“We’re talking about basketball, football and track together.

“I said some things, I was hot.”In 2017, the Lansing State Journal found Rogers in Fort Myers, Florida, where he was working at Uptown Motors, an auto repair shop.

“He had the total package as a premier wide receiver with size, speed and range, topped with an awesome competitive spirit, yet he was humble off the field," Don Treadwell, Rogers' position coach at MSU, said in a statement. “That will never change. He said he smoked marijuana every day. He was just a blessed athlete that could do it all.”Woodley, who went on to play linebacker at Michigan and spent eight years in the NFL, was a freshman at Saginaw when Rogers was a senior.

"I was just talking about him yesterday," said Van Dyke, who was at MSU from 1998 to 2001. The things he showed me, positively and negatively, had an effect on my life. The only time he served for the threat and a handful of other misdemeanor charges was a short stint in a rehab facility.“I have a problem with that,” he said, regretfully, in 2017.

“How I will remember him is different than how everybody else will remember him,” Matt Millen, the former Detroit Lions general manager, said Monday. I wish I could have done more. (THECOUNT) — Charles Rogers, #2 overall pick in the 2003 NFL Draft, has died, multiple outlets and former teammates confirmed Monday morning.He was 38. Matt Millen remembers Charles Rogers for his big heart, not as draft bust. Durrett calls him the best athlete to hail from the city, which produced the likes of Draymond Green and LaMarr Woodley.

That was before he became better known for squandering that potential. Rogers had a record-setting career at Michigan State before the Lions selected him with the second pick of the 2003 NFL draft.
He caught 27 touchdown passes in just two seasons for the Spartans, a school record. "It should be me being like, ‘Man, I threw it to Charles Rogers.’ He never failed to recognize everyone. Because I had got hurt when Jeff (Smoker) came in and did a good job. He won the Biletnikoff Award in 2002 as the nation's best wide receiver. “From Saginaw, to East Lansing, to Detroit, Charles’ connection to the state of Michigan and its football community was felt by many during the course of his life. From Saginaw, to East Lansing, to Detroit, Charles' connection to the state of Michigan and its football community was felt by many during the course of his life. The 6-foot-3, 220-pounder had just 36 catches for 440 yards with four touchdowns in 15 games before he left the league in 2005. The two played together for two years in East Lansing. Rogers' former teammates and coaches said he also had been battling cancer.

Rogers' mother, Cathy, was with her son at a Florida hospital when he died but had no further comment when contacted by the Free Press. MSU was losing Plaxico Burress, and Van Dyke believed Rogers "was my guy" to replace Burress as his top target. The five-star high school recruit played for Bobby Williams at MSU from 2000 to 2002. He said he was trying to turn his life around. He was 38.Chris Baker, Rogers’s former Michigan State teammate, said on Twitter that he had spoken with Rogers’s mother, who confirmed his passing. "It’s terrible," Van Dyke said. Born May 23, 1981, Rogers starred at Saginaw High, where he won a state football championship in 1999, and was an All-American at Michigan State before he was taken by the Lions as the No. He played just 15 games in three seasons for the Lions, catching 36 passes for 440 yards and four touchdowns.

The obituary was featured in Atlanta Journal-Constitution on February 16, 2019. He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans, earning unanimous All-American honors and recognition as the top college wide receiver in the country. I made it because Charles Rogers motivated me.”Rogers said in 2017 that he has eight children — four boys and four girls.“The Spartan football family is deeply saddened to learn the news of Charles Rogers passing away," MSU coach Mark Dantonio said in a statement. "

LANSING, MI. Charles Rogers was an energetic star with an infectious smile and breathtaking talent, but it was never enough to squash the turbulence in his life.

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