Is Chad Pennington alive? James Chadwick Pennington, a former American football quarterback, spent 11 seasons playing in the National Football League (NFL). He was born on June 26, 1976, and played college football at Marshall University, where he received the Sammy Baugh Trophy. In the 2000 NFL Draft, Pennington was selected in the first round by the New York Jets. He played with them for eight seasons before moving on to the Miami Dolphins for his last three seasons.
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One of Pennington’s notable achievements was holding the NFL record for completion percentage at the time of his retirement. His father, Elwood, was a physical education teacher and football coach at Halls High School, while his mother, Denise, taught at the Webb School of Knoxville. Pennington started playing basketball in third grade, but he began playing football during his freshman year in high school. He repeated the eighth grade when he enrolled at the Webb School of Knoxville due to its rigorous academic program. Although Pennington played both basketball and football in Webb, he realized that he had a better chance of getting into college through football.
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Pennington was only recruited by two colleges, Middle Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which were both NCAA Division I-AA schools at the time. In 1995, he attended a training camp at Marshall University, where he was noticed by head football coach Jim Donnan and offered a scholarship. Initially, he was the fourth-string quarterback for the Thundering Herd, but he went on to lead them to the 1995 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, which they lost to Montana, 22–20. In 1998, he was named the MVP of the Motor City Bowl after leading Marshall to their first bowl game victory with a score of 48–29 over Louisville.
Pennington set several school records in passing categories during his college career, and he finished fifth in the 1999 Heisman Trophy voting. In addition to his success on the field, Pennington excelled academically, graduating with a degree in journalism, a 3.83 grade point average, and becoming a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. He frequently wrote for Marshall’s newspaper, The Parthenon, and also served as a broadcaster for the school’s radio station WMUL, although he used a pseudonym on air so as not to distract from the game.