Charlie Rogers
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Rogers with the Dolphins in 2003 | |||||||||
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Running back Wide receiver Return specialist | ||||||||
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| Date of birth: | June 19, 1976 | ||||||||
| Place of birth: | Cliffwood, New Jersey | ||||||||
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| College: | Georgia Tech | ||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1999 / Round: 5 / Pick: 152 | ||||||||
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John Edward Rogers (born June 19, 1976) is a former American football running back and wide receiver in the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks (1999–2001), the Houston Texans (2002)*, the Buffalo Bills (2002) and the Miami Dolphins (2003).[1][2]
Rogers led the NFL in average punt return yardage in his rookie season, 1999. He also returned a kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown in the Seattle Seahawks playoff loss to the Miami Dolphins (the last points scored by a Seahawk in Kingdome history).[3]
Rogers was in the 2002 NFL Expansion Draft. He was drafted by the Houston Texans, 13th overall.[4][5]
Rogers went to college at the Georgia Institute of Technology and attended high school at Matawan Regional High School[6] and is now currently the head football coach for the Matawan Ayf midgets.
References
- ↑ (15 October 2015). On this date: Charlie Rogers runs into Seahawks’ record book, seahawks.com
- ↑ Cour, Jim (1 October 1999). Charlie Rogers has tacklers muttering to themselves, Moscow-Pullman Daily News (AP)
- ↑ Cour, Jim (10 January 200). Late slide ends Seahawks' season, Ocala Star-Banner (AP)
- ↑ Farnsworth, Clare (6 February 2002). Texans eye Seahawks' Rogers, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- ↑ Farnsworth, Clare (18 February 2002). Texans take Hawks returner, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- ↑ (13 November 1994). High School Football, The New York Times (brief reference to Rogers playing for Matawan)