Cooper Carlisle

Cooper Morrison Carlisle (born August 11, 1977) is an American former professional football player who was a guard for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Carlisle played college football for the 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 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. 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. and he played for the Broncos for seven seasons from to . Carlisle became a regular starter in , and started in his last thirty regular season games for the Broncos.