About Josh Rosen
Joshua Ballinger Lippincott Rosen (born February 10, 1997) is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for four seasons. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins, being named a Freshman All-American and winning Pac-12 Freshman Offensive Player of the Year in 2015. In 2017, Rosen set the school's record for single-season passing yards and earned second-team All-Pac-12 honors. Rosen was selected 10th overall in the 2018 NFL draft by the Arizona Cardinals. Following an unsuccessful rookie season, he was traded to the Miami Dolphins, where he also struggled and was released after a year. Rosen spent his last two seasons as a backup for the San Francisco 49ers and Atlanta Falcons. == Early life == Rosen was born on February 10, 1997, in Torrance, California, to Charles Rosen, an orthopedic spine surgeon, and Liz Lippincott, a former journalist. Rosen's father is Jewish and was a nationally ranked ice skater who almost qualified for the Winter Olympics in the 1970s, and his mother is a Quaker, who was the captain of the Princeton lacrosse team. Rosen had a bar mitzvah and identifies as Jewish, saying in 2016: "In retrospect, being Jewish is a big reason why I should have considered UCLA. Just because of how Jewish Hollywood is, and they really want someone to look up to because they just don't have professional athletes." As for his spiritual beliefs, Rosen describes himself as "kind of an atheist." Rosen is the maternal great-great-great-grandson of Joseph Wharton, the co-founder of Bethlehem Steel and founder of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which was named in his honor. Rosen is named after another ancestor, Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, who founded publishing house J. B. Lippincott & Co.
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