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Matt Leinart

No. 7, 9, 11

Position: Quarterback

Personal information

Born: May 11, 1983 (age 38)

Santa Ana, California

Height: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)

Weight: 225 lb (102 kg)

Career information

High school: Mater Dei

(Santa Ana, California)

College: USC

NFL Draft: 2006 / Round: 1 / Pick: 10

Career history

Arizona Cardinals (2006–2009)

Houston Texans (2010–2011)

Oakland Raiders (2012)

Buffalo Bills (2013)*

* Offseason and/or practice squad member only

Career highlights and awards

Heisman Trophy (2004)

BCS National Champion (vacated) (2004)[1][2]

2× AP National Champion (2003, 2004)

Manning Award (2004)

Johnny Unitas Award (2005)

Walter Camp Award (2004)

2× Archie Griffin Award (2003, 2004)

2× First-team All-American (2004, 2005)

2× Quarterback of the Year (2004, 2005)

2× Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year (2004, 2005)

USC Trojans No. 11 retired

Career NFL statistics

Pass attempts: 644

Pass completions: 366

Percentage: 57.1

TD–INT: 15–21

Passing yards: 4,064

Passer rating: 70.2

College Football Hall of Fame

Matthew Stephen Leinart (born May 11, 1983) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons and now serves as an on-air college football analyst for Fox Sports. He played college football at USC, where he won the Heisman Trophy and led his team to an undefeated season as a junior, culminating with a victory in the 2005 Orange Bowl. Selected by the Arizona Cardinals 10th overall in the 2006 NFL Draft, Leinart primarily served as Kurt Warner's backup for four seasons. He spent his final three seasons in a backup role for the Houston Texans and Oakland Raiders. Leinart was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017.[3]

Early years

Leinart was born in Santa Ana, California, with strabismus (commonly known as "crossed eyes"); his left eye was not aligned correctly with his right. He underwent surgery when he was three years old and was fitted with special glasses to correct the problem, but the eyewear combined with Leinart's already-overweight frame made him an easy target for other children's ridicule.[4] "I used to get made fun of for being cross-eyed. It's just a terrible thing because kids are so cruel to the fat kid, to the kid with the glasses. So I turned to sports," he would later say.[5]

Leinart attended Mater Dei High School and was a letterman in football and basketball. As a junior, he led his team to a California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division I co-championship and was named the Serra League's Offensive Most Valuable Player. Wearing number 7, he was chosen as the Gatorade California high school football player of the year.[6]

As one of the nation's top college football recruits, Leinart committed to USC under coach Paul Hackett, noting that a major factor was offensive coordinator Hue Jackson.[7] However, after Hackett and most of his staff were fired in 2000, Leinart considered other programs such as Georgia Tech and Arizona State and visited Oklahoma and the [University of Michigan] before USC eventually hired Pete Carroll.[8][9][10]

College career

Leinart attended the University of Southern California, where he played for coach Pete Carroll's USC Trojans football team from 2001 to 2005. He redshirted in 2001. As a freshman the next year, he understudied senior quarterback Carson Palmer, who went on to win the Heisman Trophy and was drafted first overall by the Cincinnati Bengals in the 2003 NFL Draft. Leinart appeared in only a few plays in 2002 but did not throw any passes. As a sophomore in 2003, Leinart competed with redshirt junior Matt Cassel, who was Palmer's backup the previous season, and Purdue transfer Brandon Hance for the vacant starting quarterback position. Going into the season, Carroll and his coaching staff selected Leinart, not because he had set himself significantly ahead of the pack in practice, but because they needed a starting quarterback.[11]

When the coaching staff told Leinart he would be the starter, he replied, "You're never going to regret this." There was some thought in the press that Leinart would merely hold the starting position until highly touted true freshman John David Booty, who had bypassed his senior year in high school to attend USC, could learn the offense.[12]

Leinart's first career pass was a touchdown against Auburn in a 23–0 victory in the season opener. He would win the first three games of his career before the then-#3 Trojans suffered a 34–31 triple-overtime defeat at California on September 27 that dropped the Trojans to #10. Leinart and the Trojans bounced back the next week against Arizona State. Leinart injured his knee in the second quarter and was not expected to play again that day, but he returned to the game and finished 12-of-23 for 289 yards in a 37–17 victory.[11]

Leinart and the Trojans won their final eight games and finished the regular season 11–1 and ranked No. 1 in the AP and coaches' polls. However, USC was left out of the BCS championship game after finishing third in the BCS behind Oklahoma and LSU. The Trojans went to the Rose Bowl and played University of Michigan. Leinart was named the Rose Bowl MVP after he went 23-of-34 for 327 yards, throwing three touchdowns and catching a touchdown of his own from wide receiver Mike Williams. In 13 starts, Leinart was 255 for 402 for 3,556 yards and 38 touchdowns with nine interceptions. He finished sixth in the Heisman voting.

