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Bradley Jennings

American football player (born 1977)

American football player

Bradley Jennings
No. 44
Position:	Linebacker
Personal information
Born:	(1977-12-02) December 2, 1977 (age 46) Miami, Florida, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight:	255 lb (116 kg)
Career information
High school:	Miami (FL) Carol City
College:	Florida State
Undrafted:	2002
Career history
N/A

Career highlights and awards
BCS national champion (1999) All-ACC (2001) The Sporting News 4th Team All-American (2001)

Bradley Fanelon Jennings (born December 2, 1977) is a former American football linebacker. He played college football at Florida State.

A native of Miami, Jennings attended Carol City High School, where he was a first-team Class 6A linebacker as a senior. Jennings led the Chiefs in tackles and had a dominating performance in the 1996 state championship win over Tampa Hillsborough.^[1] He was rated as the No. 3 linebacker in Florida by the Florida Times-Union, and selected FSU over Auburn and West Virginia.

An All-Conference linebacker leading the Seminoles in tackles as a senior, Jennings was regarded as an NFL Draft prospect,^[2]^[3] until just three weeks before the 2002 NFL Draft, on March 30, 2002, he was near-fatally shot twice in the right shoulder by a jittery carjacker.^[4] He eventually went undrafted and never played in the NFL.^[5]

Jennings settled in Jacksonville, Florida, and became an assistant football coach at Mandarin High School. In November 2009, he was charged with aggravated assault after a failed attempt to rob a Check 'n Go store in the Southside neighborhood of Jacksonville. Jennings claimed it was pre-Halloween prank.^[6] Jennings now holds the linebacker coaching spot at Sandalwood High School where his son Branden attends.

References

^ "Carol City Captures 6A Championship". Orlando Sentinel. December 22, 1996.
^ "Updated Top 50 Seniors for 2002 NFL Draft - Detroit - Scout". Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
^ "CNNSI.com - Bradley Jennings - -". Archived from the original on 2007-08-08. Retrieved 2013-10-10.
^ "Jennings Escapes Death, Focuses On NFL". Orlando Sentinel. April 18, 2002.
^ "Second shot at dashed dream". St. Petersburg Times. April 22, 2004.
^ "Mandarin High coach, former FSU linebacker charged with aggravated assault in pre-Halloween hold-up". Florida Times-Union. November 10, 2009.