1. Joshua Ballinger Lippincott Rosen was born on February 10,1997 and is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League for four seasons.
46 Facts About Josh Rosen
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Josh Rosen was selected 10th overall in the 2018 NFL draft by the Arizona Cardinals, and served as the team's starter during the majority of his rookie season.
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Josh Rosen was traded to the Miami Dolphins the following season and released after one year.
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Josh Rosen spent his next two seasons as a backup for the San Francisco 49ers and Atlanta Falcons.
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Josh Rosen was born on February 10,1997, in Torrance, California, to Charles Josh Rosen, an orthopedic spine surgeon, and Liz Lippincott, a former journalist.
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Josh Rosen's father is Jewish and was a nationally ranked ice skater who almost qualified for the Winter Olympics in the 1970s, and his mother is a Quaker, who was the captain of the Princeton lacrosse team.
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Josh Rosen is the maternal great-great-great-grandson of Joseph Wharton, the co-founder of Bethlehem Steel and founder of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which was named in his honor, and a descendant of Thomas Cornell, progenitor of the Cornell family.
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Josh Rosen grew up playing tennis; at age 12 he was the No 1-ranked player for his age group in Southern California, and ranked nationally in the top-50.
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Josh Rosen was introduced to football in elementary school by a friend's father who was a youth coach.
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Right before high school, Josh Rosen switched from tennis to football.
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Josh Rosen attended St John Bosco High School, a Catholic high school in Bellflower, California, where he had a 4.3 GPA.
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Josh Rosen was named a 2014 USA Today High School All-American.
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Josh Rosen was named the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame's Male High School Athlete of the Year.
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Josh Rosen verbally committed to the University of California, Los Angeles in March 2014 before officially signing in September.
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An economics major, Josh Rosen began taking classes at UCLA in January 2015; he enrolled early so he could take part in spring practice.
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Josh Rosen was UCLA's best quarterback during the spring, and he continued to compete during summer camp to be the team's starting quarterback as a true freshman.
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Josh Rosen beat out Jerry Neuheisel, who had three years of experience in offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone's up-tempo spread offense, which was similar to the offense Rosen ran in high school.
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Josh Rosen was honored as the Walter Camp Offensive Player of the Week.
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Josh Rosen was named the Pac-12 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year and earned Freshman All-American honors from USA Today, Sporting News, and Football Writers Association of America.
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Josh Rosen was named The Sporting News' Freshman of the Year, Pac-12 Conference Offensive Freshman of the Year, and Pac-12 Newcomer of the Year.
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In 2016, Josh Rosen was injured in an October 8 loss to Arizona State Sun Devils, when he threw for a then-career high 400 yards.
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Josh Rosen missed the rest of the season with a shoulder injury.
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Josh Rosen had surgery on his throwing shoulder to repair soft-tissue damage.
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Josh Rosen reached 2,000 yards for the season in five games, the fastest of any player in UCLA history.
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Josh Rosen completed 12 of 21 passes for 93 yards and a touchdown, the first passing score the Huskies had surrendered in the Pac-12 all season.
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Josh Rosen suffered three sacks, including one late in the second quarter when he was slow to get up after being thrown to the ground.
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Josh Rosen was retroactively credited with a 39-yard pass to Eldridge Massington that was originally ruled a run against Arizona State.
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Josh Rosen missed the Cactus Bowl after doctors did not clear him to play.
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On January 3,2018, Josh Rosen announced his intentions to enter the 2018 NFL draft.
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Josh Rosen was the fourth of five quarterbacks chosen in the first round that year.
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On May 10,2018, Josh Rosen signed a four-year deal worth $17.84 million with an $11 million signing bonus.
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Josh Rosen helped the Cardinals earn their first win the following week against the San Francisco 49ers, when he completed 10 of 25 passes for 170 yards, including a 75-yard touchdown pass to fellow rookie, receiver Christian Kirk.
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Josh Rosen praised his teammates during the season, and resisted criticizing the team's unimaginative playcalling or weak offensive line and receiving corps.
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Arizona fired Wilks after the season and replaced him with Kliff Kingsbury, who declared that "Josh Rosen is our guy".
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Josh Weinfuss of ESPN wrote that Rosen would have most likely been traded even if he had "put up big numbers" as a rookie.
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Josh Rosen's touchdown pass was his first and only as a member of the Dolphins.
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Josh Rosen only appeared in one other game in 2019, serving as Fitzpatrick's backup for the rest of the season.
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On September 8,2020, Josh Rosen signed onto the practice squad of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Josh Rosen was active for the 49ers for their final two games, but did not see any action.
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McCarron, Josh Rosen signed with the Atlanta Falcons on August 24,2021.
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Josh Rosen was named the second-string option for the season opener behind incumbent starter Matt Ryan and ahead of undrafted rookie Feleipe Franks.
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Josh Rosen made his season debut during Week 2 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers when he replaced Ryan for the Falcons' final drive.
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In Week 10 against the Dallas Cowboys, Josh Rosen again relieved a struggling Ryan during the third quarter.
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Josh Rosen completed one of two pass attempts before throwing an interception to linebacker Kyle Van Noy that was returned for a touchdown.
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On December 20,2022, Josh Rosen was signed to the Minnesota Vikings practice squad.
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The Cardinals, Dolphins, and 49ers each spent a first-round draft pick on a quarterback the year after playing Josh Rosen before cutting or trading him.