In recognition of his Rose Bowl accomplishments, Leinart was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 2019[13]

Junior and senior seasons

The Trojans started Leinart's junior season (2004) with victories in their first three games. On September 25, the Trojans played Stanford. After Stanford took a 28–17 halftime lead, Leinart sparked the offense with a 51-yard pass to Steve Smith and scored on a one-yard sneak to cut the Cardinal lead to four points. Leinart and the Trojans were able to take the lead on a LenDale White rushing touchdown and held on for the victory, 31–28. Leinart completed 24 of 30 passes.

Leinart finished the final regular season game against UCLA, but was held without a touchdown pass for the first time in 25 starts. Nonetheless, Leinart was invited to New York for the Heisman ceremony, along with teammate Reggie Bush, Oklahoma's freshman running back sensation Adrian Peterson, quarterback and incumbent Heisman winner Jason White, and Utah's quarterback Alex Smith. In what many had considered one of the more competitive Heisman races, Leinart became the sixth USC player to claim the Heisman Trophy.

Matt Leinart's Heisman Trophy

In 2004, USC went wire-to-wire at No. 1 in the polls and earned a bid to the BCS title game at the Orange Bowl against Oklahoma, which was also 12–0. A dream matchup on paper (including White vs. Leinart, which was to be the first time two Heisman winners would play against each other), the Orange Bowl turned out to be a rout, as Leinart threw for five touchdown passes on 18-for-35 passing and 332 yards to lead the Trojans to a 55–19 victory. Leinart received Orange Bowl MVP honors and the Trojans claimed their first BCS national championship and second straight No. 1 finish in the AP, extending their winning streak to 22 games. This victory and BCS championship were later vacated as a result of the Reggie Bush scandal (though the AP national championship still stands).[14]

The 2005 Trojans again had a perfect 12–0 regular season. Against Notre Dame, Leinart threw for a career-high 400 yards. After an incomplete pass and a sack led to a fourth-and-nine situation with 1:36 left—at the Trojans' own 26-yard line, Leinart called an audible "slant and go" route at the line of scrimmage and threw deep against the Irish's man-to-man coverage, where Dwayne Jarrett caught the ball and raced to the Irish' 13-yard line, a 61-yard gain. Leinart moved the ball to the goal line as time dwindled and scored on a quarterback sneak that gave the Trojans a 34–31 lead with three seconds to go, giving the Trojans their 28th straight victory and one of the most memorable and dramatic finishes in the history of the Notre Dame–USC rivalry. Leinart was again invited to New York for the Heisman ceremony along with teammate Reggie Bush and Texas quarterback Vince Young. As a former Heisman winner, Leinart cast his first-place vote for Bush, and ended up third in the voting behind Bush (since vacated) and runner-up Young.[15]

The Trojans advanced to the Rose Bowl to face Vince Young and #2 Texas in the BCS title game. The title game was considered another "dream matchup." Leinart himself had a great game, going 29-of-40 for a touchdown and 365 yards, but was overshadowed by Young, who piled up 467 yards of total offense and rushed for three touchdowns, including a score with 19 seconds remaining and two-point conversion to put the Longhorns ahead, 41–38. The Trojans lost for the first time in 35 games, and Leinart for just the second time in his 39 career starts. After graduation, Leinart's #11 jersey was retired at USC.[16]

Leinart finished his college career with 807 completions on 1,245 attempts (64.8% completion percentage) for 10,693 yards and 99 touchdowns with just 23 interceptions. He is USC's all-time leader in career touchdown passes and completion percentage, and is second at USC behind Carson Palmer in completions and yardage. He averaged nearly 8.6 yards per attempt, and averaged only one interception every 54 attempts. He was 37–2 as a starter.

