Quentin Jammer Quentin Tremaine Jammer ( born June 19 , 1979 ) is an American football cornerback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League ( NFL ) . He played college football for the University of Texas , and earned All - American honors . He was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the first round of the 2002 NFL Draft and he played for them for eleven seasons . Early years . Jammer was born in Bay City , Texas , and attended Angleton High School . In high school football , he was a two - time all - district safety , cornerback , linebacker , wide receiver and quarterback as a senior , and was the district ' s defensive most valuable player . He also won three letters in track and field , and participated in the long jump , 100 - meter dash , and the 200 - meter dash . College career . Jammer attended the University of Texas at Austin , and played for coach Mack Brown ' s Texas Longhorns football team from 1997 to 2001 . He was a first - team All - Big 12 Conference selection following his junior and senior seasons , and was recognized as a unanimous first - team All - American as a senior in 2001 . He was named team co - MVP his senior year and recorded seven interceptions as well as 195 tackles throughout his entire career . Professional career . 2002 NFL Draft . Jammer was drafted by the San Diego Chargers with the fifth overall pick in the first round of the 2002 NFL Draft . San Diego Chargers . Due to a holdout to start the 2002 season , Jammer was not ready to make an impact his rookie year and only started 4 games . The following year , in 2003 , Jammer started at the cornerback position , and has ever since . Coming into the NFL , Jammer was touted as being a physical player and a big hitter , rather than a finesse cover cornerback . The transition to the NFL for Jammer was difficult because the physical aggressiveness which brought him so much success in college often resulted in pass interference calls . Jammer led the NFL in pass interferences calls in 2004 with eight . Jammer suffered another setback in his development when the NFL made an officiating point of emphasis in 2004 that penalized defensive players for touching receivers further than 5 yards past the line of scrimmage . In an interview with Rick Gosselin of The Dallas Morning News , Jammer said , " All the rule changes for the offense have altered the game . It ' s turned football into track with pads . Before you know it , the receivers are going to have a free run at you . You can ' t touch them at all . The rules got me away from my game , " Jammer said . " When physical corners start finessing it , that ' s not their style . " Jammer has also been criticized for his lack of interceptions . In 62 career games leading up to the 2006 season , Jammer had only recorded six interceptions , including just two total in the 2004 and 2005 seasons . When the Chargers extended Jammer ' s contract during the 2006 offseason , Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union Tribune wrote that " . . . he is widely considered by Chargers fans to be among the team ' s weak links , mostly for the fact he has just six career interceptions . " Acee later wrote of Jammer : " In recent seasons Jammer has been without a doubt the most vilified Charger . It was difficult to tell whether he was disliked ( perhaps too mild a term ) more for what he did ( get called for a lot of penalties ) or what he didn ' t do ( make interceptions ) . It ' s possible in the past decade there has been only one other Charger ( do we really need to say his name ? ) who drew more wrath from the faithful . " During Jammer ' s first four years with the Chargers , the team regularly finished at or near the bottom of the league in terms of pass defense . Except for the 2003 season , the team was in the bottom five in terms of pass defense every year from 2002 to 2005 . This led many Charger fans to become frustrated with Jammer , as due to his high draft position he became a symbol for the Chargers ' failure to assemble a solid secondary . In turn , Jammer was often at odds with fans over their criticisms . In a September 2005 interview , Jammer said of the fans : " Those people are idiots . ( They ) don ' t know anything about football . . . They ' re not going to bother me . " Many fans could often be heard chanting , " Lito , Lito " every time Jammer was beaten by a receiver , a reference to Lito Sheppard , the two - time Pro - Bowl cornerback of the Philadelphia Eagles who was taken after Jammer in the 2002 draft . In recent years , supporters of Jammer noted that the Chargers had a poor pass defense not because of Jammer , but because of their anemic pass rush . But in 2005 , the Chargers had one of the top front 7s in the NFL , featuring Pro Bowler and NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Award winner Shawne Merriman and Pro Bowler Jamal Williams . Despite this fearsome pass rush , the Chargers still finished 28th in the league in pass defense . A reason for this may be that the 3 - 4 defense , which the Chargers use under Ted Cottrell , typically has larger , slower players in the front seven than in the respective positions in the 4 - 3 , leaving more pressure on the defensive backs . During training camp he signed a new five - year contract extension that will run through the 2012 season . The 2006 offseason saw an overhaul of the Chargers ' secondary after many disappointing years . The team signed former Carolina Panthers safety Marlon McCree as a free agent , and they spent a first round draft choice on cornerback Antonio Cromartie . McCree ' s veteran presence had an immediate impact on the secondary , including Jammer , who surpassed his 2005 interception total in only the third game of the season . Although Jammer only recorded one more interception in the remaining 13 games , the 2006 season was his best and most consistent as a pro . Towards the middle of the season , Jammer showed signs of turning into a shutdown cornerback , and QBs rarely threw at him . He closed out the Chargers 21 - 14 win over Oakland on Nov . 26 with an interception on first play after two - minute warning . He finished the season leading the team in interceptions with 4 and with a career high in tackles helping the Chargers finished 13th in the league in pass defense . Jammer critics point to the 3rd and 10 , long bomb Reche Caldwell caught in the divisional playoff game against the New England Patriots as a sign that Jammer is still not meeting expectations . Jammer , in blitz - scheme , short area press coverage , was not able to help the defense recover from an ineffective jailhouse blitz and Patriots ' quarterback Tom Brady comfortably stepped up in the pocket to loft a deep strike to Caldwell . Despite Brady ' s completion to Caldwell , Jammer had a strong day limiting Patriot receivers , in the 2007 AFC Championship game against the Patriots , he had an outstanding performance , limiting Randy Moss to 1 reception for 12 yards , and intercepting Tom Brady once . In week 6 of the 2012 season , Jammer recorded his first interception returned for a touchdown in his career on a pass from Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning . Denver Broncos . On May 29 , 2013 , Jammer signed with the Denver Broncos . Personal . Quentin has three sons . His cousins are Virginia Destroyers receiver Johnnie Lee Higgins , and former Seahawk Cedric Woodard . His brother is current Texas Longhorn cornerback Quandre Diggs .