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| Position: | Placekicker | ||||||||||
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| Born: | June 18, 1979 Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 218 lb (99 kg) | ||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||
| High school: | Mandarin (Jacksonville) | ||||||||||
| College: | Florida | ||||||||||
| NFL draft: | 2002 / round: 4 / pick: 102 | ||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||
| * Offseason and/or practice squad member only | |||||||||||
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Jeffrey Robin Chandler (born June 18, 1979) is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker for three seasons in the National Football League (NFL) during the early 2000s. Chandler played college football for the Florida Gators, becoming their all-time leading scorer with 368 points. Thereafter, he played in the NFL for the San Francisco 49ers, Carolina Panthers and Washington Redskins.
Chandler was born in Jacksonville, Florida. [1] He attended Mandarin High School in Jacksonville, [2] where he played kicker and wide receiver for the Mandarin Mustangs high school football team. [3] Chandler was also a standout letterman in soccer and tennis. [3]
Chandler attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he joined coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football program as a walk-on in 1997, kicking one extra point and later being granted a redshirt for the remainder of the 1997 season. [3] He subsequently played for the Gators from 1998 to 2001, [4] and was rewarded with an athletic scholarship after the 1998 season. [3] He successfully completed sixty-seven of eighty field goal attempts in his career, and 167 of 180 attempted extra points after touchdowns (PATs). [4]
Chandler was the Gators' all-time career leader in field goals completed, first in PATs made, and second in field goal percentage (83.8 percent). [4] He ranks second in Southeastern Conference (SEC) history in scoring with 368 points, fourth in league history in field goals made and second in field goal percentage. [3] He kicked his career long field goal of fifty-four yards in the Gators' 34–23 victory of the rival Georgia Bulldogs on October 28, 2000. [3]
Chandler was a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award honoring the nation's top collegiate placekicker in 1999 and 2000; was a second-team All-American in 1999; a first-team All-SEC selection in 1999 and 2001; and was chosen by his teammates as the Gators' most valuable player for the 1999 season. [4] He graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor's degree in telecommunications in December 2001. [3]
The San Francisco 49ers chose Chandler in the fourth round (102nd pick overall) of the 2002 NFL draft, and he played for the 49ers from 2002 to 2003. [5] [6] Chandler was released by the 49ers after the 2003 season, and he appeared on the regular season roster of two different teams in 2004: the Carolina Panthers and the Washington Redskins. [5] He played in thirteen games during his four-year NFL career, kicking nineteen field goals on twenty-seven attempts (70.4 percent), with a career long of forty-nine yards. [1]
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