

An All-Conference linebacker leading the Seminoles in tackles as a senior, Jennings was regarded as an NFL Draft prospect,[2][3] until just three weeks before the 2002 NFL Draft, on March 30, 2002, he was near-fatally shot twice in the right shoulder by a jittery carjacker.[4] He eventually went undrafted and never played in the NFL.[5]

Jennings settled in Jacksonville, Florida, and became an assistant football coach at Mandarin High School. In November 2009, he was charged with aggravated assault after a failed attempt to rob a Check 'n Go store in the Southside neighborhood of Jacksonville. Jennings claimed it was pre-Halloween prank.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Carol City Captures 6A Championship". Orlando Sentinel. December 22, 1996.
  2. ↑ http://det.scout.com/2/21707.html
  3. ↑ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/2002/draft/players/99671.html
  4. ↑ "Jennings Escapes Death, Focuses On NFL". Orlando Sentinel. April 18, 2002.
  5. ↑ "Second shot at dashed dream". St. Petersburg Times. April 22, 2004.
  6. ↑ "Mandarin High coach, former FSU linebacker charged with aggravated assault in pre-Halloween hold-up". Florida Times-Union. November 10, 2009.

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