Statistics

Season Team GP Passing Rushing

Comp Att Pct Yds TD Int Att Yds TD

2003 USC Trojans 13 255 402 63.4 3,556 38 9 32 -62 0

2004 USC Trojans 13 269 412 65.3 3,322 33 6 49 -44 3

2005 USC Trojans 13 283 431 65.7 3,815 28 8 51 36 6

Totals 39 807 1,245 64.8 10,693 99 23 132 -70 9

Honors

2004

Heisman Trophy Winner

Rose Bowl MVP

Walter Camp Award

AP player of the year

Touchdown Club Manning Award

Touchdown Club QB of the Year

Victor Award (Player of the Year)

James E. Sullivan Award Finalist

Newport college player of the year

AP All-American first team

Football Coaches All-American first team

ESPN, CSTV, Rivals.com, SI.com, and CFBNews first team All-American

Pac-10 Co-offensive player of the year

ESPN.com player of the year

Rivals.com player of the year

Pre-season All-American

2005

Orange Bowl MVP

Unitas Award

Finalist for Heisman Trophy

All-American Offensive Player

LA Sports Sportsman of the Year

Sporting News Sportsman of the Year

Professional career

2006 NFL Draft

Projected to be the first overall pick of the 2005 NFL Draft, Leinart's draft stock decreased after he chose to return to USC for his senior season.[17][18][19][20][21][22] Nonetheless, he remained one of the top prospects in the 2006 NFL Draft. Scouts considered Leinart to be the archetypal NFL quarterback in size at 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) and 225 pounds (102 kg), although his arm strength drew concerns. He was selected tenth overall in the draft by the Arizona Cardinals. Leinart was the draft's second-highest selected quarterback after Vince Young, who had defeated Leinart's team in the Rose Bowl.

Pre-draft measurables

Height Weight Arm length Hand span 40-yard dash Vertical jump Broad jump Wonderlic

6 ft 4+7⁄8 in

(1.95 m) 223 lb

(101 kg) 33+1⁄2 in

(0.85 m) 10+1⁄8 in

(0.26 m) 4.90 s 37 in

(0.94 m) 9 ft 5 in

(2.87 m) 35[23]

All values from NFL Combine and Pro Day[24][25]

Arizona Cardinals

Leinart at a Cardinals practice

Leinart spent four seasons with the Cardinals, primarily as a backup for veteran Kurt Warner.

In his first season, after a contentious negotiation making him the last member of the draft to sign a contract, Leinart agreed to a six-year, $51 million contract on August 14.[26] Leinart played in the second quarter of the exhibition game against the New England Patriots on August 19.

Cardinals head coach Dennis Green held a press conference after a poor performance by Warner in Week 3 and announced Leinart would start. He made his debut in the fourth game of the season, throwing two touchdown passes.

In Week 6 against the 5–0 Chicago Bears, Leinart threw two touchdown passes in the first half, but the Bears came back in the second half to win 24–23.

In a November 26 game against the Minnesota Vikings, he set an NFL rookie record with 405 passing yards; however, the team lost to the Minnesota Vikings. His quarterback rating was 74.0. He suffered a sprained left shoulder (throwing arm) in the Week 16 win over the San Francisco 49ers. In 11 starts, Leinart threw for 2,547 yards and 11 touchdowns. He finished the season with a 4–7 record.

Leinart opened the 2007 season on Monday Night Football against the San Francisco 49ers as the starting quarterback. After a sequence of drives, the offense stalled, head coach Ken Whisenhunt began to insert Warner as a situational quarterback. On October 7, 2007, Leinart suffered a fractured left collarbone after being sacked by St. Louis Rams linebacker Will Witherspoon. Three days later, he was placed on injured reserve, ending his season. In his first two NFL seasons, Leinart had suffered two season-ending injuries, all due to being sacked. With Warner at the helm for the remainder of the season, the Cardinals mounted a late-season surge and won five of their final eight games.[citation needed]

In Leinart's second season with Arizona, he started five games, completed 53.6% of his passes (60/112), and threw for 647 yards, 5.8 yards per attempt, two touchdowns, and four interceptions. His passer rating was 61.9. He averaged 129 yards and 0.4 touchdowns per start. In the 2008 offseason, after he recovered from the injury, Leinart was handed his starting job back. Still, his hold on the job was tenuous after another strong training camp performance by Warner. Finally, after Leinart threw three interceptions within a matter of minutes versus the Oakland Raiders in the third preseason game, Warner was named the opening-day starter. Leinart picked up only a limited number of snaps in mop-up duty behind Warner. Warner started 16 games and took the Cardinals to their first ever Super Bowl, cementing his status as starter and Leinart's status as a backup. For the 2008 season, he completed 15 of 29 passing attempts (51.7%), one touchdown, one interception, and an 80.2 passer rating. In 2009, Leinart continued his role as back-up for Warner, who started all but one regular season game.[citation needed]

