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COMMUNITY<br />
ADMIN. &<br />
COACHES<br />
WELLS<br />
LAMBEAU RECORDS &<br />
DRAFT &<br />
MISC. FIELD HISTORY 2008 REVIEW FREE AGENTS<br />
VETERANS<br />
amass 203 yards on the ground (383 total) including 100-<br />
yard performances from both Green (106) and Vernand<br />
Morency (101), the first time since 1985 the Packers had<br />
a pair of 100-yard rushers in the same game…At Minnesota<br />
(Nov. 12): Part of an offensive line that did not give<br />
up a sack, helping Brett Favre throw for a season-high 347<br />
yards and two touchdowns.<br />
2005<br />
Played in all 16 games with 10 starts…Started<br />
twice at center for Flanagan (sports hernia), and<br />
eight games at left guard…Saw action exclusively on special<br />
teams in four contests…Received plenty of preseason<br />
reps with the first unit, filling in for Flanagan, who was<br />
held out of afternoon practices early in camp following<br />
2004 knee surgery…Began practicing at guard Aug. 13<br />
to improve his versatility, and played well enough there to<br />
be<strong>com</strong>e a dark horse in the<br />
derby for a starting job…<br />
Vs. New Orleans (Oct.<br />
9): Started at center for<br />
Flanagan in 52-3 win after<br />
playing most of the game<br />
the previous week at Carolina<br />
(Oct. 3) when Flanagan<br />
left with the injury…At<br />
Atlanta (Nov. 13): In<br />
an attempt to improve the<br />
running game, coaches<br />
started him at left guard,<br />
and he held the job for the<br />
remainder of the season.<br />
Was part of an offense<br />
in Falcons contest that<br />
produced the team’s first<br />
100-yard rusher, Gado…<br />
At Philadelphia (Nov.<br />
27): Started and helped<br />
pave the way for Gado’s<br />
111 rushing yards, only<br />
three days after he and his<br />
wife lost their unborn twins<br />
in a personal tragedy…Vs.<br />
Detroit (Dec. 11): Was<br />
part of an offensive line<br />
in 16-13 win that helped<br />
produce 330 total yards,<br />
including Gado’s 171 on<br />
the ground, the franchise’s<br />
rookie rushing record.<br />
2004<br />
Played in five regular-season games, with two<br />
starts, and also played in playoff game…Dressed<br />
but did not play in eight contests…Was waived by the<br />
Packers Sept. 5 and re-signed two days later to the practice<br />
squad, where he spent the season’s first three weeks…<br />
Promoted to the active roster Oct. 2, when Flanagan (knee)<br />
went on injured reserve…At Houston (Nov. 21): Made<br />
his <strong>NFL</strong> debut in Sunday night contest, on special teams…<br />
At Philadelphia (Dec. 5): Saw his first snaps at center,<br />
replacing Ruegamer (ankle), playing the last drive of the<br />
first half and the entire second half…Vs. Detroit (Dec.<br />
12): Made his first pro start, helping Packers to 116 yards<br />
rushing in 16-13 win; became the seventh center to start<br />
during Favre’s streak, and the team’s first rookie starting<br />
center since Bill Cherry (Oct. 12, 1986, vs. Detroit)…Vs.<br />
Jacksonville (Dec. 19): Started and assisted the Packers<br />
to 444 yards of total offense…Vs. Minnesota (Jan.<br />
9): In NFC Wild Card playoff, entered in the third quarter at<br />
center when the Packers shifted their line to ac<strong>com</strong>modate<br />
the loss of LT Chad Clifton (ankle)…2004 Draft: Drafted<br />
with a seventh-round <strong>com</strong>pensatory pick (251st overall)…<br />
First center selected by the Packers from the University of<br />
Tennessee in team history.<br />
college<br />
Four-year letterwinner at Tennessee<br />
(2000-03), playing in 50 career games with<br />
49 consecutive starts, the third-longest streak in college<br />
football history among offensive linemen…Was a redshirt<br />
freshman when Clifton was a senior…Earned two B.A. degrees<br />
(history and sociology)…Senior season (2003):<br />
As a team captain, started every game for a third straight<br />
season, earning second-team All-Southeastern Conference<br />
honors (coaches, The Associated Press)…Wore No. 67 at<br />
Auburn (Oct. 4) to honor teammate Chuck Prugh, hospitalized<br />
with a serious illness…Junior season (2002):<br />
Started all 13 games for a Volunteer team that averaged<br />
353.2 yards per game…Sophomore season (2001):<br />
Started all 13 games, and was part of a line that helped<br />
clear the way for RB Travis Stephens to rush for a school<br />
single-season record 1,464 yards…Redshirt freshman<br />
season (2000): Played in<br />
11 games at center, with<br />
10 starts…Earned thirdteam<br />
freshman All-America<br />
honors from The Sporting<br />
News and freshman All-<br />
Southeastern Conference<br />
recognition from the Knoxville<br />
News-Sentinel.<br />
personal<br />
Given name Scott Darvin<br />
Wells…Born in West,<br />
Texas…Married to Julie,<br />
the couple has a son,<br />
Jackson Wayne, 5, and a<br />
daughter, Lola Faith, 2…<br />
The Wells family considered<br />
their newest baby a<br />
true blessing and gift from<br />
God after losing premature<br />
twins the previous year; all<br />
the faith they needed to get<br />
through the tragedy led to<br />
the selection of their new<br />
baby’s middle name…<br />
High school: A PrepStar<br />
and CNN/Sports Illustrated<br />
All-America selection at<br />
Brentwood (Tenn.) Academy…Two-time<br />
all-state,<br />
all-region and all-district<br />
pick…Division II Class A<br />
‘Mr. Football’ in 1998 after leading Brentwood (11-1) to<br />
the state finals…Played offensive guard, defensive end and<br />
nose tackle…Recorded 12 sacks on defense as a junior and<br />
14 as a senior…Lettered four years in football, four in track<br />
and four in wrestling…Spent his freshman and sophomore<br />
years at Brookville (Pa.) Area High School…Won three<br />
wrestling titles, two in Greco Roman and one in freestyle…<br />
Was ranked as the nation’s No. 1 high school heavyweight<br />
wrestler (177-11 career record)…Threw discus and shot<br />
put in track events…Community involvement: In<br />
2005, signed autographs for the American Red Cross in exchange<br />
for cash donations for hurricane relief…Co-hosted<br />
two radio shows during the 2006 season and worked in<br />
conjunction with those stations to raise money for the<br />
Autism Society of the Fox Valley as well as the March of<br />
Dimes and continues to be involved in both causes…Has<br />
participated in the Edgar Bennett Celebrity Bowl-A-Thon,<br />
Al Harris Stars and Strikes Celebrity Bowling Event, Brett<br />
Favre Celebrity Softball Game, Mark Tauscher’s TRIFECTA<br />
Foundation golf event, dinners to benefit the Donald Driver<br />
Foundation, and the Families of Children with Cancer holiday<br />
party…The past few years has participated in the Salvation<br />
Army’s Adopt-a-Family program, buying presents<br />
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