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Rob Meier

Rob Meier

Pro Highlights:

Plays valuable role along the defensive line with the ability to play both tackle and end … Has played in 107 games in seven seasons with 25 starts … Career totals include 224 tackles (161 solo), 15.5 sacks, three forced fumbles and three fumbles recovered … Eighteen of his 25 career starts have been at DE … One of nine players in team history to play in 100 games … Played in all 16 games in 2006 for the sixth time in seven years … Ranked second on the team in 2006 with five sacks, third-most among AFC defensive tackles … Led all AFC defensive tackles with a career-high six sacks in 2005 and ranked third in the NFL … Had streak of four consecutive games with a sack in 2005 … Started eight games at defensive end before being placed on injured reserve with a broken leg in 2004 … Ended streak of 75 consecutive games played since being drafted in 2000 … Seventh-round draft choice in 2000 NFL draft … One of two foreign born players on the roster (Reggie Williams, Landstuhl, Germany) …

Player Profile

2006: Started a career-high eight of 16 games and registered 45 tackles (37 solo), five sacks and one fumble recovery … Started three games at LDE after the opening day injury to Reggie Hayward and moved back inside and started at DT for five games with Marcus Stroud out with an injury … Started at LDE on Sept. 18 vs. Pittsburgh and recorded two solo tackles and one quarterback pressure … Started at RDT in place of injured Marcus Stroud on Oct. 8 vs. New York Jets and had five solo tackles, one for a loss and one sack of Chad Pennington … Started at RDT at Philadelphia on Oct. 29 and made seven tackles, splitting a sack of Donovan McNabb with Bobby McCray … On Nov. 5 vs. Tennessee, started at LDT and recorded three tackles and split a sack of Vince Young with Tony McDaniel … Registered sack of Joey Harrington on Dec. 3 at Miami … Had three solo tackles, one sack and two quarterback pressures on Dec. 17 at Tennessee … Saw action as reserve DT on Dec. 31 at Kansas City and finished with two solo tackles and one fumble recovery.

College Highlights:

Started 25 games (including the last 23 straight) in four seasons, never missing a game … Played both defensive end and defensive tackle, making 133 career tackles … Started all 12 games as a senior and earned All-Pac 10 Conference honorable mention … Graduated with a degree in business.

Presonal Info:

Single … Lives in Jacksonville … Played defensive end and tight end at Sentinel High in West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada … Also played basketball and rugby … Offensive Most Valuable Player and team captain as a senior in football and captain of basketball team … All-Provincial League selection as a senior, making 58 tackles … Also played club hockey … Supports the Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Playbooks reading initiative … Attends numerous team-related fundraisers … Represented Jaguars during Super XXXVIII in San Diego for annual Taste of the NFL hunger-relief fundraiser … Full name: Robert Jack Daniel Meier.

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