Jay Rodgers enters his third season with the club and his first as defensive quality control coach after spending his first two years with the Broncos as a coaching assistant.
Rodgers, who worked for nine seasons at the collegiate level before joining the Broncos, was hired by Denver on Jan. 21, 2009.
A former college quarterback, Rodgers spent the last two seasons with Denver working primarily with its defense. He coached on the other side of the ball before joining the Broncos, instructing Iowa State’s wide receivers from 2007-08 after coaching quarterbacks at Stephen F. Austin University (2005-06) and Missouri State University (2004).
Jay Rodgers enters his third season with the club and his first as defensive quality control coach after spending his first two years with the Broncos as a coaching assistant.
Rodgers, who worked for nine seasons at the collegiate level before joining the Broncos, was hired by Denver on Jan. 21, 2009.
A former college quarterback, Rodgers spent the last two seasons with Denver working primarily with its defense. He coached on the other side of the ball before joining the Broncos, instructing Iowa State’s wide receivers from 2007-08 after coaching quarterbacks at Stephen F. Austin University (2005-06) and Missouri State University (2004).
He served as passing game coordinator at Dodge City Community College in Kansas during the 2003 season following stints at Louisiana State University (2001-02) and Ohio State University (2000).
In his first NFL season with the Broncos in 2009, Rodgers was a coaching assistant for a defensive staff that helped the club rank third in the league against the pass (186.3 ypg.) while placing seventh in both yards per game (315.0) and yards per play (5.0). The Broncos’ defense featured three Pro Bowl selections, including outside linebacker/defensive end Elvis Dumervil, who became the first player in franchise history to lead the league in sacks with a club-record 17.
Rodgers instructed Iowa State’s all-time leading wide receiver, Todd Blythe, during his senior campaign in 2007 and helped him to honorable mention All-Big 12 Conference accolades after he posted a careerhigh 52 catches (779 yds., 5 TDs) that year. Blythe signed a free-agent contract with the New Orleans Saints following the completion of his collegiate career.
During two seasons as Stephen F. Austin’s quarterbacks coach (2005-06), Rodgers worked with one of the best passing offenses in the country. The school ranked 12th nationally with a Southland Conference-best 283.5 passing yards per game average in 2005, and quarterback Zeke Dixon accounted for 20 touchdown passes and 2,407 passing yards that year.
Rodgers coached quarterbacks at Missouri State in 2004 after serving as passing game coordinator at Dodge City Community College in 2003 and helping the school rank eighth nationally in passing yards per game.
He spent two years as a graduate assistant at LSU from 2001-02, seasons in which the Tigers won the Southeastern Conference’s Western Division. He was a defensive graduate assistant in 2002, working primarily with the defensive backs, and was an offensive graduate assistant on LSU’s 2001 squad that won the SEC title and the Sugar Bowl.
Rodgers’ coaching career began in 2000 as a recruiting intern at Ohio State.
In college, Rodgers played quarterback for three seasons at Indiana University, starting 15 games, before transferring to Missouri State for his senior season. In his one season with the Bears in 1999, he was voted team captain and MVP after setting several school single-season passing records.
A native of Austin, Texas, Rodgers attended Austin Westlake High School and received a bachelor’s degree from Indiana in 2000. His younger brother, Jeff, is entering his first season as the Broncos’ special teams coordinator. Rodgers, who was born on Aug. 29, 1976, in St. Paul, Minn., is married to Melissa, and they have a daughter, Avery, and a son, Rock.