In 2010, Leinart was named the presumptive starter after Warner's retirement. However, due to poor play, the starting job in training camp was given to Derek Anderson. The Cardinals released Leinart on September 4, two days after the final preseason game, in favor of Anderson and rookies Max Hall and John Skelton.[27]

Houston Texans

On September 6, 2010, the NFL announced that Leinart signed a one-year contract to back up Matt Schaub with the Houston Texans. Since Schaub played all 16 games, Leinart did not play during the 2010 season. During the 2011 offseason, despite speculation that he would sign with the Seattle Seahawks, who were coached by Leinart's college coach Pete Carroll, and compete for a starting job,[28][29] Leinart ultimately agreed to return to Houston as a backup for the 2011 season.[30] In Week 10, Schaub injured his right foot and the Texans named Leinart their starter. Leinart started for the first time in Week 12 against the Jacksonville Jaguars; however, during the first half he fractured his collarbone and was replaced by rookie quarterback T. J. Yates. At this point in his career, Leinart had suffered three season-ending injuries (2006, 2007, 2011) within his last eight starts.

On March 12, 2012, Leinart was released by the Texans.[31]

Oakland Raiders

Leinart signed with the Oakland Raiders on May 1, 2012, as the backup to his former college teammate and fellow Heisman winner Carson Palmer.[32] After Palmer suffered an injury in Week 16, Leinart and Terrelle Pryor split first-team reps.[33] Pryor ended up getting the start in Week 17 and Leinart was not re-signed by the Raiders the following offseason.

Buffalo Bills

After injuries to quarterbacks EJ Manuel (knee surgery) and Kevin Kolb (concussion), the Bills decided to sign Leinart on August 25, 2013.[34] Leinart and Thad Lewis (who was brought in on the same day through a trade) would compete for the fourth-string quarterback job behind undrafted rookie Jeff Tuel. Lewis won the competition, and Leinart was released by the team on August 30, 2013.[35]

NFL career statistics

Year Team Games Passing Rushing

GP GS Att Comp Pct Yards Avg TD Int Rtg Att Yds Avg TD

2006 ARI 12 11 377 214 56.8 2,547 6.8 11 12 74.0 22 49 2.2 2

2007 ARI 5 5 112 60 53.6 647 5.8 2 4 61.9 11 42 3.8 0

2008 ARI 4 0 29 15 51.7 264 9.1 1 1 80.2 4 5 1.3 0

2009 ARI 8 1 77 51 66.2 435 5.6 0 3 64.6 9 -6 -0.7 0

2010 HOU 0 0 DNP

2011 HOU 2 1 13 10 76.9 57 4.4 1 0 110.1 1 -1 -1.0 0

2012 OAK 2 0 33 16 48.5 115 3.5 0 1 44.4 0 0 0.0 0

Total 33 18 641 366 57.1 4,065 6.3 15 21 70.2 47 89 1.9 2

Personal life

Leinart has a son with Brynn Cameron, who is a former USC women's basketball player.[36] The couple parted ways before their son's birth.[37][38]

As of May 2018, Leinart is married to Make It or Break It and The Mentalist actress Josie Loren.[39] In January 2020, Loren gave birth to Leinart's second son.[40]

Vince Young

No. 10, 9

Position: Quarterback

Personal information

Born: May 18, 1984 (age 37)

Houston, Texas, United States

Height: 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)

Weight: 232 lb (105 kg)

Career information

High school: Houston (TX) Madison

College: Texas (2002–2005)

NFL Draft: 2006 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3

Career history

Tennessee Titans (2006–2010)

Philadelphia Eagles (2011)

Saskatchewan Roughriders (2017)

Career highlights and awards

2× Pro Bowl (2006, 2009)

NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (2006)

Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year (2009)

BCS national champion (2005)

Maxwell Award (2005)

Manning Award (2005)

Davey O'Brien Award (2005)

Consensus All-American (2005)

Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year (2005)

Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year (2003)

Pete Dawkins Trophy (2002)

Texas Longhorns No. 10 retired

Career NFL statistics

TD–INT: 46–51

Passing yards: 8,964

Passer rating: 74.4

Completion percentage: 57.9

Rushing yards: 1,459

Rushing touchdowns: 12

College Football Hall of Fame

Vincent Paul Young Jr. (born May 18, 1984) is a former American football quarterback. Young played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons. Young was drafted by the Tennessee Titans with the third overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft.

