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Quarterback, Western Michigan, 2005–⁠09

Tim Hiller

Number: No. 3
Height: 6′5″
Hometown: Orrville, OH

Wikipedia readers: about 149 a month over the past year

Tim Hiller played quarterback at Western Michigan (2005–⁠09). He won the 2009 Wuerffel Trophy.

Best season: 3,725; Passing yards, 2008 (Western Michigan, 9–⁠4)
Best game: 367 yards; At Iowa, week 12, 2007: No. 2 passing game in FBS that week

471passing yards, career highat Central Michigan, 2008 5touchdown passes, career hightwice; last vs. Tennessee Tech, 2008

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

1,334

3,021

3,725

3,249

7–⁠45–⁠79–⁠45–⁠7

Season	Team	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Y/A	TD	Int
2005*	Western Michigan	98	150	65.3	1,334	8.9	20	3
2007*	Western Michigan	267	421	63.4	3,021	7.2	20	15
2008*	Western Michigan	339	522	64.9	3,725	7.1	36	10
2009	Western Michigan	309	514	60.1	3,249	6.3	23	13
Career		1,013	1,607	63.0	11,329	7.0	99	41

Rushing

Season	Team	Car	Yds	Avg	TD	Long
2005*	Western Michigan	38	59	1.6	1	13
2007*	Western Michigan	50	−69	−1.4	2	12
2008*	Western Michigan	38	2	0.1	1	39
2009	Western Michigan	39	−101	−2.6	0	22
Career		165	−109	−0.7	4	39

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
2005	Western Michigan	3	QB
2006	Western Michigan	3	QB
2007	Western Michigan	3	QB
2008	Western Michigan	3	QB
2009	Western Michigan	3	QB	6′5″

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

2009 Western Michigan 12 games, 3,249 passing yards, 23 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 5	atMichigan	L 7–⁠31	22	38	259	1	2	−13
Sep 12	atIndiana	L 19–⁠23	28	43	266	1	0	−14
Sep 19	vs.Miami (OH)	W 48–⁠26	17	29	185	4	0	−24
Sep 26	vs.Hofstra	W 24–⁠10	34	43	338	2	1	2
Oct 3	atNorthern Illinois	L 3–⁠38	18	35	176	0	3	−3
Oct 10	atToledo	W 58–⁠26	16	26	270	3	0	23
Oct 17	vs.Central Michigan	L 23–⁠34	40	66	410	2	1	−14
Oct 24	vs.Buffalo	W 34–⁠31	34	55	350	2	0	−6
Oct 31	atKent State	L 14–⁠26	31	49	255	2	1	−30
Nov 7	atMichigan State	L 14–⁠49	15	37	111	1	0	−23
Nov 14	atEastern Michigan	W 35–⁠14	21	31	275	4	1	0
Nov 24	vs.Ball State	L 17–⁠22	33	62	354	1	4	1

2008 Western Michigan 13 games, 3,725 passing yards, 36 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Aug 30	atNebraska	L 24–⁠47	30	49	342	2	1	−29
Sep 6	vs.Northern Illinois	W 29–⁠26	21	30	186	3	0	11
Sep 13	atIdaho	W 51–⁠28	23	31	241	4	0	1
Sep 20	vs.Tennessee Tech	W 41–⁠7	27	31	333	5	1	8
Sep 27	atTemple	W 7–⁠3	26	42	252	1	1	0
Oct 4	vs.Ohio	W 41–⁠20	24	37	347	4	1	51
Oct 11	atBuffalo	W 34–⁠28	42	63	345	4	1	−7
Oct 18	atCentral Michigan	L 28–⁠38	38	53	471	2	0	−5
Nov 1	vs.Eastern Michigan	W 31–⁠10	24	36	339	3	0	−10
Nov 8	vs.Illinois	W 23–⁠17	28	40	301	2	0	−8
Nov 15	vs.Toledo	W 27–⁠17	22	36	225	3	1	–
Nov 25	atBall State	L 22–⁠45	15	32	145	1	2	−10
Dec 30 ✦	vs.Rice	L 14–⁠38	19	42	198	2	2	–

2007 Western Michigan 12 games, 3,021 passing yards, 20 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Sep 1	atWest Virginia	L 24–⁠62	16	25	160	0	2	3
Sep 8	vs.Indiana	L 27–⁠37	28	51	343	3	1	−24
Sep 15	atMissouri	L 24–⁠52	30	43	240	1	2	−18
Sep 22	vs.Central Connecticut	W 51–⁠14	17	27	140	2	1	16
Sep 29	atToledo	W 42–⁠28	21	29	229	3	1	9
Oct 6	vs.Akron	L 38–⁠39	27	40	375	3	0	−14
Oct 13	atNorthern Illinois	W 17–⁠13	20	29	226	1	1	−20
Oct 20	vs.Ball State	L 23–⁠27	21	38	237	1	3	−15
Oct 27	atEastern Michigan	L 2–⁠19	10	18	117	0	2	−7
Nov 6	vs.Central Michigan	L 31–⁠34	27	37	311	2	1	1
Nov 17	atIowa	W 28–⁠19	26	45	367	3	0	4
Nov 24	vs.Temple	W 16–⁠3	24	39	276	1	1	−4

2005 Western Michigan 7 games, 1,334 passing yards, 20 TD

Date	Opponent	Result	Cmp	Att	Yds	TD	Int	Rush
Oct 1	vs.Buffalo	W 31–⁠21	3	7	28	2	0	1
Oct 8	vs.Ball State	L 57–⁠60	20	27	308	5	1	−7
Oct 22	atBowling Green	W 45–⁠14	16	25	258	3	0	38
Oct 29	vs.Kent State	W 44–⁠14	19	29	246	2	2	26
Nov 5	vs.Eastern Michigan	W 44–⁠36	23	31	243	4	0	−2
Nov 12	vs.Central Michigan	W 31–⁠24	16	29	239	4	0	−7
Nov 23	atNorthern Illinois	L 7–⁠42	1	2	12	0	0	10

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

Before the draft

Drill	Combine 2010	Combine or pro day 2010
Height	6′4″
Weight	229 lb
Arm length	31¼″
Hand size	9⅛″
40-yard dash	4.97 s
10-yard split		1.69 s
Vertical jump	32½″
Broad jump	9′10″
Bench press	18 reps
3-cone drill	7.10 s
20-yard shuttle	4.54 s

Combine or pro day: the source doesn’t say which. Combine and pro day results compiled by array-carpenter (nfl-draft-data).

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At a glance

Career highs