Cooper Carlisle
Cooper Morrison Carlisle is an American former professional football player who was a guard for 13 seasons in the National Football League. Carlisle played college football for the Gators football|Florida Gators], where he was a member of a national championship team. He was selected by the Denver Broncos in the fourth round of the 2000 NFL draft. He played for the Broncos and Oakland Raiders of the NFL.
Early life
Carlisle was born in Greenville, Mississippi, in 1977. He attended McComb High School in McComb, Mississippi, and he played for the McComb Tigers high school football team. Carlisle graduated from McComb in 1995 and, according to the Enterprise Journal, was the most sought-after college football recruit that year. He was a first-team Mississippi all-state selection as a senior, and received high school All-America honors from Blue Chip Illustrated and USA Today.College career
Carlisle accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Steve Spurrier's Gators teams from football team|1996] to 1999. The Gators coaching staff red-shirted Carlisle in 1995, but he was a letterman on the 1996 Gators' Bowl Alliance national championship team that defeated the Florida State Seminoles 52–20 in the Sugar Bowl. As a senior in 1999, he was a team captain and a first-team All-Southeastern Conference selection.Carlisle was recognized as an SEC Academic Honor Roll honoree all four years, and graduated from Florida with a bachelor's degree in finance in 1999.