Young played college football for the University of Texas. As a junior, he won the Davey O'Brien Award, awarded annually to the best college quarterback in the nation. He finished second behind Reggie Bush in Heisman Trophy voting. After the Heisman voting, Young led his team to a BCS National Championship against the defending BCS national champion USC Trojans in the 2006 Rose Bowl, a game lauded as one of the most-anticipated and greatest in the history of college football.[1] Texas retired Young's jersey on August 30, 2008.[2]

He spent the first five seasons of his career with the Titans where he compiled a 30–17 starting record. In his rookie season, Young was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and was named to the AFC Pro Bowl team as a reserve.[3] In 2009, Young earned his second Pro Bowl selection and was named Sporting News NFL Comeback Player of the Year. He later played one year as a backup with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2011 and had offseason stints with the Buffalo Bills, the Green Bay Packers and Cleveland Browns from 2012–2014. In 2017, he attempted a comeback in the Canadian Football League with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, but was released before the season began.

Early life

Young grew up in the Hiram Clarke neighborhood of Houston, Texas, where he was primarily raised by his mother and his grandmother. His father, Vincent Young Sr., missed much of Vince's college career due to a 2003 burglary conviction and prison sentence.[4] Young credits his mother and grandmother for keeping him away from the street gangs. At the age of seven, Young was struck by a vehicle while riding his bicycle at the corner of Tidewater and Buxley, streets in his Houston neighborhood. The accident nearly killed him, leaving him hospitalized for months after the bicycle's handle bar went into his stomach. Today, he credits this event for making him into a "tougher" individual. Young wore the #10 to show love and respect for his mother, Felicia Young, whose birthday is June 10.[5] Young attended Dick Dowling Middle School in Hiram Clarke.[6] Some of Young's friends were a part of the "Hiram Clarke Boys", a local street gang; many of those friends died as a result of their activities. Young's mother confronted him after he had been involved in a fight between gangs, and told him that he needed to change his behavior.[7]

High school career

You can't turn on a television in Houston without seeing Vince Young. You might see him more than the Texans. He was like LeBron James in Houston when he was coming out of high school.

— Rodrique Wright, Alief Hastings High School, and later Texas defensive tackle.[8]

Young was coached by Ray Seals at Madison High School in Houston, where he started at quarterback for three years and compiled 12,987 yards of total offense during his high school career.[9] During his senior season, he led his Madison Marlins to a 61–58 victory in the 5A Regionals over the previously undefeated Galena Park North Shore Mustangs, accounting for more than 400 yards of total offense while passing for three touchdowns and rushing for two more before a crowd of 45,000 in the Houston Astrodome.[8] After beating Missouri City Hightower 56–22 in the state quarterfinals, Houston Madison faced Austin Westlake in the state semi-finals. Although Young completed 18-of-30 passes for 400 yards and five touchdowns and rushed for 92 yards (on 18 carries) and a touchdown, Houston Madison lost by a score of 48–42.

Among the honors Young received in high school were:

being named Parade's and Student Sports' National Player of the Year after compiling 3,819 yards and 59 touchdowns as a senior,[10]

being named 2001 Texas 5A Offensive Player of the Year,[10]

designation as The Sporting News's top high school prospect,[9][10]

and the Pete Dawkins Trophy in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl.[9]

Young was also a varsity athlete in numerous other sports. In basketball, he played as a guard/forward and averaged more than 25 points per game over his career. This allowed him to be a four-year letterman and two-time all-district performer. In track and field, he was a three-year letterman and member of two district champion 400-meter relay squads. In baseball he played for two seasons, spending time as both an outfielder and pitcher. He also made the all-state team in football and in track.[10]

College career

Young during the 2005 Big XII Championship game

Young scores a touchdown in the 2005 Big 12 Championship Game.

