Tim Couch
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| Birth name: | Timothy Scott Couch | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth: | July 31, 1977 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Hyden, Kentucky, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 222 lb (101 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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| High school: | Hyden (KY) Leslie County | ||||||||||||||
| College: | Kentucky | ||||||||||||||
| NFL Draft: | 1999 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1 | ||||||||||||||
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| Pass attempts: | 1,714 |
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| Pass completions: | 1,025 |
| Percentage: | 59.8 |
| TD–INT: | 64–67 |
| Passing yards: | 11,131 |
| Passer rating: | 75.1 |
| Player stats at NFL.com | |
Timothy Scott Couch (born July 31, 1977) is a former American college and professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons. He played college football for the University of Kentucky and earned All-America honors. He was selected first overall by the reactivated Cleveland Browns in the 1999 NFL Draft.
Couch threw for over 11,000 passing yards during his NFL career and helped the Browns qualify for the postseason for the first time since their return to the NFL as an expansion team, but he was unable to duplicate his college success, and his playing career ended after five injury-plagued seasons.
Couch was born in Hyden, Kentucky. As a prep quarterback at Leslie County High School in Leslie County, he set a number of national high school records: most pass completions (872), passing yardage (12,104), touchdown passes (132), and passing percentage for a season (75.1). After his senior season in 1995, he was the recipient of Kentucky's "Mr. Football" award. ESPN ranked Couch as the sixth-best high school athlete ever. Couch also starred on the Leslie County High School basketball varsity team. He scored 35 points per game as a junior, which was the highest average in the state. Couch finished his high school career with 3,023 points.
Couch attended the University of Kentucky, where he played for the Kentucky Wildcats football team from 1996 to 1998. During his 1996 freshman year under head coach Bill Curry, he split time as the starting quarterback with Billy Jack Haskins. Curry was fired after a 1-6 start that season, and replacement Hal Mumme announced early that Couch would be the starter in his new pass-oriented air raid offense. In 1997, Couch set several school records as the previously anemic Kentucky offense topped national offensive rankings and finished 5-6 on the season, including a win over No. 20 Alabama. During the 1998 season, Couch led Kentucky to seven wins (including a win on the road at No. 21 LSU) and a spot in the Outback Bowl (in which Couch completed 30 of 48 passes for 336 yards and 2 touchdowns, though Kentucky lost to Penn State 26-14). Following his junior season in 1998, Couch announced he would leave Kentucky to enter the NFL draft early.
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