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Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||||||
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Born: | Boise, Idaho, U.S. | December 19, 1974||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 212 lb (96 kg) | ||||||||||||
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High school: | Capital (Boise) | ||||||||||||
College: | Arizona State (1993–1996) | ||||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1997 / Round: 2 / Pick: 42 | ||||||||||||
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Jason Steven "Jake" Plummer (born December 19, 1974) is an American former professional football quarterback who played 10 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils. Plummer was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the second round of the 1997 NFL draft, spending six seasons with the Cardinals and then four with the Denver Broncos.
Since retiring from the field, he launched Umbo, a functional mushroom supplement company alongside former UFC Champion Rashad Evans.[1] He subsequently founded MyCOLove Farm in Fort Lupton, Colorado to better understand mushrooms and mycology.
His nickname, "Jake the Snake", is not in connection to professional wrestler, Jake "the Snake" Roberts.[2] His real first name is Jason, early in life he transferred to another school with 4 other Jasons. His teacher asked him to go by another name, thus he started to go by Jake. Coincidentally, Plummer and Roberts adopted both of the nickname as a tribute to The NFL player, former Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler, who was nicknamed "Snake."[3] Plummer has referenced the nickname has no connection to Wrestler, Roberts.