"Chosen" Adorns Back of Dolphins Receiver's jersey
Robbie Chosen seemingly didn’t just undergo another change to his first name, switching it for the third time.
It appears the Miami Dolphins’ newest receiver previously known as Robbie Anderson has chosen to alter his entire name, going with Robbie Chosen.
A gallery of pictures the Dolphins posted from Thursday’s on-field work showed “Chosen” being on the back of Anderson’s number 3 jersey.
Anderson, who has started 86 of the 111 games he’s played in during his seven-year career, won’t disclose why he changed his name again just yet.
But it likely has something to do with the message he wants to get across to the young people he’s mentoring, and intends to reach.
“I want to keep it intimate. But it’s a positive thing,” Chosen said this week. “It’s something I’m very grateful for and something I feel strongly about. This is my new era and direction. Kind of like a foundational thing moving forward for my generations.”
Back in February, Chosen shared a photo on his Instagram account that appeared to be a text exchange with his lawyer, which revealed that the name change had been legally awarded to the receiver.
Chosen's social media pages now refer to him as "Anderson R, Chosen."
His Instagram handle is @chosen1ra, which alludes to the official name change.
CHOSEN GETTING A FRESH START
On the Instagram post that Chosen shared, he seemed to indicate he was changing his first name for a fresh start.
"Those mistakes are part of my past," the 30-year-old said in a video on the post.
Chosen indeed has had a troubled past, which started from his high school days at Plantation High, where poor grades led to multiple suspensions and few scholarship offers.
He was suspended from Temple, but eventually made it back, had a dynamic senior season that led to him signing with the New York Jets as an undrafted rookie.
His NFL career took off immediately, but trouble followed Chosen.
Chosen received six months of non-reporting probation stemming from his 2019 arrest for reckless driving.
Chosen also had a resisting arrest charge that summer for an incident he had at a Miami Beach music festival dropped.
“It’s a lot of situations I’ve been in, or places I could have been, but God was the one looking over me and kept angels with me. That’s what I had to go through,” Chosen told the I Am Athlete podcast last summer during a sit-down interview. “I know kids will look at me and see ‘I don’t have to make those same mistakes.’ Just do right.
“Get good grades," Chosen continued. "Stay out of trouble, and do the things you’re supposed to do and it makes everything simple.”
