Jim Kelly, 2010
Photo: Staff Sgt. Corenthia Fennell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Quarterback, Miami, 1979–⁠82

Jim Kelly

Lettered 1979–⁠82 (school media guide)

Born
Feb 14, 1960, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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Jim Kelly played quarterback at Miami (1979–⁠82). The Buffalo Bills took Kelly in the first round, No. 14 overall in the 1983 NFL Draft.

Honors

Season by season, from Wikipedia

SeasonGamesPassing
GAttCmpPctYdsTDIntRtg
1979111044846.272156108.7
19801220610952.91,519117125.7
19811128516859.42,4031414136.2
19823815163.058531133.4
Career376763765,2283328

From the college statistics table in Kelly’s Wikipedia article (Jim Kelly, 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.

In the NFL

Pro Bowls: 5 (1987–⁠88, 1990–⁠92) · First-team All-Pro (AP): 1991 · Second-team All-Pro (AP): 1992

All-Pro teams: AP first team 1991; AP second team 1992; Pro Football Writers first team 1991; Sporting News first team 1991; NEA first team 1991; Pro Football Weekly first team 1991; and 1 more.

Pro Bowls and All-Pro teams by NFL season: rosters and honors, Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Other pro football

YearsLeagueTeam
1984–⁠85USFLHouston Gamblers

Leagues other than the NFL, from the infobox of his Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA), as it names the teams.

Books

Books: Open Library (CC0); most-reissued first, each linked to its page there.

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