Early Career
Playing both forms of the game as a junior, Rogers excelled in union at Queensland's The Southport School, a well known rugby union nursery. He played in the Australian Schoolboys representative team, at one point playing opposite a young Jonny Wilkinson, and future All Blacks sensation Jonah Lomu.
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