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===Collegiate awards===
===Collegiate awards===
*2009 National Performer of the Year, [[College Football Performance Awards]]<ref>http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=30726&SPID=2419&ATCLID=204867533&DB_OEM_ID=6100</ref><ref>http://collegefootballperformance.com/trophy-winners/</ref>
*2009 National Performer of the Year, [[College Football Performance Awards]]<ref>http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=30726&SPID=2419&ATCLID=204867533&DB_OEM_ID=6100</ref><ref>http://collegefootballperformance.com/trophy-winners/</ref>
*2009 All-SEC second team by Coaches and AP <ref>http://m.todaysthv.com/article.asp?storyid=97357</ref>
*2009 All-SEC second team by Coaches and AP <ref>http://m.todaysthv.com/article.asp?storyid=97357</ref> Also won Piggy Boy Boy award for Bacon eating
*Autozone [[Liberty Bowl]] Offensive MVP
*Autozone [[Liberty Bowl]] Offensive MVP
*[[College Football Performance Awards]] Honorable Mention QB of the Week (vs. Georgia & Troy)<ref>http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=6100&ATCLID=1514812</ref>
*[[College Football Performance Awards]] Honorable Mention QB of the Week (vs. Georgia & Troy)<ref>http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=6100&ATCLID=1514812</ref>

Revision as of 18:39, 19 February 2010

Template:Infobox CollegeFootballPlayer Ryan Mallett (born June 5, 1988 in Batesville, Arkansas) is an American football quarterback at the University of Arkansas.[1] Mallett, formerly of University of Michigan, was named 2009 National Performer of the Year by the College Football Performance Awards and recipient of the world's largest crystal football trophy.[2][3]

High school career

Mallett graduated from Texas High School in Texarkana, Texas, and was ranked as the #2 quarterback and #4 overall player in the nation by Rivals.com. He was also the Gatorade Player of the Year in Texas in 2006. Mallett participated in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in 2007 and won the Glenn Davis Army Award as the best player on the West team.

High school statistics

Season ATT COMP COMP% YDS TD INT
2004 (So.) 316 151 47.8 2,307 18 10
2005 (Jr.) 221 133 60.2 2,219 21 6
2006 (Sr.) 321 204 73.6 3,353 33 3

Source: [4]

College career

2007 team huddle with Mario Manningham (86), Mallett (15), Mike Hart (20), Jake Long (77), Adrian Arrington (16), Mike Massey (83), Justin Boren (65), Carson Butler (85), and Stephen Schilling (52) against Penn State
Mallett rolls out against Penn State. Jake Long and Justin Boren are among the visible linemen.
Mallett hands off to Mike Hart

2007

Mallett made his first appearance at Michigan in the second game of the 2007 season against Oregon. He entered the game for the injured Chad Henne in the third quarter and completed 6 of 17 passes for 49 yards and 1 interception. Mallett started again the next week against Notre Dame. He helped lead the Wolverines to a 38-0 victory by throwing 3 touchdown passes. He went 7/15 (46.7%) with 90 yards. Mallett started his first Big Ten conference game against Penn State the following week. He went 16/29 (55.2%) with 170 yards and 1 interception. He also scored on a 10-yard rush in the 1st quarter. Henne started the Wolverines' next three games. In those games, Mallett had limited playing time when he was nice like tea tea. In all he went 4/10 for 30 yards.

Mallett's next start was against Minnesota. He threw 1 touchdown pass and went 11/20 (55.0%) with 233 yards and no interceptions. Mallett did not start but played extensively the next week in a loss against Wisconsin. He threw 3 touchdown passes and went 11/36 (30.6%) with 245 yards and two interceptions. In the fourth quarter Mallett threw a 97 yard touchdown pass to Mario Manningham which is the longest pass completion in Michigan history. Mallett played very little in the next week's game against Ohio State. He threw three passes and completed one of them for eight yards.

