Barret Robbins Barrett Glen Robbins ( born August 26 , 1973 ) is a former American football center who played nine seasons for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League ( NFL ) . After playing college football for Texas Christian University , he was taken by the Oakland Raiders in the second round of the 1995 NFL Draft . He became one of the NFL ' s best centers , being elected to the Pro Bowl in 2002 . He was the leader of the Raiders offensive line that led them to Super Bowl XXXVII . Raider center . In 1996 , Mike White ' s last year as head coach , the second - year Robbins replaced Dan Turk in the lineup , becoming only the fifth starting center in Raider history , after Turk , Don Mosebar , Dave Dalby , and Jim Otto . During the 2000 NFL season with Jon Gruden as head coach and Rich Gannon at quarterback , Oakland scored 479 points ( 29 . 9 points / game ) , 3rd of 31 teams in the NFL , thanks to a strong offensive line which included Robbins playing between Steve Wisniewski at left guard and Mo Collins at right guard in all 16 games ( also both playoff games ) , finishing with a won - lost record of 12 – 4 , top in the AFC western division . In the divisional round of the 2000 - 01 NFL playoffs , Oakland shut out the Miami Dolphins 27 – 0 , gaining 140 yards on the ground . However , the Raiders lost the AFC championship game to the Baltimore Ravens when Gannon was injured early . During the 2001 NFL season , Robbins was injured , playing in only 2 regular season games , replaced by Adam Treu ( also in both playoff games ) , when Oakland scored 399 points ( 24 . 9 points / game ) , 4th of 31 teams in the NFL , and won the AFC west again with a 10 – 6 record , defeating the New York Jets in a wild card game but losing to the New England Patriots in the divisional round . In the 2002 NFL season with Bill Callahan in his first year as head coach , Robbins rebounded strongly by starting all 16 regular season games and making the Pro Bowl . Oakland won the AFC west for the third straight year , with a 11 – 5 record , scoring 450 points ( 28 . 1 points / game ) , 2nd of 32 teams in the NFL . In the 2002 – 03 NFL playoffs , the Raiders defeated the New York Jets again with 399 total yards , with an offensive line composed of Robbins , Frank Middleton and Mo Collins at guard , Barry Sims and Lincoln Kennedy at tackle . The Raiders then beat with the same offensive line the Tennessee Titans in the AFC championship game , gaining 375 total yards . Then , inexplicably , the day before Super Bowl XXXVII , disaster struck Robbins . He was reported as missing for most of the day before the game after not taking his depression medication . When he resurfaced that night , he was so incoherent that Callahan left him off the roster . He spent 30 days at the Betty Ford Center , during which time he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder ( or manic - depressive disorder ) . He ' d been diagnosed with depression while at TCU , but it is common for the two to be confused in the early stages . Robbins later told his wife that he had spent most of the day before the Super Bowl partying across the border in Tijuana , and actually thought the Raiders had already won the game and he was celebrating their victory . With Adam Treu as the starting center , the Raiders were humiliated in an embarrassing loss in the Super Bowl to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers , 48 - 21 . Robbins regained his starting job the next year in the 2003 NFL season with the same linemates , a disastrous 4 – 12 for the team . However , his name and those of several of his teammates were found on the list of clients of the Bay Area Laboratory Co - operative that had given performance - enhancing drugs to Marion Jones and others . The Raiders released him in the summer of 2004 after he tested positive for a steroid known to have come from the BALCO lab . Treu replaced him as the starting center . Post - football troubles . A few months later , on Christmas Eve , he was arrested for punching a security guard who tried to keep him from going to a bar at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco . On January 15 , 2005 , Robbins was shot three times during a brawl with police in Miami Beach , and was subsequently charged with attempted murder for his role . Under a plea agreement , Robbins pled guilty to five charges , including the attempted murder charge , and was sentenced to five years probation , ordered to receive treatment for his bipolar disorder , and to avoid alcohol . He has spent most of the last six years in jail or in rehab facilities due to problems with substance abuse . He ultimately ended up in a rehab facility in Houston in 2008 , and was transferred to a halfway house in May 2009 . In a 2009 interview with HBO ' s Real Sports , Robbins told Andrea Kremer that before being diagnosed as bipolar , he had dealt with his mood swings by taking alcohol , cocaine , marijuana and steroids . He also said that he had been in a manic mood for both Raider playoff games prior to the Super Bowl . His ex - wife , Marisa , also interviewed for the story , said that before the diagnosis there were days where he had breakfast and went right back to bed . In early 2010 , a police officer pulled him over near Dallas and found crack cocaine in his car . On March 25 , 2011 , Robbins was sentenced to five years in a Florida prison for a drug - related probation violation and was released on September 25 , 2012 .