CLEARWATER, Florida (CNN) -- Rescuers are using computer models to try to find three missing boaters, including two NFL players, off the Florida coast Tuesday, the Coast Guard said.One of the missing men was rescued Monday, but the search for others passed the 48-hour mark earlier Tuesday.
Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, NFL free agent Corey Smith and former University of South Florida football player William Bleakley went missing Saturday after leaving on a fishing trip.
"It's just gut wrenching, and it's just left me zapped of any energy," Marquis Cooper's father, Bruce Cooper, said Tuesday.
"I know this, he's a fighter," he said, adding that his son was an undersized linebacker both at the University of Washington and in the NFL. "He doesn't back down. He's just an extreme fighter. What I'm holding on to is that he's out in the water right now, just fighting."
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