The injury ended his rookie season before it began, but Brooks has high hopes tor 1998. At 6-foot5 and 215 pounds, brooks is tall, lean and muscular, a prototype of the modern NFL receiver. During his JMU career, the Hampton native set a single season school record for touchdown catches with 14 in 1996 and twice tied Clark's single game school record of three touchdown catches. He was also a regular in right field for three JMU baseball teams, including the 1995 squad that won the CAA regular season title and advanced to the NCAA South regional. At one time, brooks thought baseball was his ticket to life as a professional athlete, but he is proud to be a Dallas Cowboy and hoping to help bring the team back to prominence after a difficult 1997 season.
Every team has players that have made mistakes off the field.
Whenever I have friends visit me, I make sure I introduce them to my teammates, and everyone is taken aback by how real and down to earth they are. I am excited to be playing here. Of the transition from college to pro football, Perry comments that the biggest difference is in the attitude of the players and coaches. It's a job now. You see guys that get cut and you might not know who is going to be active from one week to the next.