One on One with Amari Rodgers

 

One on One with Amari Rodgers

 

Son of former Tennessee quarterback, Tee Martin, who lead the Volunteers to the 1998 National Championship, Amari Rodgers made a huge impact on the Tiger offense as a first-year freshman and is having a spectacular sophomore season. During his freshman year, Rodgers had 19 receptions for 123 yards in 239 snaps over 14 games. He also had a team-tying-high three receptions for 19 yards and a seven-yard punt return against Kent State.

   

 

            A Knoxville, Tennessee native, Rodgers played in the Under Armour All-American Game in Orlando, Florida and was a national top-100 prospect by ESPN and was rated 104 by 247 Sports, seventh in the state and No.15 at the wide receiver position.

 

 

Q – Amari, you have become a huge leader on this Clemson Offense. How does it feel to be considered a leader?

Rodgers –  It makes me feel really good that the team can look to me as a leader even though I am young, I just turned 19 yesterday. That really shows my maturity coming in as a young guy. I feel great about that.

 

Q – Were you a  punt returner in High School? Would you say that is your forte?

Rodgers – I did do punt returns in High School, but nobody really kicked it to me as much. But I never really got the chance to do it. Whenever I got here and they put me back there, I was like yeah, this could be my side thing cause last year I was back up to Ray-Ray too, so that was another thing that I learned from him was how to get north and things like that. Just another thing I learned from the older guys and taking it into this year and it is paying off.

 

Q – Being from Tennessee, what was it like getting acclimated to Clemson as an out of state student? Was it easier for you coming in with Tee Higgins?

Rodgers – It was definitely easier coming in with someone like Tee because Knoxville is not that big of a city and Clemson is not either. So it really did not take that much to get acclimated to that part, it was just a different area to get acclimated to and I feel like having someone from the same area as me helped out definitely.

 

 

 

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