[1] Rogers accepted a football scholarship from the University of Southern California, where he played for head coach Pete Carroll's Trojans teams from 2000 to 2003.
As a sophomore, although he missed spring practice while rehabbing his shoulder, he earned the starting left tackle job.
[3] As a rookie, he was moved to right tackle, but couldn't win the starting position over former undrafted free agents Kurt Vollers and Torrin Tucker.
On August 13, 2005, he sprained the medial collateral ligament in his left knee and although the team felt he could still play the season with the injury (Mark Tuinei had a similar situation), Rogers decided to have microfracture surgery and be put on the injured reserve list.
[5] This disagreement did not sit well with the Cowboys, who made him rehab outside of the team's training facilities and eventually waived him on March 17, 2006.