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Joe Burrow
Burrow in 2018
LSU Tigers – No. 9
PositionQuarterback
Class
Redshirt
Redshirt
Senior
Personal information
Born: (1996-12-10) December 10, 1996 (age 27)
Ames, Iowa
Height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight216 lb (98 kg)
Career history
College
Bowl games
High schoolAthens (The Plains, Ohio)
Career highlights and awards

Joseph Lee Burrow[1] (born December 10, 1996) is an American football quarterback for the LSU Tigers. Burrow won the Heisman Trophy for the 2019 season. Before transferring to LSU, Burrow began his collegiate career at Ohio State. He is considered by many to be a top prospect in the 2020 NFL Draft.[2]

Early years

Burrow is the son of former University of Nebraska, NFL and CFL player Jimmy Burrow, who went on to a coaching career that lasted nearly 40 years. The elder Burrow, whose last coaching position was defensive coordinator at Ohio University for more than a decade, retired after the 2018 season in part to be able to see all of Joe's games in his final college season. Joe was born in Ames, Iowa while his father was on the staff at Iowa State.[3] According to a 2019 Sports Illustrated story, "The Burrow athletic lineage dates back nearly a century." In the 1940s, one of his grandmothers set a Mississippi state high school record with an 82-point game in basketball. His paternal grandfather played basketball at Mississippi State; his uncle, John Burrow, played football at Ole Miss; and two older brothers also played football at Nebraska.[4]

The SI story noted that he first attended a sporting event, an older brother's football game, when he was 5 days old, and at age 6 he attended the 2002 Rose Bowl in which his father served as a Nebraska assistant and another brother played. Not long after, he began playing in youth football leagues. Unlike his father, uncle, and brothers, who all played on defense, Burrow started out as a quarterback because his first youth team had no one else who could play the position.[4]

The Burrow family moved to Fargo, North Dakota in 2003 when his father was hired as the defensive coordinator for the North Dakota State Bison. One day while visiting the office, future Central Michigan head coach Dan Enos commented that the seven year old had a future in football.[5] The Burrows spent two years in Fargo before Jimmy accepted the defensive coordinator position at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Burrow attended Athens High School (2011–14) in The Plains, Ohio, leading the school to three straight playoff appearances and the school's first seven playoff victories in school history.[6] During his career, he passed for 11,416 yards with 157 passing touchdowns and rushed for 2,067 yards with 27 rushing touchdowns.[7] He was awarded in 2014 the Ohio Mr. Football Award and Ohio Gatorade Player of the Year Award as a senior. He and his Bulldog teammates went 14–1 that season with their only defeat on a last minute touchdown in the state finals. He was also a standout basketball player, and was named first-team all-state at point guard his senior year.[6] Burrow was rated as a four-star football recruit, and was the eighth-highest ranked dual-threat quarterback in the class of 2015 according to the 247Sports Composite.[8] He committed to Ohio State to play football on May 27, 2014.[9][10]

College career

Ohio State

After redshirting his first year at Ohio State in 2015, Burrow spent the next two years as a backup to J. T. Barrett. Over the two years, he played in 10 games, completing 29 of 39 passes for 287 yards and two touchdowns.[11] Realizing that Dwayne Haskins would be named starting quarterback at Ohio State, Burrow transferred to Louisiana State University (LSU) on May 20, 2018.[12][13] Burrow had graduated from Ohio State in three years with a degree in consumer and family financial services, and would be immediately eligible as a graduate transfer.[14]

LSU

2018
In his first year at LSU, Burrow was named the starting quarterback as a redshirt junior in 2018.[14] In an early season road trip to then-No. 7 Auburn, Burrow threw for 249 yards and a touchdown en route to a 22–21 win. He was named SEC Offensive Player of the Week following the victory.[15] He again earned SEC Offensive Player of the Week honors following a 292-yard, three-touchdown performance against Ole Miss two weeks later.[16] Burrow helped lead the Tigers to a 10–3 record, including a win over UCF in the Fiesta Bowl, and a No. 6 ranking in the final AP Poll. Burrow finished the season with 2,894 yards passing, 16 touchdowns, and 5 interceptions. He added 399 yards and seven touchdowns on the ground.[17]

