Steve Beuerlein

Steve Beuerlein at NFL.com Stephen Taylor Beuerlein (born March 7, 1965 in Los Angeles, California) is a former football quarterback who during his NFL career played for the Los Angeles Raiders (1988-89), Dallas Cowboys (1991-92), Phoenix Cardinals & Arizona Cardinals (1993-94), Jacksonville Jaguars (1995), Carolina Panthers (1996-2000) and Denver Broncos (2001-03). He attended the University of Notre Dame. Beuerlein led Anaheim, California's Servite High School to California's championship in 1982. In 1982 his Servite team played Ohio's famed Archbishop Moeller High. Moeller won 27-15, but Beuerlein's performance at Servite, and in the game with Moeller, caught the eye of Notre Dame's new head coach Gerry Faust, who had previously coached Moeller. Beuerlein attended Notre Dame the following year.

Beuerlein began his professional career with the Los Angeles Raiders, but suffered an injury in pre-season play in 1987.

Beuerlein's limited playoff experience came in relief of an injured Troy Aikman in 1991. He started in a win against the Chicago Bears, throwing 180 yards, and a touchdown, with no interceptions. The following week, he relieved Aikman after the Detroit Lions jumped too far ahead for the Cowboys. On his last play as a Cowboy, Beuerlein fumbled the ball on a botched handoff to Derrick Gainer, in Beuerlein's second play of the game. Luckily, the Cowboys were ahead 52-17 in Super Bowl XXVII.

He would play with the Phoenix Cardinals in 1993, passing for his first 3000 yard season.

In 1995 he was the first selection in the expansion draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars. He was the starting quarterback for the first game in team history. He would later lose his starting job to Mark Brunell.

After the season signed with Carolina.

Beuerlein holds many Panthers passing records. These include single-season records, all set in 1999, for passing yards (4,436), touchdowns (36), attempts (571), and completions (343).

He holds three of the top four single-game passing yard totals in team history (373, 368, and 364). His 5 touchdown passes in the last week of the 1999 season are still a team record.

His career records with the Panthers included most attempts (1,723), completions (1,041), passing yards (12,690), passing touchdowns (86), highest completion percentage (60.4%), and highest passer rating (87.7). They have all since been broken by current Panthers starting quaterback Jake Delhomme.

His 36 touchdown passes were 2nd in the NFL in 1999, and remain the eighth highest single-season total in league history. His 4,436 passing yards led the league, as did his 343 completions. At age 34, Beuerlein went to his only Pro Bowl that year.

Beuerlein finished his career with the Denver Broncos, playing mostly as a backup. However, before retiring in 2004, he signed a token one-year deal with Carolina, saying he wanted to retire as a Panther. [1]

In 2004, Beuerlein joined CBS Sports as a game analyst for The NFL on CBS.

External links

• Pro Football Reference.com - career statistics
• [2] - footage of Beuerlein getting sacked by Cornelius Bennett on 10-4-1986 (on YouTube)