CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
• Played in 13 games, including four starts in 2005 after spending the 2004 season on Injured Reserve.
SEASON BY SEASON
2005 (PHI) Started four of the final six regular-season games. … Made his first career start at LG vs. GB in Week 12. … Started final two games at LG.
2004 (PHI) Placed on IR, 9/8.
CAREER TRANSACTIONS
• Signed a reserve-future contract with the Jets on 1/22/07.
• Waived by PHI on 8/29/06.
• Placed on injured reserve on 9/8/04.
• Selected by the Eagles in the seventh round (227th overall) of the 2004 NFL Draft.
BEFORE THE NFL
• Started 43 games for Ohio State and was a member of the Buckeyes' 2002 national championship team.
• Started next to Jets teammate Nick Mangold for Ohio State in 2003.
• All-Big Ten second-team selection as a senior and a Freshman All-American as selected by The Sporting News.
• Competed in football and track at Shaker Heights HS (OH).
• Was all-state in football as a senior, when he was a teammate of current 49ers CB Nate Clements.
• Holds his HS record for the longest discus throw (169 feet).
OFF THE FIELD
• Majored in African American studies at Ohio State.
• Wife, Nikki.
• Parents are ministers at the Freedom Convent Center in Cleveland.
• As a HS senior, worked on bike patrol for the local police department.
• Joined the New Jersey Department of Agriculture in honoring Brielle (NJ) Elementary School on 5/16/07 for winning the Eat Right, Move More contest.