2019

Burrow was again named LSU's starting quarterback heading into his redshirt senior season in 2019. In the Tigers' season opener against Georgia Southern, Burrow threw for 278 yards and five touchdowns in a 55–3 win, and was later named SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week (with Tua Tagovailoa).[18] In a week two road trip to then-No. 9 Texas, Burrow threw for 471 yards, four touchdowns, and an interception in the 45–38 win. His 471 yards were the second most in school history and most since Rohan Davey's 528 against Alabama in 2001.[19] He was named Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week and SEC Offensive Player of the Week following the performance.[20] Burrow earned his third SEC Offensive Player of the Week honors on September 21 during LSU's game against Vanderbilt. He threw for 398 yards and a school-record-setting six passing touchdowns in the Tigers' 66–38 win. He became the first LSU quarterback to ever throw for 350 yards in three consecutive games.[21]

In a 42–6 win over Utah State, Burrow threw for 344 yards and five touchdowns, and became the first ever Tiger quarterback to throw for 300-plus yards in four consecutive games.[22] The streak came to an end the next week against then-No. 7 Florida, but Burrow's 293 yards and three touchdown passes helped lead the Tigers to another big win, 42–28.[23] The next week, in LSU's seventh game of the season, Burrow eclipsed the LSU single-season passing touchdowns record of 28 when he added four more in a win against Mississippi State.[24] Burrow led the Tigers to another top-ten win, and broke the LSU record for career 300-yard games (eight) with a 321-yard, two-total-touchdown performance against then-No. 9 Auburn.[25]

LSU's November 9 game against Alabama was highly anticipated as the highest ranked showdown between the two schools since the 2012 BCS National Championship Game; LSU was ranked second and Alabama third in the season's inaugural College Football Playoff rankings released the week prior. The game would also feature two leading candidates for the Heisman Trophy in Burrow and Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa.[26] Burrow and the Tigers came away victorious in a 46–41 shootout. Burrow passed for 393 yards and three touchdowns in the game,[27] and was again named Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week and SEC Co-Offensive Player of the Week.[28]

The following week against Ole Miss, Burrow threw for 489 yards and five touchdown passes, and passed LSU's single-season passing yards record set by Rohan Davey in 2001. He also set the LSU record of consecutive completed passes with 17 during the game.[29] On November 30, Burrow helped LSU secure an undefeated regular season with a 50–7 blowout win over Texas A&M, throwing for 352 yards and three touchdowns. During the game, he set the all-time SEC record for single-season passing yards (previously set by Kentucky's Tim Couch), and tied the conference record for single-season touchdowns of Missouri's Drew Lock.[30] Burrow took sole possession of the SEC single-season touchdown record the following week in the SEC Championship Game, throwing for four TDs in LSU's dominant 37–10 win over Georgia that secured the Tigers' place in the College Football Playoff, and according to the Associated Press "finished off his likely Heisman Trophy coronation."[31] On December 14, 2019, Burrow received the 2019 Heisman Trophy, winning by the largest margin in the history of the award.[32] Burrow’s Heisman acceptance speech, in which he referenced the rampant poverty affecting his hometown of Athens and The Plains, Ohio, inspired over $450,000 in donations towards the local food bank in Athens County from over 13,000 donors across the country. On December 19, the Athens City School District School Board unanimously approved a measure to rename the football stadium at Athens High School for Burrow.[33]

Statistics

As of November 30, 2019:[17]

  Passing Rushing
Season Team GP Rating Att Comp Pct Yds TD Int Att Yds Avg TD
2015 Ohio State Redshirt
2016 Ohio State 5 169.9 28 22 78.6 226 2 0 12 58 4.8 1
2017 Ohio State 5 110.2 11 7 63.6 61 0 0 3 -5 -1.7 0
2018 LSU 13 133.2 379 219 57.8 2,894 16 5 128 399 3.1 7
2019 LSU 13 201.5 439 342 77.9 4,715 48 6 96 289 3.0 3
Career 35 168.3 819 562 68.6 7,547 66 11 228 700 3.1 11

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  3. ^ Peterson, Randy (September 8, 2019). "Peterson's Big 12 picks: Ames roots run deep in NCAA football's biggest Week 2 game". Des Moines Register. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
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  23. ^ "Joe Burrow's 3 TDs lift No. 5 LSU over No. 7 Florida 42-28". ESPN.com. Associated Press. October 12, 2019.
  24. ^ "Joe Burrow throws 4 TDs passes, No. 2 LSU routs MSU 36-13". ESPN.com. Associated Press. October 19, 2019.
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