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Former Hillsboro quarterback credits football for life lessons 



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Chris Rodgers (Photo: Submitted)



Former Hillsboro quarterback Chris Rodgers was back at the school recently for the annual Buddy's Burros Reunion Dinner in honor of former coach Buddy Brown.


Rodgers is believed to be the only deaf starting quarterback to ever play in Metro.


He went on to play football and baseball at Gallaudet University and remained in Washington D.C., where he went to work for the U.S. Department of Labor.


In 2002 Rodgers moved back to Nashville, became a construction contractor and then started his own company, C. Rodgers Construction, in Hendersonville.


"So much of what coach Brown taught me on the football field helped to make me successful in my private life," Rodgers said. "He taught me some hard life lessons."


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