Young about to score the go-ahead touchdown in the 2006 Rose Bowl

Young at the White House with George W. Bush, Mack Brown, and members of the 2005 national championship team

Young enrolled at the University of Texas, where he played for coach Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns football team from 2002 to 2005.[11] He was part of an exceptionally strong Texas recruiting class that included future NFL players Rodrique Wright, Justin Blalock, Brian Robison, Kasey Studdard, Lyle Sendlein, David Thomas, Selvin Young, and Aaron Ross.[12][13] Young redshirted his freshman year.

2003 season

See also: 2003 Texas Longhorns football team

As a redshirt freshman during the 2003 season, Young was initially second on the depth chart behind Chance Mock. However, Mock was benched halfway through the season (in the game against Oklahoma) in favor of Young. After that game, Young and Mock alternated playing time, with Young's running ability complementing Mock's drop-back passing.

2004 season

See also: 2004 Texas Longhorns football team

As a redshirt sophomore in the 2004 season, Young started every game and led the Longhorns to an 11–1 season record (losing 12–0 to rival Oklahoma in a shutout), a top 5 final ranking, and the school's first-ever appearance in the Rose Bowl, in which they defeated the University of Michigan. He began to earn his reputation as a dual-threat quarterback by passing for 1,849 and rushing for 1,189 yards. The Texas coaches helped facilitate this performance by changing the team offensive scheme from the more traditional I-formation to a Shotgun formation with three wide receivers. This change gave the offense more options in terms of play selection, and consequently made it more difficult to defend against.

Before his junior season, Young appeared on the cover of Dave Campbell's Texas Football alongside Texas A&M quarterback Reggie McNeal.

2005 season: National Championship

See also: 2005 Texas Longhorns football team

As a redshirt junior in the 2005 season, Young led the Longhorns to an 11–0 regular season record. The Longhorns held a #2 ranking in the preseason, and held that ranking through the season except for one week when they were ranked #1 in the Bowl Championship Series.[14] Texas then won the Big 12 championship game and still held their #2 BCS ranking, which earned them a berth in the National Championship Rose Bowl game against the USC Trojans. Before the game, the USC Trojans were being discussed on ESPN and other media outlets as possibly the greatest college football team of all time. Riding a 34-game winning streak, including the previous National Championship, USC featured two Heisman Trophy winners in the backfield – quarterback Matt Leinart (2004 Heisman winner) and running back Reggie Bush (2005 Heisman winner—since vacated).

In the 2006 Rose Bowl, Young accounted for 467 yards of total offense (200 rushing, 267 passing) and three rushing touchdowns (including a 9-yard touchdown scramble on 4th down with 19 seconds left) to lead the Longhorns to a 41–38 victory. This performance led to him winning Rose Bowl MVP honors. Young finished the season with 3,036 yards passing and 1,050 yards rushing earning him the Davey O'Brien Award.[15] He was also named the Longhorns MVP.[16] He was named an All-American. In recognition of his Rose Bowl accomplishments, Young was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame in 2018.[17]

Early in his college career, Young had been criticized as "great rusher...average passer", and his unconventional throwing motion had been criticized as being "side-arm"[18] as opposed to the conventional "over the top" throwing motion typically used by college quarterbacks.

Young reached a win/loss record as a starter of 30–2, ranking him #1 of all University of Texas quarterbacks by number of wins, although his successor, Colt McCoy, would far surpass him with 45. His .938 winning percentage as a starting quarterback ranks sixth best in Division I history. Young's career passing completion percentage is the best in Texas history, 60.8%. During his career at Texas (2003–05), Young passed for 6,040 yards (No. 5 in Texas history) and 44 touchdowns (No. 4 in Texas history) while rushing for 3,127 yards (No. 1 on Texas's all-time QB rushing list/No. 7 on Texas's all-time list) and 37 touchdowns (No. 5 on Texas's all-time rushing touchdowns list/Tied for No. 1 among quarterbacks).[19] He was also #10 on ESPN/IBM's list of the greatest college football players ever. In 2007, ESPN compiled a list of the top 100 plays in college football history; Young's game-winning touchdown in the 2006 Rose Bowl ranked #5.[20]

The University of Texas retired Young's #10 jersey during the 2008 season-opening football game on August 30, 2008.[2][21]

Statistics

Year Passing Rushing

Cmp Att Yds TD Int Att Yds Avg TD

2003 84 143 1,155 6 7 135 998 7.4 11

2004 148 250 1,849 12 11 167 1,079 6.5 14

2005 212 325 3,036 26 10 155 1,050 6.8 12

Totals 444 718 6,040 44 28 457 3,127 6.8 37

List of accomplishments and records

Vince Young was the first player in NCAA I-A history to pass for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards in the same season. The only other player to do so was Dan LeFevour of Central Michigan University.

