NFL: Jacksonville Jaguars re-sign Australian DL Adam Gotsis
Australian defensive lineman Adam Gotsis has been re-signed by the National Football League’s Jacksonville Jaguars for his third season.
The 6’4″, 290 pound, 29-year-old Gotsis, a native of Melbourne, Australia, has spent the last two seasons with the Jaguars and the four seasons prior to that with the Denver Broncos after being drafted by Denver in the second round (63rd overall) of the 2016 NFL Draft.
In his two seasons with the Jaguars, 2020 and 2021, Gotsis appeared in 32 games and recorded 64 tackles, including 10 tackles for loss and 3.0 sacks.
He has played in a total of 89 games with both teams, making 45 starts and has tallied 173 total tackles, including 19 tackles for loss and 8.0 sacks. Gotsis has also recorded 16 passes defensed, three forced fumbles and three fumble recoveries.
His career totals with Denver (2016-19) include 109 tackles, 13 passes defensed, 5.0 sacks and two forced fumbles. In 2019, Gotsis played in nine games and recorded 16 tackles and two passes defensed prior to missing the last three games of the season with a knee injury. He appeared in all 16 games in 2018, making 12 starts and totaling 38 tackles, six passes defended, 3.0 sacks and two forced fumbles.
A four-year letterman at Georgia Tech with 37 starts, the 6-foot-4½-inch, 287-pound defensive lineman started his football career in Australia after discovering the game playing Madden football. Then he got hooked after watching the 2006 Rose Bowl between Texas and Southern California. He attended Kew High School in Australia and competed in Australian Rules Football for eight years before playing American Rules Football in the Gridiron Victoria for the Monash Warriors in Melbourne where he earned league MVP honors in 2010. He is the highest-drafted Australian-born player in NFL history.
The Melbourne, Australia native became the highest-drafted Australian-born player in NFL history when he was selected by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 2016 Draft.
