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Quarterback, Oregon, 2003–⁠07

Dennis Dixon

Born: Jan 11, 1985

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Dennis Dixon played quarterback at Oregon (2003–⁠07). He finished fifth in the 2007 Heisman vote. The Pittsburgh Steelers took Dixon in round 5, No. 156 overall in the 2008 NFL Draft.

Best season: 2,143; Passing yards, 2006 (Oregon, 7–⁠6)
Heisman vote: 5th; In the 2007 vote
Drafted: No. 156; Round 5, 2008 NFL Draft (Pittsburgh Steelers)

374passing yards, best game on fileat Stanford, 2007 4touchdown passes, best game on filetwice; last vs. Arizona State, 2007 141rushing yards, best game on filevs. Houston, 2007

Honors

Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.

Passing

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

580

2,143

2,136

5–⁠610–⁠2AP 127–⁠69–⁠4AP 23

Season	Team	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Y/A	TD	Int
2004	Oregon	6	15	40.0	73	4.9	0	0
2005‡	Oregon	53	82	64.6	580	7.1	5	3
2006	Oregon	197	322	61.2	2,143	6.7	12	14
2007	Oregon	172	254	67.7	2,136	8.4	20	4
On file (2004–⁠07)		428	673	63.6	4,932	7.3	37	21

Rushing

Season	Team	Car	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2004	Oregon	10	40	4.0	0	12
2005‡	Oregon	43	100	2.3	1	13
2006	Oregon	94	442	4.7	2	34
2007	Oregon	105	583	5.6	9	80
On file (2004–⁠07)		252	1,165	4.6	12	80

Season lines from CollegeFootballData, regular season and bowls. Every season here is summed from the game box scores (the source has no season lines for them; a game missing from the box scores is missing here). ‡ Short by two games in 2005 (Sep 17 vs. Fresno State; Nov 13 at Washington State): the source has no box score for them.

Game by game

2007 Oregon 10 games, 2,136 passing yards, 20 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 1	vs.Houston	W 48–⁠27	9	15	134	2	0	141
Sep 8	atMichigan	W 39–⁠7	16	25	292	3	0	76
Sep 15	vs.Fresno State	W 52–⁠21	14	20	139	2	0	59
Sep 22	atStanford	W 55–⁠31	28	37	374	4	0	8
Sep 29	vs.California	L 24–⁠31	31	44	306	1	2	17
Oct 13	vs.Washington State	W 53–⁠7	21	28	287	3	0	16
Oct 20	atWashington	W 55–⁠34	19	30	196	1	1	99
Oct 27	vs.USC	W 24–⁠17	16	25	157	0	0	76
Nov 3	vs.Arizona State	W 35–⁠23	13	22	189	4	0	57
Nov 15	atArizona	L 24–⁠34	5	8	62	0	1	34

2006 Oregon 12 games, 2,143 passing yards, 12 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 2	vs.Stanford	W 48–⁠10	21	30	236	1	0	17
Sep 9	atFresno State	W 31–⁠24	23	36	240	0	0	32
Sep 16	vs.Oklahoma	W 34–⁠33	26	41	341	2	2	34
Sep 30	atArizona State	W 48–⁠13	19	30	215	3	0	31
Oct 7	atCalifornia	L 24–⁠45	20	35	263	2	3	45
Oct 14	vs.UCLA	W 30–⁠20	10	17	144	2	0	69
Oct 21	atWashington State	L 23–⁠34	12	20	105	0	2	10
Oct 28	vs.Portland State	W 55–⁠12	13	23	150	1	0	42
Nov 4	vs.Washington	W 34–⁠14	14	25	109	0	2	53
Nov 11	atUSC	L 10–⁠35	15	23	130	0	1	24
Nov 18	vs.Arizona	L 10–⁠37	14	22	88	0	3	34
Dec 21 ✦	vs.BYU	L 8–⁠38	10	20	122	1	1	51

2005 Oregon 10 games, 580 passing yards, 5 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 1	atHouston	W 38–⁠24	0	2	0	0	1	23
Sep 10	vs.Montana	W 47–⁠14	1	1	39	1	0	16
Sep 24	vs.USC	L 13–⁠45	6	7	29	0	1	21
Oct 1	atStanford	W 44–⁠20	7	8	63	0	0	5
Oct 8	atArizona State	W 31–⁠17	–	–	–	–	–	2
Oct 15	vs.Washington	W 45–⁠21	1	2	−1	0	0	–
Oct 22	atArizona	W 28–⁠21	–	–	–	–	–	−1
Nov 5	vs.California	W 27–⁠20	15	26	139	1	1	8
Nov 19	vs.Oregon State	W 56–⁠14	12	17	204	3	0	21
Dec 29 ✦	vs.Oklahoma	L 14–⁠17	11	19	107	0	0	5

No box score in the source for Sep 17 vs. Fresno State; Nov 13 at Washington State, so those games are not listed.

2004 Oregon 5 games, 40 rushing yards

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	Rush
Sep 11	vs.Indiana	L 24–⁠30	0	1	0	4
Sep 18	atOklahoma	L 7–⁠31	1	2	2	4
Sep 25	vs.Idaho	W 48–⁠10	5	8	71	14
Oct 9	atWashington State	W 41–⁠38	0	1	0	–
Nov 20	atOregon State	L 21–⁠50	0	3	0	18

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

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2008
Height	6′3¼″
Weight	195 lb
Arm length	36¼″
Hand size	9¾″

Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).

In the NFL

3 seasons, 4 games with a stat; latest team: Arizona Cardinals.

Season	Team	G	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
2008	Pittsburgh Steelers	1	1	1	3	0	0	−3
2009	Pittsburgh Steelers	1	12	26	145	1	1	27
2010	Pittsburgh Steelers	2	22	32	254	0	1	32
NFL career		4	35	59	402	1	2	56

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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