FEATURED JOBS
Name: Gabe Carimi
Team: Chicago Bears
Pos: Offensive Lineman
Height/Weight: 6-7, 316 pounds
Notes: A first-round pick in 2011, Carimi, 24, has established himself as a starter after suffering a season-ending knee injury two games into his rookie campaign. As a freshman at Wisconsin in 2007 fasted on Yom Kippur until an hour before a game against the rival Iowa.
Name: Greg Camarillo
Team: New Orleans Saints
Pos: Wide Receiver
Height/Weight: 6-0, 200 pounds
Notes: Camarillo, 30, was an undrafted free agent before signing with the San Diego Chargers out of Stanford in 2005. He has 142 catches for 1,686 yards and two touchdowns in a career that also includes stints with the Minnesota Vikings and the Miami Dolphins. Camarillo grew up Jewish although his paternal side is Catholic.
Name: Brian de la Puente
Team: New Orleans Saints
Pos: Offensive Lineman
Height/Weight: 6-2, 308 pounds
Notes: De la Puente, 27, is the starting center for the Saints after entering the NFL as an undrafted free agent with the San Francisco 49ers in 2008. He is Jewish on his mother’s side.
Name: Antonio Garay
Team: San Diego Chargers
Pos: Defensive Tackle
Height/Weight: 6-4, 320 pounds
Notes: Garay, 32, suffered a career- threatening leg injury following an illegal “chop block” while playing in 2007. Garay’s mother is Jewish and his father is Catholic.
Name: Erik Lorig
Team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Pos: Fullback/Tight End
Height/Weight: 6-4, 270 pounds
Notes: Lorig, 25, was selected in the seventh round of the 2010 draft out of Stanford. He had six catches for 53 yards while appearing in all 16 games (seven starts) in 2011. Lorig is of German Jewish descent on his father’s side and of Scandinavian descent on his mother’s side.
Name: Taylor Mays
Team: Cincinnati Bengals
Pos: Safety
Height/Weight: 6-3, 230 pounds
Notes: Mays, 24, joined the Bengals in 2011 after being traded by the San Francisco 49ers. Selected in the second round of the 2010 NFL draft out of USC, Mays was recently inducted into the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Mays’ mother is Jewish and credits his football-themed bar mitzvah as one reason he turned to the gridiron.
Name: Adam Podlesh
Team: Chicago Bears
Pos: Punter
Height/Weight: 5-11, 200 pounds
Notes: Podlesh, 29. is in his second season with the Bears after setting a franchise single-season record in net punting average (40.4) in 2011. He came to Chicago after spending four seasons in Jacksonville (2007-10). He played his college football for the University of Maryland.
Name: Geoff Schwartz
Team: Minnesota Vikings
Pos: Offensive Lineman
Height/Weight: 6-6, 331 pounds
Notes: Schwartz, 26, signed with the Vikings in the offseason after spending his first four years in the NFL with the Carolina Panthers. Schwartz, a 2008 seventh-round pick out of Oregon, missed all of last season with a hip injury, after starting all 16 games in 2010.
Name: Mitchell Schwartz
Team: Cleveland Browns
Pos: Offensive Lineman
Height/Weight: 6-5, 320 pounds
Notes: Schwartz, 22, is a rookie who was selected in the second round out of California. He signed a four-year, $5.17 million contract with the Browns earlier this year. Along with older brother Geoff, the Schwartz family provides the NFL with its first set of Jewish siblings in the league at the same time since Ralph and Arnold Horween in 1923.
— Compiled by Ron Snyder
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