Danny Wuerffel: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|American football player (born 1974)}}

{{Use American English|date=June 2023}}

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| caption = Wuerffel in 2019

* [[Draddy Trophy]] (1996)

* [[Sporting News College Football Player of the Year|''SN'' Player of the Year]] (1996)

* Consensus [[College Football All-America Team|All-American]] ([[1996 College Football All-America Team|1996]])

* Second-team All-American ([[1995 College Football All-America Team|1995]])

===College statistics===

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==Professional career==

Wuerffel was considered a "marginal" prospect for the [[1997 NFL Draft]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/1997/04/21/ditka-ordains-wuerffel-a-saint/ | title=Ditka Ordains Wuerffel a Saint | date=21 April 1997 }}</ref> As such, the New Orleans Saints selected Wuerffel in the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft as the third quarterback selected in the draft.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1997 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1997/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> He was selected to potentially serve as the number three quarterback, as the team already had [[Heath Shuler]] and [[Jim Everett]] on the roster under new head coach [[Mike Ditka]]. He played for the Saints for three seasons from {{NFL Year|1997}} to {{NFL Year|1999}}.<ref name=nflprofile>National Football League, Historical Players, [http://www.nfl.com/players/dannywuerffel/profile?id=WUE563610 Danny Wuerffel]. Retrieved April 7, 2011.</ref> Wuerffel spent the offseason before the [[2000 NFL season]] with the Rhein Fire in [[NFL Europa]], where he led the team to a league championship and was named [[Most Valuable Player|MVP]] of World Bowl 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.footballdb.com/teams/nfle/rhein-fire/stats/2000 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111120142440/http://footballdb.com/teams/nfle/rhein-fire/stats/2000 |archive-date=2011-11-20 |title=2000 Rhein Fire Stats - The Football Database}}</ref> He spent single seasons as a backup with the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears in 2000 and 2001. Wuerffel was drafted by the [[Houston Texans]] in the [[2002 NFL Expansion Draft]], only to be traded to the [[Washington Redskins]] a week later, reuniting him with college coach Steve Spurrier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://a.espncdn.com/nfl/columns/pasquarelli_len/1340816.html|title=Texans deal Wuerffel to 'Skins in first-ever trade|author=Len Pasquarelli|author-link=Len Pasquarelli|work=[[ESPN]]|access-date=September 20, 2016|date=February 26, 2002}}</ref> Wuerffel started several games that season, alternating with fellow Florida Gator alumnus [[Shane Matthews]], but was released by the team before the 2003 season, much to the chagrin of Spurrier.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Low|first=Chris|date=December 11, 2012|title=Why did Steve Spurrier fail in NFL?|work=ESPN|url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/8735835/college-football-unhealthy-culture-contributed-steve-spurrier-failure-nfl|access-date=December 16, 2020}}</ref>

 

 

==External links==

* {{Official website|http://www.DannyWuerffel.com/}}

* {{College Football HoF|2355}}

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