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| Date of birth | June 26 1976 |
| Place of birth | Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight | 230 pounds (104 kg) |
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| College | Marshall |
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| Career player statistics (if any) | |
| TD-INT | 102-64 |
| Passing yards | 17,823 |
| QB Rating | 90.1 RTG |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
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James Chadwick "Chad" Pennington (born June 26, 1976) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League for 11 years. He is currently a color analyst for NFL telecasts on Fox, though he plans to return to playing after recovering from an injury. He was drafted by the New York Jets in the first round, as the eighteenth overall selection in the 2000 NFL Draft.
Pennington is the only player to win AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year Award twice, receiving the honor in 2006 and 2008. He is also the only quarterback other than Tom Brady to lead his team to an AFC East title between 2002 and 2019, doing so with the 2002 Jets and the 2008 Dolphins. At the time of his retirement, Pennington was the NFL's all-time leader in career completion percentage at 66.0%, which is the second-highest behind Drew Brees.[1]
College career[]
Originally the Thundering Herd's fourth-string quarterback in 1995 and slated to be redshirted, Pennington led Marshall to the 1995 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, which Marshall lost to Montana, 22–20. The following year, Pennington was redshirted in favor of Eric Kresser, a transfer from the Florida Gators, who guided the Herd's return to the I-AA Championship game in 1996. Pennington returned to play in 1997 as Marshall moved from Division I-AA to Division I-A. He led Marshall to the school's first bowl game victory in a 48–29 rout of Louisville in the 1998 Motor City Bowl. Pennington was named the game's MVP. In his senior year (1999), Marshall went undefeated at 13–0 as Pennington led the team to its third consecutive Mid-American Conference championship. Pennington and Marshall returned to Pontiac, Michigan for the 1999 Motor City Bowl, where they won, 21–3, over BYU, capping Pennington's undefeated senior season.
Pennington set school records in several passing categories. He finished fifth in 1999 Heisman Trophy voting. Randy Moss was Pennington's top receiver at Marshall. Pennington finished his career at Marshall with 1,026 of 1,619 completions for 13,423 yards and 115 touchdowns with only 45 interceptions.[2]
In addition to his success on the football field, Pennington excelled academically, graduating with a degree in journalism, a 3.83 grade point average and becoming a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. He wrote frequently for Marshall's newspaper The Parthenon and was a broadcaster for the school's radio station WMUL, although he used a pseudonym on air so as not to be distracting.[3]
References[]
- ↑ NFL Career Pass Completion % Leaders. Pro Football Reference.
- ↑ Marshall Record Book
- ↑ Volin, Ben. "Chad Pennington's intellectual upbringing delivers big dividends", September 4, 2008.
External links[]
- Chad Pennington article at Wikipedia
