Jeffrey David Thomason is a former American football

American football

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 tight end

Tight end

The tight end is a position in American football on the offense. The tight end is often seen as a hybrid position with the characteristics and roles of both an offensive lineman and a wide receiver. Like offensive linemen, they are usually lined up on the offensive line and are large enough to be...

 and is currently a construction worker. He played college football

College football

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 at Oregon

University of Oregon

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, and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Cincinnati Bengals

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 in 1992. He played for the Bengals, the Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers

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, and the Philadelphia Eagles

Philadelphia Eagles

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, primarily as a reserve player, for ten years. He retired in 2002, but returned to the spotlight before Super Bowl XXXIX

Super Bowl XXXIX

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 when he was re-signed by the Eagles three years after his retirement in order to temporarily replace injured tight end Chad Lewis

Chad Lewis

Chad Wayne Lewis is a former American football tight end in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and St. Louis Rams.-Early life:...

. After seeing a few plays of action during the Eagles loss in that game, he retired once again that summer, returning to the construction business he had been working at when he was re-signed.