Athlete All-American
Rodgers, Jaqquizz
Jaqquizz Rodgers
- Honors:
- Football (2008), Football (2009)
In 2008, Jacquizz Rodgers had what was arguably the greatest impact of a freshman in the history of the program. Despite missing nearly all of the last three games of the season due to injury, he became the first freshman to be named as the Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year as well as the conference’s Freshman of the Year. With 1,253 yards, “Quizz” set the Pac-10 mark for rushing yards by a freshman. He was named USA Today, Rivals.com and CollegeFootballNews.com Player of the Week after rushing for 186 yards and two touchdowns in a victory over then No. 1 USC. Surpassing the 100-yard plateau seven times, he was named Pac-10 Player of the Week on three occasions en route to being named the Rivals.com Freshman of the Year, College Football News All-Freshman Team, Football Writers Association Freshman All-American, CBS Sports.com Freshman of the Year and Sporting News National Freshman of the Year. The Associated Press and Rivals.com selected Quizz as a third team All-American. He finished his career as one of three players in history to achieve 3,000 yards rushing and 1,000 yards receiving in only three years, joining Ryan Benjamin of Pacific (1990-92) and Reggie Bush of USC (2003-05). He was taken in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Atlanta Falcons.
