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Position: | Quarterback | ||||||||
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Date of birth: | February 11, 1974 | ||||||||
Place of birth: | Orangeburg, South Carolina | ||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||
Weight: | 225 lb (102 kg) | ||||||||
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High school: | Sumter (SC) | ||||||||
College: | Penn State | ||||||||
NFL Draft: | 1997 / Round: 7 / Pick: 234 | ||||||||
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Player stats at ArenaFan.com |
Passing yards: | 1 |
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Touchdowns: | 0 |
QB rating: | 56.2 |
Player stats at NFL.com |
Comp. / Att.: | 20 / 40 |
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Passing yards: | 280 |
TD-INT: | 6-3 |
QB Rating: | 79-17 |
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Wallace Herman "Wally" Richardson (born February 11, 1974) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League with 1 career passing yard. He was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the seventh round of the 1997 NFL Draft. He started at QB for the XFL's NY/NJ Hitmen. He played college football at Penn State.
Upon his retirement from professional football, Richardson joined Penn State’s Morgan Academic Support Center for Student-Athletes, first as a graduate assistant in 2001 and then as an academic counselor from 2003-07. From 2007-11, Richardson served as the associate director of the Rankin Smith Student-Athlete Service Center at the University of Georgia, working with members of the football, women’s volleyball and equestrian teams. He was named associate director of football academic support at the University of North Carolina before the 2011 football season.
In April 2013, Richardson was named director of the Penn State Football Letterman’s Club, an organization of more than 1,500 former Penn State football players and student managers.