Young owns five of the top seven single-game quarterback rushing performances in UT history: 267 yards vs Oklahoma State as a Junior; 200 yards vs USC as a Junior; 192 yards vs. Michigan as a Sophomore; 163 yards vs. Nebraska as a Freshman; 158 yards at Texas Tech as a Sophomore.

Young has six of the top 8 longest runs by a quarterback in UT history.

Young became the first player in UT history to pass and rush for 1,000 or more yards in the same season.

Young became the first quarterback in UT history to have three 100-yard rushing games (vs. Oklahoma, at Baylor, vs. Nebraska) in the same season and is tied with Ricky Williams (1995) for the third-most 100-yard games by a freshman in school history.

Young's 17 wins and 43 touchdowns accounted for in 2003–2004 were the most ever by a UT quarterback in their first two years. However, Colt McCoy surpassed both of these, accounting for 57 touchdowns and 20 wins in 2006–2007.

Young is a two-time winner of the Rose Bowl MVP award, joining Ron Dayne, Bob Schloredt, and Charles White as the only two-time winners.

He passed for 44 touchdowns (No. 4 in UT history)

Rose Bowl Record & BCS Championship Game Record – Total yards (467)

Rose Bowl Record – Touchdowns responsible for (5), tied by Mark Sanchez in 2009

Rose Bowl Record & BCS Record- Net rushing yards by a quarterback (200), broke his own record

Rose Bowl Record – Points responsible for (30), tied by Mark Sanchez in 2009

Bowl Record – Net rushing yards by a quarterback (201), surpassed by Dwight Dasher in 2009 New Orleans Bowl

BCS Record – Total yards (467), surpassed by Tim Tebow in 2009

BCS Record – Touchdowns responsible for (5), tied Matt Leinart, tied by Mark Sanchez in 2009

BCS Record – Rushing touchdowns (4), tied Dominick Davis and Ron Dayne

BCS Record – Points Scored (24), tied Dominick Davis and Ron Dayne

BCS Record & BCS Championship Game Record – Most rushing yards per attempt (10.53)

BCS Championship Game Record – Rushing yards (200)

BCS Championship Game Record – Net rushing yards by a quarterback (200)

BCS Championship Game Record – Rushing touchdowns (3), tied LenDale White in same game

BCS Championship Game Record – Pass completions (30)

BCS Championship Game Record – Passes without an interception (40)

BCS Championship Game Record – Completion percentage (75.0%)

BCS Championship Game Record – Points Scored (20), tied Peter Warrick

UT Record – Touchdown passes, season (26), tied with Chris Simms, surpassed by Colt McCoy

UT Record – Passing completion percentage, careers (61.8%), surpassed by McCoy

UT Record – Total Offense, game (506)

UT Record – Total Offense, season (4,086), surpassed by McCoy

UT Record – Total Offense, career (9,167), surpassed by McCoy

UT Record – Average gain per play, season (8.5 yards)

UT Record – Average gain per play, career (7.8 yards)

UT Record – Pass completion percentage, game (86.2%) against Colorado in 2005, surpassed by McCoy

UT Record – Pass completion percentage, career (61.8%) (min 100 attempts), surpassed by McCoy in 2009

UT Record – Wins by a quarterback, Career (30), surpassed by McCoy

UT Record – Longest run by a Quarterback (80 yards)

UT Record – Most rushing yards by a Quarterback, game (267), against Oklahoma State, broke his own record previously set against Michigan

UT Record – Most rushing yards by a Quarterback, career (3,127), also 5th best by any UT player

UT Record – Most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback, season (14), surpassed by Sam Ehlinger in 2018

UT Record – Most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback, career (37), also 4th best by any UT player

UT Record – Most games rushing and passing for more than 100 yards, career (5 games)

UT Record – Most 300 yard total offense games, season (6), tied by and then surpassed by McCoy

UT Record – Most 300 yard total offense games, career (10), surpassed by McCoy

UT Record – Most 400 yard total offense games, season (2), tied by and then surpassed by McCoy

