justin matthew boren born april 28 1988 is an american football guard and center for the denver broncos of the national football league nfl though a guard in the nfl boren played both guard and center during his high school and college football career in high school he was widely regarded as one of the top offensive linemen in the country and one of the top football prospects in the state of ohio he was selected to play in the us army allamerican bowl and was a parade allamerican and an associated press allohio selection the son of 1982 and 1983 michigan wolverines tackles leader mike boren justin was widely recruited by the nations top schools including both his fathers alma mater the university of michigan and its archrival ohio state university borens hometown schoolafter an intense recruitment boren choose to play at michigan despite leaning towards attending ohio state early in his recruitment he played in several games as a true freshman making one start as a sophomore he became a regular starter earning 2007 allbig ten conference honorable mention when head coach lloyd carr retired and was replaced by rich rodriguez boren became unhappy with the new staff and transferred to ohio state after transferring he had to sit 2008 ncaa division i fbs football season and was also required to pay his own tuition per big ten conference rules he earned recognition as a selection to the 2009 and 2010 allbig ten team by both the coaches secondteam and the media firstteam he was also a 2010 college football allamerica team second team selection by several selectors in 2009 he became the third player following howard yerges and j t white to play for both sides of the michigan ohio state rivalry he was also teammates with his brother zach boren who was a starting fullback and linebacker for the buckeyes his other brother jacoby boren is currently the starting center at ohio statehe was signed by the baltimore ravens of the national football league as an undrafted free agent in 2011 he has since played for the ravens detroit lions and denver broncos