Dirk Koetter and Cecil Shorts III spent one season together with the Jacksonville Jaguars, the former finishing up a five-year run as the Jaguars' offensive coordinator and the latter just beginning his career as a fourth-round draft pick. Koetter left the next season to join another former Jaguar, Mike Smith, in Atlanta but he made sure to keep an eye on the young receiver out of Division III's Mount Union.
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"I followed him because of that, because of the fact that we were together that year," said Koetter, now in his second year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and his first as the team's head coach.