1. Jerricho Cotchery was born on June 16,1982 and is an American football coach and former wide receiver.
48 Facts About Jerricho Cotchery
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Jerricho Cotchery is the head football coach for Limestone University, a position he has held since 2024.
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Jerricho Cotchery played in the National Football League with the Carolina Panthers, New York Jets, and Pittsburgh Steelers from 2004 to 2015.
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Jerricho Cotchery played college football for North Carolina State University.
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Jerricho Cotchery played wide receiver and defensive back and was named to the All-State team after his junior and senior years.
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Jerricho Cotchery lettered in football and basketball in all four years of high school.
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Jerricho Cotchery tied the school record for most consecutive games with at least one reception in thirty-nine straight games.
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Jerricho Cotchery's 3,319 receiving yards are 33rd in NCAA history and his two hundred career receptions tie him for 42nd.
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Jerricho Cotchery was selected by the New York Jets in the fourth round with the 108th overall pick in the 2004 NFL draft.
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Jerricho Cotchery was the 16th of 33 wide receivers taken in the draft, but over his career would have more success than expected from his relatively late selection, second in receiving yards only to Larry Fitzgerald.
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In 2004, Jerricho Cotchery caught six passes for 60 yards in twelve games as the team's fifth receiver.
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Jerricho Cotchery entered the 2005 season as the New York Jets fourth string wide receiver.
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Jerricho Cotchery played in sixteen games, catching nineteen passes for 251 yards with no touchdowns.
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Jerricho Cotchery returned four kicks for 105 yards, a 26.3 yard average, and twenty-three punts for 182 yards, a 7.9 yard average.
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Jerricho Cotchery started for the Jets in week 1 against the Tennessee Titans.
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Jerricho Cotchery had six catches for 65 yards, and caught his first NFL touchdown from quarterback Chad Pennington.
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Jerricho Cotchery had six catches for 70 yards and a touchdown moving the Jets to only one game behind the Patriots for first place in the AFC East.
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Jerricho Cotchery ended the regular season with eighty-two catches and 961 yards.
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Jerricho Cotchery had 100 receiving yards and a touchdown in the Jets' Wild Card Round loss to the New England Patriots.
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Jerricho Cotchery signed a multi-year extension with the Jets on March 1,2007.
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On September 30,2007, Jerricho Cotchery had eight catches for 107 yards as the Jets lost to the Buffalo Bills.
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On Monday, November 26,2007, Jerricho Cotchery injured his right index finger during practice.
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The finger required surgery, but Jerricho Cotchery only missed one game.
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Jerricho Cotchery had eight receptions for 76 yards in the final game of the season, which resulted in an overtime win against the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Jerricho Cotchery finished the season with team highs in: receptions, yards, receiving touchdowns and had yards-per-catch average.
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In week 11, Jerricho Cotchery caught five passes for 87 yards in a win over division rivals the New England Patriots moving the Jets past the Patriots into first place in the AFC East.
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In week 15, Jerricho Cotchery had a touchdown catch in a win against the Buffalo Bills snapping the Jets' two-game losing streak.
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Jerricho Cotchery ended the season with seventy-one receptions for 858 yards, an average of 12.1 yards per catch average and five touchdowns.
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In Week 1, Jerricho Cotchery had six catches for 90 yards in the Jets win over the Houston Texans.
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In week 3, Jerricho Cotchery had eight receptions for 108 yards, as well as his first touchdown reception of the season in a win over the Tennessee Titans.
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The Jets defeated the Cincinnati Bengals in the wildcard round, with Jerricho Cotchery catching six passes for 67 yards.
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Jerricho Cotchery was positioned as third-choice wide receiver, behind Holmes and Braylon Edwards.
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Jerricho Cotchery hurt his groin that week and missed the following two games.
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Jerricho Cotchery finished the 2010 season with forty-one catches for 433 yards with two touchdowns while playing in 14 games.
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Jerricho Cotchery started five games, the lowest number since the 2005 season.
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Jerricho Cotchery was released by the Jets on August 4,2011.
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Jerricho Cotchery agreed to a one-year deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers on August 11,2011, after he had met with the team at training camp the previous week.
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On March 20,2014, Jerricho Cotchery agreed to a two-year deal with the Carolina Panthers.
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Jerricho Cotchery finished the 2014 season with 48 receptions for 580 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown in 15 games and 13 starts.
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Jerricho Cotchery recorded 39 receptions for 485 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns.
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Jerricho Cotchery's third was on a pass that was either going to be a touchdown or would set up Carolina inside the five yard line, the drive ultimately ending in a missed field goal.
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In 2017, Jerricho Cotchery joined the Carolina Panthers coaching staff as the assistant wide receivers coach.
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Jerricho Cotchery was not retained by Matt Rhule in 2020.
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Jerricho Cotchery grew up in the Norwood neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama.
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Jerricho Cotchery was the second youngest of thirteen children in a blended family with siblings separated in age by as much as twenty-five years.
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Jerricho Cotchery played basketball and football at Phillips High School.
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Jerricho Cotchery was born with six fingers on his left hand; one was removed.
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Jerricho Cotchery married his wife, Mercedes, a month after being selected by the Jets in 2004.