Departure from Michigan

Mallett's departure from Michigan was widely expected after new head coach Rich Rodriguez was hired to replace retiring coach Lloyd Carr. Rodriguez overhauled Michigan's offense and installed a "spread" option offensive scheme, which did not fit Mallett's skills.

On January 14, Mallett enrolled at the University of Arkansas, where he redshirted the 2008 season due to the NCAA transfer policies. Mallett quarterbacked the Arkansas scout team in practice that season.

Arkansas

In 2009 as a redshirt sophomore, Mallett began his career as an Arkansas Razorback, under the direction of head coach Bobby Petrino. Prior to the 2009 season, Mallett was named by ESPN's Bruce Feldman as one of college football's top 10 newcomers of the year, citing his arm strength as a major determining factor.[5] In subsequent interviews, when Mallett was questioned about how far he could throw the football, he said farther than 80 yards.[6]

On March 1, 2009, he was arrested on charges of public intoxication.[7][8] He pled guilty to the misdemeanor charge on April 3, 2009 and paid $155 in court costs, fines, and fees. Mallett was also punished by Coach Petrino with early wake up calls, extra running, and early curfews.[9]

Mallett earned the starting job in the Razorbacks' first game against Missouri State, going 17-of-22 for 309 yards and a touchdown. Two weeks later, Mallett passed for 408 yards and five touchdowns against Georgia in a losing effort. The passing yardage and touchdowns were single game school records.

Ryan would throw for more than 250 yards in three of Arkansas' next five games, with nine touchdowns against three interceptions. Impressive victories over Texas A&M and Auburn were coupled with tough losses to Alabama and Ole Miss, and a loss vs. Florida.

After a dismal 3-4 start, Mallett lead Arkansas to three consecutive victories over Eastern Michigan (14-of-16 for 248 yards and three touchdowns), South Carolina (23-of-27 for 329 yards and one rushing touchdown), and Troy (23-of-30 for 405 yards, five touchdowns and one interception). Over those three games, he completed 83.1 % of his passes, and had a quarterback rating of 165.05, which was third-best in the nation. The victory over Troy pushed Arkansas' record to 6-4 and secured Mallett and the Hogs bowl eligibility, with Mississippi State and LSU left on the schedule.

Mallett went on to throw for 313 yards and matched his career high of five touchdown passes in a 42-21 victory over Mississippi State. The following week, he threw for 227 yards and a touchdown in a 33-30 overtime loss to LSU in Baton Rouge.

The Razorbacks finished the 2009 season with an 8-5 record and won the 2010 Liberty Bowl vs East Carolina University, 20-17 in OT. Mallett was named the bowl games Offensive MVP.

Mallett currently owns the school record for the following: Most passing yards in a season (3,627), most consecutive passes without an INT, most passing yards in a game (408), most passing touchdowns in a game (5 - three times), only quarterback to pass for over 400 yards in a game (two times), most pass plays of 25 or more yards in a season, and most passing TD in a single season (30).

Mallett chose to forgo entering the 2010 NFL Draft, and return for his junior season at Arkansas. Mallett was considered among the top five quarterbacks if he had entered the draft. [citation needed]

On January 11, 2010, Mallett was named 2009 National Performer of the Year by the College Football Performance Awards. Mallett matched or broke 16 school records at Arkansas in 2009, and was the recipient the world's largest crystal football award -- a 32 inch K9 optic crystall football pyramid with a 13 inch K9 optic crystal football on top. The purpose of the College Football Performance Awards is to provide the most scientifically rigorous conferments in college football. Recipients are selected exclusively based upon objective scientific rankings of the extent to which individual players increase the overall effectiveness of their teams.[10][11]

Collegiate awards

Statistics

Season GP GS ATT COMP COMP% YDS YDS/COMP TD INT LONG
2007 10 3 141 61 43.3 892 14.6 7 5 97
2008
Ineligible due to NCAA transfer rule
2009 12 12 403 225 55.8 3627 16.12 30 7 82

As of January 8, 2010

References

Template:SEC football quarterbacks