16 Facts About Jarryd Roughead

Jarryd Roughead was born on 23 January 1987 and is an Australian rules football coach and former player.

Jarryd Roughead was formerly an assistant coach with the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League.

Jarryd Roughead is friends with Australian basketball players Joe Ingles and Patty Mills.

Jarryd Roughead was recruited to Hawthorn with the 2nd overall pick in the 2004 AFL draft.

Jarryd Roughead collected 20 disposals in a 41-point loss against the Brisbane Lions.

In 2008, he played in his first AFL Grand Final, despite his struggles to collect the ball at times, Jarryd Roughead finished the match with a respectable 2 goals against Geelong.

Jarryd Roughead was stretchered off the ground and was ruled out for the remainder of the 2011 AFL season.

Jarryd Roughead spent the majority of the 2012 AFL season sharing the ruck duties with David Hale.

In 2013, Jarryd Roughead was awarded the Coleman Medal for being the leading goalkicker after kicking 68 goals at the completion of the home and away season.

Jarryd Roughead managed to achieve this whilst spending considerable time in the ruck as well as in the midfield alongside his rucking partners.

Jarryd Roughead kicked two goals in Hawthorn's qualifying final against Sydney and another two goals in the AFL Grand Final against Fremantle which resulted in Hawthorn's second premiership of the century.

On 20 January 2017, Jarryd Roughead was named the captain of Hawthorn.

On 12 August 2019, Jarryd Roughead announced he would retire from AFL football at the conclusion of the 2019 season.

Midway through the 2015 season, Jarryd Roughead was ruled out for three weeks after it was revealed he had a melanoma removed from his lip.

On May 17,2016, Jarryd Roughead was diagnosed with a recurrence of Melanoma and was sidelined indefinitely.

Jarryd Roughead has four small spots on his lung and a biopsy confirmed a diagnosis of melanoma.