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2015 Football Roster

6 Jeff Driskel

  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 231
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Oviedo, Fla.
  • Highschool Florida

Biography

CAREER HONORS & AWARDS
• C-USA Academic Medalist (2016)
• C-USA Commissioner's Honor Roll (2016)
• Conference USA Newcomer of the Year (2015)
• All-Conference USA Honorable Mention (2015)
• Conference USA All-Academic Team (2015)
• Louisiana Newcomer of the Year (2015)
• First Team All-Louisiana (2015)

REDSHIRT SENIOR (2015)
Started and played in all 13 games at quarterback for the Bulldogs.
Threw for 4,033 yards to rank third in school history over the course of the season with 27 passing touchdowns (ranking eighth) with only eight interceptions as he was 281-for-450 passing.
Passed for 274 yards in a 12-for-15 performance and tied a career-high with four touchdowns, while also rushing for 15 yards and a rushing touchdown in his first appearance at LA Tech against Southern (9/5).
Completed a season-high 30 passing attempts for 314 yards and a touchdown against Kansas State. (9/19), also carried the ball a season-high 19 times for 42 yards and two scores.
Completed 20-of-33 pass attempts for 290 yards and two touchdowns, while also rushing seven times for a season-high 56 yards and a score against ULL (10/3).
Completed 25-of-41 passes for 303 yards and two touchdowns, while rushing the ball six times for 20 yards against Mississippi State (10/17).
Completed 17 of 26 passes for 320 yards and a career-high four touchdowns against Rice (10/30).
Passed for an R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl record 458 yards (also career high) in a 26-for-38 performance with three touchdowns with a NOLA Bowl record 71-yard long pass in a win over Arkansas State (12/19).

FLORIDA (2011-14)
Played in nine games and made six starts at quarterback as a senior, throwing for 1,140 yards with nine touchdowns on the season.
Threw for a career-high 295 yards with three touchdowns in the win over Kentucky.
Completed a career-high 31 passes in the season opener against Eastern Michigan.
Started three games as a junior before suffering a season-ending fracture in his leg.
Threw for 477 yards completing 42-of-63 passes in his limited action.
Had career highs of attempts (33), completions (22) and passing yards (291) at Miami in week two.
Started 12 games for the Gators, 11 at quarterback, as a sophomore, completing 156-of-245 passes for 1,646 yards with 12 touchdowns and five interceptions on the year.
Also ran 118 times for 408 yards (3.5 avg) on the season with three touchdowns.
His 408 rushing yards rank seventh in school history by a quarterback for a single season.
Threw a 75-yard touchdown pass to Frankie Hammond at Tennessee for the longest pass of his career.
Was named the SEC Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts against the Volunteers, rushed 11 times for a career-high 177 yards and three touchdowns at Vanderbilt.
The 177 yards rushing is a school record by a Gator quarterback, surpassing Tim Tebow's mark of 166 yards at Ole Miss in 2007.
Threw for a career-best four touchdowns against South Carolina and was the only FBS player in 2012 to have four touchdown passes and throw for less than 100 yards in the same game.
In his first career start at quarterback at Texas AaM, he was 13-of-16 passing for 162 yards and did not turn the ball over.
Saw action in five games as a true freshman quarterback.
Completed 16-of-34 passes for 148 yards to own a 71.86 efficiency rating throughout his freshman campaign.
Made his Gator debut in the season opener against FAU and his SEC debut against Kentucky.

HIGH SCHOOL
Maxwell Football Club National High School Player of the Year.and Gatorade Florida Player of the Year.
Rated the No. 1 quarterback nationally according to Scout.com and Rivals.com.
Threw for a career 4,844 passing yards and 36 touchdowns and helped lead the Huskies to their first winning season in their fourth year as a varsity program.
Had 1,819 yards and 15 touchdowns passing, 1,333 rushing yards with 20 touchdowns and caught two touchdown passes his senior year.
Threw for 1,427 yards with 11 touchdowns and ran for 170 yards with five touchdowns his junior year.
Participated in the Under Armour High School All-American Game in 2011.
Coached by Nate Gierke.

PERSONAL
Jeff Driskel … Son of Jerry and Mary Driskel … Mother, Mary, played volleyball at Air Force and brother, Jason, played football at Florida Atlantic … Recruited by Tony Petersen.

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