Marc Colombo

He helped the offense rank third in the Big East in total offense with 414.9 yards per game (30th in the nation) and rushing offense at 201 yards per game (21st in the nation).

For the season, the offensive line gave up just six sacks.

He helped running back William Green to rush for 1,164 yards marking the third-straight season that Boston College had a 1,000-yard rusher.

Marc Edward Colombo (born October 8, 1978) is a former American football offensive tackle and coach who was most recently the offensive line coach for the New York Giants.

He played eleven seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Chicago Bears, Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins.

He played college football at Boston College.

He also served as offensive line coach for the Cowboys and Giants.

Colombo was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts and attended Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School where he earned Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Brockton Enterprise and Taunton Gazette all-scholastic honors as a senior offensive tackle.

He also earned All-Northeast honors from SuperPrep.

The team was second in the league in third-down efficiency (48.8%), the franchise's highest rating in that category since 1980.

The 455 points scored marked the second-most in franchise history behind only the 1983 team (479 points).

With an average of 365.7 yards-per-game, the Cowboys were third in the league (second in the conference) in total offense.

He helped lead his team to two conference titles in four years (1993 and 1996), his team advanced to the Division 1 Super Bowl in 1996.

He recorded 75 tackles and five sacks as a senior.

He also played basketball and baseball.

He won the Brockton Enterprise and Taunton Gazette's all-scholastic basketball honors while helping lead his team to the conference title as a senior.

He was also an honor roll student.

Colombo attended Boston College, where he graduated with a degree in Sociology from the College of Arts & Sciences.

He also worked on an undergraduate major his senior year.

The team also averaged 360.8 yards-per-game in total offense, the fifth-most in the league and the most for the Cowboys since their Super Bowl XXX winning season of 1995.

In 1997, as a freshman, Colombo red-shirted so that he could adjust to college football.

In 1998, as a red-shirt freshman, he played in six games, including the final two.

He played a key role in one of the most successful offensive seasons in club history while helping the team to a franchise record-tying 13 wins and the first NFC East title since 1998.

The offense finished the season second in the league in scoring (first in the conference) with an average of 28.4 points-per-game.

In 1999, as a red-shirt sophomore, he played in seven games, including Boston College's 62–28 loss to Colorado in the Insight.com Bowl.

In 2000, as a red-shirt junior, he started all 11 games at right tackle.

It was also his first year as a starter in college.

In 2001, as a red-shirt senior, he earned All-Big East honors playing at both tackle positions as a senior as part of an offensive line that helped the offense record 4,361 yards, including over 1,000 rushing yards.

Colombo was selected in the first round (29th overall) of the 2002 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears.

In 2002, as a rookie, Colombo was placed on injured reserve after suffering a dislocated patella and femoral nerve damage during a road game against the St. Louis Rams on November 18.

He missed the entire 2003 season after being placed first on the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) list on August 13, and then on injured reserve.

He also missed most of the 2004 season; he was finally activated from the Reserve/PUP list to the active roster on November 8, 2004.

He spent three injury-plagued seasons with the Bears before being released early in the 2005 season.

In 2005, he played in the Bears season opener; however, he was waived the next week, on September 13, 2005.

Colombo was out of football until he signed with the Dallas Cowboys on November 1, 2005.

He was then inactive for his first three games with Dallas.

He then played on special teams in a road game against the New York Giants, against the Kansas City Chiefs, and on the road against the Washington Redskins and then against the Rams.

In 2006, he was named the starting right tackle after training camp and started every game in one of the Cowboys most productive and efficient offensive seasons in franchise history.

The offense scored 425 points (26.6 points-per-game), the fourth-most in the league.

In 2007, Colombo started every game at right tackle for the second consecutive year.