Rodney Peete
Peete in 2010
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| Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth: | March 16, 1966 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Mesa, Arizona | ||||||||||||||
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| College: | USC | ||||||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1989 / Round: 6 / Pick: 141 | ||||||||||||||
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| Pass attempts: | 2,346 |
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| Pass completions: | 1,344 |
| Percentage: | 57.3 |
| TD–INT: | 76–92 |
| Passing yards: | 16,338 |
| Passer rating: | 73.3 |
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Rodney Peete (born March 16, 1966) is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 16 years. He played college football for the USC Trojans football team. He retired from playing in 2004 and is now in broadcasting.
Peete was born in Mesa, Arizona. He attended Sahuaro High School in Tucson, as a freshman, sophomore, and junior, and went to Shawnee Mission South High School in Overland Park, Kansas, for his senior year. He was a three-year letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. In football, he was named the Arizona High School Player of the Year as a junior. Peete was drafted in the 30th round (722nd overall) by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1984 Major League Baseball Draft. He did not sign and elected to attend college at the University of Southern California. He is the son of Willie Peete, former running backs coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chicago Bears. His brother is NFL coach Skip Peete.
Peete was the first player ever from USC to win the Johnny Unitas Award as the nation's best senior quarterback (since earned by Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart as well). In that senior year, he also finished second to Barry Sanders in the voting for the Heisman Trophy. His USC teams would win both head-to-head matchups in the UCLA-USC rivalry against Troy Aikman's UCLA teams. The 1988 UCLA-USC game was notable in that Peete was stricken with measles the week before the game and had been hospitalized. He led USC to the 1988 and 1989 Rose Bowl games.
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