caption playing_years databasefootball birth_place |imagewidth playing_team article_title position birth_date nfl pfr number image college name
james jenkins , 2009 1991 -- 2000 jenkijam01 staten island , new york 220 washington redskins james jenkins -lrb- american football -rrb-
 tight end , h-back 17 august 1967 jen268550 jenkja00 88 james jenkins 090502.jpg rutgers james jenkins
james jenkins -lrb- american football -rrb-

james jenkins -lrb- born august 17 , 1967 -rrb- is a former american football tight end who played for ten seasons in the national football league -lrb- nfl -rrb- for the washington redskins as a blocking specialist on offense , winning super bowl xxvi during the 1991 season .
jenkins attended curtis high school .
he played college football for rutgers university .
while undrafted , joe gibbs made a personal appeal to jenkins to not join the army and concentrate on professional football instead .
a divorced single father of three , after working as an nfl strength and conditioning coach , worked as a state trooper for va state police , where he earned several performance awards for dui and drug enforcement .
he is now working as head coach of the düsseldorf panthers , a german division i football team .
previously he was employed as a personal training manager for lifetime fitness in sugarloaf , georgia .
