Fred Rouse (gridiron football)
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Tallahassee, Florida
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| Position | Wide receiver |
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| Born | December 17, 1985 Tallahassee, Florida |
| Listed height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Listed weight | 200 lb (91 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Lincoln (Tallahassee, Florida) |
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| NFL draft | 2011: undrafted |
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* Offseason and/or practice squad member only | |
| Stats at CFL.ca (archive) | |
Fred Rouse (born December 17, 1985) is a former professional gridiron football wide receiver. He was originally signed by the Omaha Nighthawks of the UFL in 2011.
Rouse attended Lincoln High School in his home town of Tallahassee, Florida, and was teammates with Antonio Cromartie until his sophomore year. As a senior, he had 608 receiving yards and eight touchdowns, for an average of 20.1 yards per catch. He was a Parade All-American and invited to the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, where he had five receptions for 29 yards and 55 yards in punt returns.
Regarded as a five-star recruit by Rivals.com, Rouse was ranked as the No. 2 wide receiver prospect in his class behind only Patrick Turner.[1] He once declared that he felt ready to jump straight from the high school level to the NFL.[2] He was heavily recruited out of high school and signed with the Florida State Seminoles, over scholarship offers from Alabama, Texas, Miami (FL), and Florida.[3]
College career
During Rouse's freshman NCAA season, he was in the Seminoles' starting lineup at the 2006 Orange Bowl against Penn State and finished the season with 6 receptions for 114 yards and one touchdown as a true freshman.[4] Rouse then transferred to the University of Texas-El Paso, where he sat out the 2006 season, due to NCAA transfer rules. As a redshirt sophomore at UTEP in 2007, he played in 10 games and averaged 15.2 yards a catch with 2 touchdowns.[5] Rouse later transferred to Concordia College, Selma, an unaffiliated institution, for his junior and senior seasons.[6][7]