Nine-year NFL veteran and former Bowl Championship Series National Champion Jonathan Scott is being inducted into the Texas Athletics Hall of Honor on Friday, Sept. 15.
Scott, a former All-American left tackle for the 2005 BCS National Championship team, is being recognized for his achievements both at the University of Texas and during his professional career. The champion’s accomplishments earned him a spot in the Texas Athletics’ Hall of Honor, joining Texas legends, such as Jordan Spieth and Quan Crosby.
“I want to thank @TexasFootball and @TexasLonghorns for awarding me this high honor,” Scott said in a Facebook post.
Scott earned a unanimous All-American honor after his senior season and was on the All-Big 12 first team in his junior and senior years. In his senior year, he paved the way for one of the most productive offensive teams in college football history, anchoring a line that helped Texas rank first in scoring offense (50.2 points per game), second in rushing yards (274.9 yards per game) and third in total offense (512.1 yards per game). The 652 total points scored in the 2005 championship season broke a 22-year-old NCAA record of 624 points set by Nebraska in 1983. In his four seasons, he won at least eleven games in three seasons and ten in the other.
“(Choosing Texas) was one of the best decisions I have ever made,” Scott said on the Blue Bloods Podcast last year. “The energy that I had at Texas was right. And, guess what? I was right.”
In his professional career, Scott played for five different NFL teams across nine different seasons, playing in 71 games and starting in 35 of them. He was drafted in the fifth round at pick 141 to the Detroit Lions and played there for two seasons, playing in 20 games and starting in six. Scott started at left tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers and played in Super Bowl XLV, but lost 31-26 to Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers.
“(The Super Bowl) was like any other game,” Scott said in an exclusive interview with Steeler Takeaways. “It was a great moment of course. It would have been better if we won. … I think that’s the reason why I want to coach now. I won a national championship. Now I want to win a Super Bowl.”
After calling it quits and retiring from football as an Atlanta Falcon a couple of years after the Super Bowl, Scott has found new work. He is a brand ambassador for the National Psoriasis Foundation and has made way in finance, as he owns a private equity and finance group called Vanguard Holdings Group. The former Longhorn also found his way into coaching, working as an assistant coach for John Paul II High School in Plano, Texas. An author as well, Scott’s book “The Winning Playbook” reached No. 1 on Amazon’s bestsellers list.
The 2023 Hall of Honor ceremony will be held next Friday at the LBJ Auditorium.
