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Quarterback, Purdue, 1997–2000
Drew Brees
- Born
- Jan 15, 1979, in Austin, Texas
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Drew Brees played quarterback at Purdue (1997–2000). He won the 2000 Maxwell Award. He finished third in the 2000 Heisman vote. The San Diego Chargers took Brees in round 2, No. 32 overall in the 2001 NFL Draft.
At a glance
Honors
- 1998, 2000Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year
- 1998, 1999, 2000First-team All-Big Ten
- 1999, 2000National leader in total offense
- 1999Fourth in the Heisman vote
- 2000Maxwell Award
- 2000Academic All-America Team Member of the Year
- 2000Chicago Tribune Silver Football
- 2000National leader in total offense per game (358.1)
- 2000Third in the Heisman vote
- 2013Big Ten Dungy–Thompson Humanitarian Award
Team titles: Big Ten champions, 2000
All-America: AP third team 1999 and 2000
Players of the year, conference and regional honors: Wikipedia’s lists (CC BY-SA), each linked from its honor.
Season by season, from Wikipedia
| Season | Passing | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cmp | Att | Pct | Yds | TD | Int | |
| 1997 | 19 | 43 | 44.2 | 232 | 0 | 1 |
| 1998 | 361 | 569 | 63.4 | 3,983 | 39 | 20 |
| 1999 | 337 | 554 | 60.8 | 3,909 | 25 | 12 |
| 2000 | 309 | 512 | 60.4 | 3,668 | 26 | 12 |
| Career | 1,026 | 1,678 | 11,792 | 90 | 45 | |
From the college statistics table in Brees’s Wikipedia article (Drew Brees, CC BY-SA), season by season as the article gives them, bowls included where it counts them. Our own records come from box scores, which start in 2004 (tackles in 2016, kickoff returns in 2009).
The teams in those years
Our player records start in 2004; before that they hold the honors, the Heisman vote and the draft (from 1936), with college years from the player’s Wikipedia article where it gives them.
Before the draft
| Drill | Combine 2001 |
|---|---|
| Height | 6′0¼″ |
| Weight | 213 lb |
| Arm length | 31″ |
| Hand size | 10¼″ |
| 40-yard dash | 4.83 s |
| 10-yard split | 1.66 s |
| Vertical jump | 32″ |
| Broad jump | 8′9″ |
| 3-cone drill | 7.09 s |
| 20-yard shuttle | 4.21 s |
Pre-draft measurables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
In the NFL
Pro Bowls: 13 (2004, 2006, 2008–14, 2016–19) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 2006 · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 4 (2008–09, 2011, 2018)
All-Pro teams: AP first team 2006; AP second team 2008–09, 2011, 2018; Pro Football Writers first team 2006; Sporting News first team 2006, 2008–09, 2018.
Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
Books
Books: Open Library (CC0); most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.
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