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Today's Big Ten football links feature one of the conference's most prolific players of the early 2000s, Jim Harbaugh and Michigan's players preparing to go abroad to Rome and beyond.

Charles Rogers was a Michigan State star in the early 2000s who seemed destined for NFL stardom. But the wide receiver's career was plagued by injuries and an inability to stay on the field. There were flashes of his potential brilliance with the Detroit Lions, but Rogers eventually faded out of the picture.

The Lansing State Journal's Cody J. Tucker went to find Rogers:

He once lived in a million-dollar mansion in the Detroit suburbs with Mercedes-Benz and Cadillacs lining the driveway.