Chris Weinke
Chris Weinke was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States on July 31st, 1972 and is the Football Player. At the age of 52, Chris Weinke biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Christopher Jon Weinke (born July 31, 1972) is an American football coach and former player.
He played quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles for six years as a member of the minor league baseball system for six years.
He spent the majority of his time with the Carolina Panthers, before playing in the NFL. Weinke played minor league baseball in the Toronto Blue Jays farm system from 1990 to 1996, rising to class Triple-A before deciding to attend Florida State University.
When he first started as a prep quarterback at Cretin-Derham Hall High School in 1989, head coach Bobby Bowden recruited Weinke.
Weinke called Bowden after quitting baseball, and Bowden gave him a scholarship for the 1997 recruiting class.
Since arriving in the United States, he quickly established himself as a starting quarterback, leading the team to victory in the 1999 National Championship.
He was the first person to win the Heisman Trophy in 2000, at the age of 28.
He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the 2001 NFL Draft, where he mainly served as a backup quarterback until being released in 2006.
He spent one season with the San Francisco 49ers before leaving the league after the 2007 season. Weinke won the first game of the 2001 Carolina Panthers season before losing the rest of the season.
He also has the second longest losing streak in football at 17 years, behind Dan Pastorini (21).
Despite this, Weinke is tied for fifth most rushing touchdowns by a rookie quarterback (6), behind Vince Young (7), Robert Griffin III (7), Josh Allen (8), and Cam Newton (114).
Early life
Weinke was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he played first base for the baseball team, quarterback for the football team, and was captain of the hockey team. He was voted Minnesota's top senior quarterback in the country in 1989 during his senior year in high school and was a Parade magazine and USA Today first-team All-America pick. Despite being a lifetime Miami Hurricanes fan and playing for the team at quarterback, Weinke was recruited by over seventy Division 1 colleges, including Alabama, Arizona State, Florida State, Illinois, Minnesota, Washington, and Wisconsin, but despite being a passionate Miami Hurricanes fan and starring for the team at quarterback, Jeff Walsh signed a national letter of intent and committed to play quarterback for the Florida State Seminoles of Florida State University. However, he was also an all-state baseball player and was drafted in the second round of the 1990 Major League Baseball First-Year Player draft (the 62nd player to be selected overall) by the Toronto Blue Jays. Weinke put his college career on hold and instead signed a deal to play professional baseball on the Toronto Blue Jays' Class A affiliate Myrtle Beach Blue Jays after spending four days on the FSU campus in August 1990. Bobby Bowden, the head football coach, told Weinke that if he wanted to return, he would always have a scholarship offer.
Later life
Weinke and his family lived in Austin, Texas, where he spent as a vice president in marketing and event planning for Triton Financial. In 2010, Weinke joined Pro Football Hall of Fame coach John Madden and became the head of the IMG Madden Football Academy in Bradenton, Florida. The Academy offers a complete football education program that focuses on teaching the fundamental principles of the game. During the NFL lockout, Weinke spent two hours a day with the Carolina Panthers' top draft pick Cam Newton.
College football career
Despite being just one step away from playing in the major leagues after the 1996 season, Weinke decided not to play professionally and received a scholarship at Florida State University, and he was unable to participate in the 1996 season.
Weinke began playing football in 1997, when he was 25 years old and joined the Florida State Seminoles football team as a quarterback. Weinke, a sophomore in 1998, led the Florida State Seminoles to a 9–1 record and #2 national ranking before Patrick Kerney's injury in the Virginia game forced him to the sidelines for the remainder of the season. He led the Seminoles to the school's first undefeated national championship during his junior season in 1999, defeating Michael Vick and the Virginia Tech Hokies, 46–29. Weinke led the nation in passing with 4,167 yards and won the Heisman Trophy, which is given to college football's top player, as well as the Davey O'Brien Award and the Johnny Unitas Award. He also led the Seminoles to the Orange Bowl for their third national championship game in a row, losing 13–2 to the Oklahoma Sooners. Weinke was the first player to win the Heisman Trophy at the age of 28. He finished his Florida State career with a 32–3 record and has held several FSU records, including the most passing yards in a career and the most career touchdown passes. Weinke became the seventh Seminole (and second quarterback) to have his jersey retired in 2001. He earned a degree in Sports Management and was a two-time ACC All-Academic Team winner.
Weinke was first recruited by Florida State as part of Charlie Ward's Heisman Trophy winning class and leading the Seminoles to a national championship. Both were members of the 1990 Florida State football team, but Weinke decided to play baseball before the 1990 season began.
Weinke was the first Heisman Trophy winner not to be named a consensus All-American. The consensus All-American award for quarterback in 2000 went to Oklahoma's Josh Heupel, the University of Tennessee's head football coach.
Professional football career
In the fourth round (106th overall pick) of the 2001 NFL Draft, the Carolina Panthers selected Weinke. He was the starter for the Panthers in 2001, when they finished 1–15. The Panthers' fifteen consecutive losses in 2001, at that time, was a single season low. Weinke had 36 pass attempts per game, more than any rookie in NFL history up to that point. Weinke was the Panthers' backup quarterback after the season. On October 16, 2005, he saw his first action since the 2002 season, when starter Jake Delhomme went down with an injury against the Detroit Lions. The Panthers defeated the Lions 21-20 after Weinke threw a touchdown pass to wide receiver Ricky Proehl.
During the 2006 off-season, he re-signed with Carolina, where he continued to back up Delhomme. Weinke made his first appearance since 2001 on December 10, 2006 against the New York Giants. The Panthers lost the game, but Weinke threw for 423 yards, beating Steve Beuerlein's previous single-game team record of 373 yards. Weinke started playing against the Pittsburgh Steelers and Atlanta Falcons, with Atlanta's game against Atlanta being his second (and last) victory as a starter in the NFL. Weinke's team lost seventeen games in a row beginning in 2001 (fourteen in 2001, two in 2002 and two in 2006).
After losing quarterback Alex Smith, Trent Dilfer, and Shaun Hill, the San Francisco 49ers signed Weinke on December 12, 2007. In a 20–7 loss to the Cleveland Browns in his last game of the 2007 season, he started the season. The 2008 season was not the first one for Weinke's return to the 49ers.
Coaching career
Weinke had been hired as the St. Louis Rams' quarterbacks coach on February 19, 2015. The Los Angeles Times revealed on January 18, 2017 that Weinke would be replaced by Greg Olson, effectively ending his relationship with the Rams.
Weinke will be joining the University of Alabama coaching staff as an offensive analyst on March 1, 2017.
Weinke will join the University of Tennessee's coaching staff as a running backs coach on February 21, 2018. Weinke would go from running backs coach to coaching quarterbacks at Tennessee until Jan 2021.
Weinke was appointed quarterback for Georgia Tech on January 2, 2022.