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Quarterback, LSU, 2003–⁠06

JaMarcus Russell

Hometown: Mobile, AL

Wikipedia readers: about 26,394 a month over the past year

JaMarcus Russell played quarterback at LSU (2003–⁠06). He won the 2006 Manning Award. The Oakland Raiders took Russell first overall in the 2007 NFL Draft.

Best season: 3,127; Passing yards, 2006 (LSU, 11–⁠2)
Drafted: No. 1; Overall, 2007 NFL Draft (Oakland Raiders)

332passing yards, career highvs. Notre Dame, 2006 3touchdown passes, career highfive times; last vs. Ole Miss, 2006

Honors

Passing

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

1,053

2,443

3,127

9–⁠3AP 1611–⁠2AP 611–⁠2AP 3

Season	Team	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Y/A	TD	Int
2004	LSU	73	144	50.7	1,053	7.3	9	4
2005	LSU	188	311	60.5	2,443	7.9	15	9
2006	LSU	232	344	67.4	3,127	9.1	28	8
Career		493	799	61.7	6,623	8.3	52	21

Rushing

Season	Team	Car	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2004	LSU	26	−41	−1.6	1	13
2005	LSU	61	−22	−0.4	2	22
2006	LSU	52	143	2.8	1	34
Career		139	80	0.6	4	34

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).

Game by game

2006 LSU 13 games, 3,127 passing yards, 28 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 2	vs.Louisiana	W 45–⁠3	13	17	253	3	0	–
Sep 9	vs.Arizona	W 45–⁠3	13	20	196	2	1	23
Sep 16	atAuburn	L 3–⁠7	20	37	267	0	0	15
Sep 23	vs.Tulane	W 49–⁠7	17	23	198	2	0	−7
Sep 30	vs.Mississippi State	W 48–⁠17	18	20	330	3	0	−9
Oct 7	atFlorida	L 10–⁠23	24	41	228	1	3	19
Oct 14	vs.Kentucky	W 49–⁠0	15	18	226	2	0	6
Oct 21	vs.Fresno State	W 38–⁠6	15	19	210	2	0	−23
Nov 4	atTennessee	W 28–⁠24	24	36	247	3	3	71
Nov 11	vs.Alabama	W 28–⁠14	18	21	207	3	0	36
Nov 18	vs.Ole Miss	W 23–⁠20	20	36	223	3	0	2
Nov 24	atArkansas	W 31–⁠26	14	22	210	2	0	−6
Jan 3 ✦	vs.Notre Dame	W 41–⁠14	21	34	332	2	1	16

2005 LSU 12 games, 2,443 passing yards, 15 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 10	atArizona State	W 35–⁠31	16	29	232	1	0	−41
Sep 26	vs.Tennessee	L 27–⁠30	14	28	158	0	1	−7
Oct 1	atMississippi State	W 37–⁠7	21	24	205	2	0	−5
Oct 8	atVanderbilt	W 34–⁠6	21	32	285	2	1	−2
Oct 15	vs.Florida	W 21–⁠17	14	22	236	2	2	−40
Oct 22	vs.Auburn	W 20–⁠17	16	33	190	1	0	24
Oct 29	vs.North Texas	W 56–⁠3	17	21	244	1	1	14
Nov 5	vs.App State	W 24–⁠0	16	22	208	2	0	42
Nov 12	atAlabama	W 16–⁠13	16	30	229	1	0	−7
Nov 19	atOle Miss	W 40–⁠7	13	22	142	2	1	7
Nov 25	vs.Arkansas	W 19–⁠17	13	29	194	1	2	14
Dec 3	vs.Georgia	L 14–⁠34	11	19	120	0	1	−21

2004 LSU 10 games, 1,053 passing yards, 9 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 4	vs.Oregon State	W 22–⁠21	9	26	145	2	0	1
Sep 11	vs.Arkansas State	W 53–⁠3	7	11	151	2	0	2
Sep 18	atAuburn	L 9–⁠10	8	19	123	0	1	−11
Sep 25	vs.Mississippi State	W 51–⁠0	9	12	137	1	0	26
Oct 2	atGeorgia	L 16–⁠45	9	17	131	1	0	−23
Oct 9	atFlorida	W 24–⁠21	6	10	56	0	2	−8
Oct 30	vs.Vanderbilt	W 24–⁠7	2	5	24	0	0	13
Nov 13	vs.Alabama	W 26–⁠10	5	10	92	1	0	−25
Nov 20	vs.Ole Miss	W 27–⁠24	6	19	66	0	1	−20
Jan 1 ✦	vs.Iowa	L 25–⁠30	12	15	128	2	0	4

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

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2007	Pro day 2007
Height	6′5½″	6′5½″^W
Weight	265 lb	265 lb^W
Arm length	35″	32¾″^W
Hand size	9⅝″	9⅞″^W
40-yard dash		4.72 s^W
10-yard split		1.67 s^W
Vertical jump		31″^W

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

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