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Quarterback, Florida State, 2006–⁠10

Christian Ponder

Number: No. 7
Height: 6′3″
Hometown: Colleyville, TX
Born: Feb 25, 1988, in Dallas, Texas

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Christian Ponder played quarterback at Florida State (2006–⁠10). The Minnesota Vikings took Ponder in the first round, No. 12 overall in the 2011 NFL Draft.

Best season: 2,717; Passing yards, 2009 (Florida State, 7–⁠6)
Best game: 395 yards; At North Carolina, week 8, 2009: No. 3 passing game in FBS that week
Drafted: No. 12; Overall, 2011 NFL Draft (Minnesota Vikings)

395passing yards, best game on fileat North Carolina, 2009 5touchdown passes, best game on filevs. Georgia Tech, 2009 144rushing yards, best game on fileat Miami, 2008 2rushing touchdowns, best game on fileat NC State, 2010

Passing

Passing yards, season by season, with his team’s record

105

2,006

2,717

2,044

7–⁠69–⁠4AP 217–⁠610–⁠4AP 17

Season	Team	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Y/A	TD	Int
2007*	Florida State	8	18	44.4	105	5.8	1	2
2008*	Florida State	177	318	55.7	2,006	6.3	14	13
2009	Florida State	227	330	68.8	2,717	8.2	14	7
2010	Florida State	184	299	61.5	2,044	6.8	20	8
On file (2007–⁠10)		596	965	61.8	6,872	7.1	49	30

Rushing

Season	Team	Car	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2007*	Florida State	5	51	10.2	0	22
2008*	Florida State	119	423	3.6	4	45
2009	Florida State	72	179	2.5	2	30
2010	Florida State	100	180	1.8	4	18
On file (2007–⁠10)		296	833	2.8	10	45

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. * That team-season’s player lines are missing part of the team’s yards in our source, so these numbers may be short.

On the roster

Season	Team	No.	Pos	Ht
2007	Florida State	7	QB
2008	Florida State	7	QB
2009	Florida State	7	QB
2010	Florida State	7	QB	6′3″

As each season’s roster listed the player (CollegeFootballData). Classes before the latest listing are counted back from it; “Yr 1” is the year on file where that count can’t place a season he played (a redshirt, transfer or 2020 year); height and weight as last listed.

Game by game

2010 Florida State 12 games, 2,044 passing yards, 20 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 4	vs.Samford	W 59–⁠6	12	14	167	4	1	7
Sep 11	atOklahoma	L 17–⁠47	11	28	113	0	2	23
Sep 18	vs.BYU	W 34–⁠10	14	21	149	1	0	50
Sep 25	vs.Wake Forest	W 31–⁠0	24	37	243	2	0	11
Oct 2	atVirginia	W 34–⁠14	17	29	172	1	0	17
Oct 9	atMiami	W 45–⁠17	13	22	173	2	1	15
Oct 16	vs.Boston College	W 24–⁠19	19	31	170	2	3	−5
Oct 28	atNC State	L 24–⁠28	17	28	196	1	0	21
Nov 6	vs.North Carolina	L 35–⁠37	24	34	264	3	0	13
Nov 20	atMaryland	W 30–⁠16	16	26	170	1	1	7
Nov 27	vs.Florida	W 31–⁠7	16	24	221	3	0	18
Dec 31 ✦	vs.South Carolina	W 26–⁠17	1	5	6	0	0	3

2009 Florida State 9 games, 2,717 passing yards, 14 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 7	vs.Miami	L 34–⁠38	24	41	294	2	1	28
Sep 12	vs.Jacksonville State	W 19–⁠9	22	35	324	0	0	7
Sep 19	atBYU	W 54–⁠28	21	26	195	2	0	77
Sep 26	vs.South Florida	L 7–⁠17	25	37	269	0	0	−29
Oct 3	atBoston College	L 21–⁠28	29	42	340	0	0	23
Oct 10	vs.Georgia Tech	L 44–⁠49	26	36	359	5	0	17
Oct 22	atNorth Carolina	W 30–⁠27	33	40	395	3	0	14
Oct 31	vs.NC State	W 45–⁠42	26	40	277	1	2	29
Nov 7	atClemson	L 24–⁠40	21	33	264	1	4	13

2008 Florida State 13 games, 2,006 passing yards, 14 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 6	vs.Western Carolina	W 69–⁠0	11	17	196	3	0	39
Sep 13	vs.Chattanooga	W 46–⁠7	13	22	180	3	0	9
Sep 20	vs.Wake Forest	L 3–⁠12	6	18	52	0	3	27
Sep 27	vs.Colorado	W 39–⁠21	10	22	119	0	1	43
Oct 4	atMiami	W 41–⁠39	14	31	159	1	2	144
Oct 16	atNC State	W 26–⁠17	23	35	254	1	0	29
Oct 25	vs.Virginia Tech	W 30–⁠20	11	19	159	1	0	−13
Nov 1	atGeorgia Tech	L 28–⁠31	16	27	149	1	1	−19
Nov 8	vs.Clemson	W 41–⁠27	16	27	153	1	1	30
Nov 15	vs.Boston College	L 17–⁠27	15	31	183	0	3	20
Nov 22	atMaryland	W 37–⁠3	19	24	143	1	0	81
Nov 29	vs.Florida	L 15–⁠45	5	14	60	0	2	14
Dec 27 ✦	vs.Wisconsin	W 42–⁠13	18	31	199	2	0	19

2007 Florida State 1 game, 105 passing yards, 1 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Nov 10	atVirginia Tech	L 21–⁠40	8	18	105	1	2	51

Box scores from CollegeFootballData, 2004 on. ✦ postseason; ★ a career high on file.

Before the draft

MVP of the 2011 Senior Bowl.

Drill	Combine 2011
Height	6′2″
Weight	229 lb
Arm length	32⅛″
Hand size	10¼″
Wingspan	77″^W
40-yard dash	4.72 s
10-yard split	1.64 s^W
Vertical jump	34″
Broad jump	9′8″
3-cone drill	6.85 s
20-yard shuttle	4.09 s

Unmarked: Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data); W: Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Rosters and honors: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

In the NFL

4 seasons, 38 games with a stat; latest team: San Francisco 49ers.

Season	Team	G	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
2011	Minnesota Vikings	11	158	291	1,853	13	13	219
2012	Minnesota Vikings	16	300	483	2,935	18	12	253
2013	Minnesota Vikings	9	152	239	1,648	7	9	151
2014	Minnesota Vikings	2	22	44	222	0	2	16
NFL career		38	632	1,057	6,658	38	36	639

Regular seasons, from nflverse (CC BY 4.0), matched to him by his draft pick and college (Player ids: DynastyProcess (GPL-3.0)). G counts games in which the player recorded a stat.

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At a glance

Career highs