Professional Career
The Jacksonville Jaguars selected Doering in the sixth round (185th pick overall) of the 1996 NFL Draft, but the Jaguars traded him to the Indianapolis Colts before the start of the 1996 season. He played for the Colts in three games in two seasons (1996–1997), but saw little action. The Colts waived him February 1998. The Cincinnati Bengals signed Doering a week later, but waived him before the 1998 regular season began.
In 1999, Doering signed with the Denver Broncos and appeared in three games. During the 2000 preseason, he ruptured his achilles tendon and was sidelined for the rest of the season, but returned to the Broncos' practice squad in 2001. The Washington Redskins, led by Doering's former Gators coach Steve Spurrier, signed him as a free agent in 2002, and he appeared in fifteen games and started three for the Redskins, compiling eighteen receptions for 192 yards and two touchdowns. In 2003, the Pittsburgh Steelers signed him, and he saw action in nineteen games through 2004, with eighteen catches for 240 yards and a touchdown.
Doering finished his journeyman NFL career with forty-two receptions for 476 yards and three touchdowns.
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