Jesse Palmer
Jesse Palmer in November 2010.
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| Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | October 5, 1978 | ||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Toronto, Ontario | ||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||
| Weight: | 219 lb (99 kg) | ||||||||||
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| High school: | Ottawa (ON) St. Pius X | ||||||||||
| College: | Florida | ||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 2001 / Round: 4 / Pick: 125 | ||||||||||
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| Player stats at PFR | |||||||||||
| Pass attempts: | 120 |
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| Completions: | 63 |
| Passing yards: | 562 |
| TD-INT: | 3-4 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
Jesse James Palmer (born October 5, 1978) is a Canadian sports commentator and former college and professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons in the early 2000s. Palmer played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played professionally for the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers in the NFL before spending half of the 2006 season with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Palmer was cast in 2004 as the bachelor on the fifth season of the reality television series The Bachelor. He is now a college football analyst for ESPN/ABC in the United States and a football analyst for TSN in Canada.
Palmer was born in Toronto, Ontario, and raised in Nepean, Ontario, a suburb of Ottawa. He attended both Confederation and St. Pius X high schools, although he played all of his amateur football on teams in the Ontario Minor Football Association and most importantly with the Myers Riders Football Club in Ottawa.
His father, Bill Palmer, played for the Ottawa Rough Riders. His mother, Susan, was a prominent fashion and print model, co-founder of Barrett Palmer Models and former owner of the original ITM International Top Models, a modeling agency and training centre located in Ottawa (eventually became IMM International Model Management).
Palmer accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team from 1997 to 2000.
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