UT Record – Most 400 yard total offense games, career (4)

UT Record – Most 500 yard total offense games, season (1)

UT Record – Most 500 yard total offense games, career (1)

UT Record – Most Offensive yards, game (506 yards), against Oklahoma State on October 29, 2005, broke his own record

UT Record – Most 100 yard rushing games by a quarterback, season (3 games), tied his own record twice

Big 12 & UT Record – Passing efficiency, season (163.9), surpassed by Sam Bradford in 2007 for Big 12 and McCoy for UT

Big 12 & UT Record – Win/loss record as a starter of 30–2 gives him a .938 winning percentage as a starting quarterback. This also ranks sixth best in NCAA Division I football history.

Big 12 & UT Record – Yards per rush, career (6.8)

In the Rose Bowl on January 4, 2006, the BCS National Championship, he completed 30 of 40 passes for 267 yards and carried the ball 19 times for 200 yards and 3 rushing touchdowns. Those 200 rushing yards set a Bowl game rushing record by a QB. He was named Rose Bowl MVP for the second time in his career. UT beat USC by the score of 41 to 38 and Vince Young ran in the winning touchdown. In this game, UT ended USC's 34-game win streak. Young's 467 total yards set a new Rose Bowl record.

College awards and honors

2006 – ESPY Award for Best Championship Performance.

2006 – ESPY Award for Best Game (2006 Rose Bowl; joint award shared between Texas and USC – accepted award along with Matt Leinart).[22][23]

2006 – Big 12 Male Athlete of the Year (for 2005–2006 scholastic year)

2006 – Manning Award winner

2006 – Rose Bowl MVP (at end of 2005 season)

2005 – BCS National Championship

2005 – The Cingular All-America Player of the Year Award

2005 – All-American Offensive Player

2005 – The Maxwell Award – College Player of the Year

2005 – Davey O'Brien National Quarterback Award

2005 – 1st Team All-Big 12 Conference honors (unanimous decision)

2005 – Rose Bowl Most Valuable Player (at end of 2004 season)[24]

2003 – Big 12 Conference Offensive Freshman of the Year

Texas Longhorns #10 retired

Professional career

Throughout the 2005 season Young had indicated that he planned to return to the University of Texas for his senior year in 2006.[25][26] The day after Texas won the BCS National Championship, Young accepted an invitation to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. When Leno asked Young whether he would stay for his senior year of college or declare for the 2006 NFL Draft, Young replied that he would discuss the matter with his pastor, his family, and coach Mack Brown. On January 8, 2006, Young announced he would enter the NFL draft, where he was expected to be drafted early in the first round.[27] Even after his Rose Bowl performance, some observers said he may have difficulty in the NFL because of his unorthodox sidearm throwing motion and the different style of play in the NFL.[28]

The Saints, who held the second overall pick, were likely to pass on drafting a high-rated quarterback after Drew Brees signed with the team as a free agent. Though Titans quarterback Steve McNair was a personal friend of Young's and favored him as his "heir apparent", Tennessee's coaches reportedly favored drafting Matt Leinart, and Young was no longer thought to be a consensus top five pick. Some had speculated that he would not even be picked in the top ten.[29]

News regarding the Wonderlic, a standardized test given to all recruits, was problematic for Young. On February 25, 2006, during the NFL Combine, it was reported that Vince scored a 6 out of a possible 50 points on his Wonderlic Test. The test is designed to measure a player's ability to learn a complex NFL playbook. Some observers believed this score would lower Young's draft selection and faulted his agent, Major Adams, for not preparing Young ahead of time with practice tests.[30]

However, on February 26, 2006, combine officials said the reported score of 6 was incorrect. According to NFL Spokesman Steve Alic, "I can tell you absolutely that the score that has been reported on the Internet is inaccurate. I spoke to the person who graded the test, and he assured me that that number was not correct."[31] The next day, the test was re-administered and Young allegedly scored a 16.[32]

Pre-draft measurables

Height Weight Arm length Hand span 40-yard dash Wonderlic

6 ft 4+5⁄8 in

(1.95 m) 228 lb

(103 kg) 33+1⁄4 in

(0.84 m) 9+1⁄8 in

(0.23 m) 4.58 s 6, 16

Wonderlic was taken at NFL Scouting Combine; others are from Texas Pro Day.[33][34]

Tennessee Titans

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