Rogers graduated from North Gwinnett High School in 1986 and from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science Degree and a certificate in Economics in 1991.

[11] During the 1990s Rogers worked for a number of metro Atlanta radio stations including as an anchor for WBHF.

[13] Rogers acquired sole ownership of Clarion Communications in December 2012 and immediately entered into a lease management agreement with Newstalk corporation to operate WYXC.

[16] Rogers said the media stories on the topic were "gutter politics", that the work was scripted, and that he was not a sports handicapper.

[21] A November 2007 poll among Republican primary voters in Georgia showed Thompson with a large lead over his G.O.P.

[22][23] Rogers first ran for office in 2002, winning a majority of the votes in a four-person primary for an open seat in the Georgia House of Representatives.

[24] The seat represented the citizens in the southwest corner of Cherokee County that encompasses Woodstock, Towne Lake, and parts of Acworth.

Rogers routed the early front runner and lawyer Craig Dowdy in the Republican primary, taking 81% of the vote.

Both measures, which were signed into law, are aimed at expanding digital learning options and offerings for Georgia students.

Senator Rogers was the author of Mattie's Call Act, a law which uses the Georgia statewide emergency alert system to help locate person's suffering from Alzheimer's disease or Dementia, who have gone missing.

[48] In October 2012, Rogers held an educational meeting about Agenda 21 for Senators and staffers, at the request of constituents, to discuss "how regionalism and public private partnerships are tearing down constitutionally limited self-government and free market economics."

A resolution denouncing Agenda 21 as a threat to private property rights was part of the 2012 Republican National Platform.

On December 4, Rogers announced he was stepping down from the Senate to take an executive position with Georgia Public Broadcasting.

[54] In leading the organization, he advocated for non-profit groups to clearly define their goals in order to increase their efficiency.