Dan Fouts

Daniel Francis Fouts

Position: QB
Height: 6-3 Weight: 204 lbs.
Throws: Right

Born: June 10, 1951 in San Francisco, CA
College: Oregon (school history)
Drafted by the San Diego Chargers in the 3rd round (64th overall) of the 1973 NFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 122 (38th overall since 1950)
6-time Pro Bowler & 2-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)
Inducted into Hall of Fame in 1993

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News -- May 2013

5/1 FootballPerspective.com: Where Does Tim Tebow Rank in the Pantheon of Great Quarterbacks: With the Jets releasing Tim Tebow, it appears that his NFL career may be over. If that’s the case, it’s time to reflect...

4/16 FootballPerspective.com: Do NFL teams properly value age when drafting quarterbacks?: For the most part, age is rarely discussed when talking about college quarterbacks. Outside of the Brandon Weedens and Chris Weinkes...
4/13 FootballPerspective.com: Fourth Quarter/Overtime Game-Winning Passing Touchdowns: Yesterday, I looked at the career leaders in 4th quarter (and overtime) game-winning touchdowns from scrimmage. Today I will do...

3/22 FootballPerspective.com: Playing with the most coaches on one team: During the season, Mike Tanier noted that Shane Lechler has played for eight different coaches while being a member of the Raiders....
3/1 FootballPerspective.com: Can you name the last non-first ballot HOF Quarterback?: Kurt Warner will be eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2 years, making him a potential member of the Class of 2015. Warner is an...

2/6 FootballPerspective.com: NFL Retired Numbers, Player Deaths, and the Stories Behind Them: The table below lists every retired number for each of the 32 franchises. It also lists each player’s career AV (starting...

1/27 FootballPerspective.com: How Super Bowl XLVII could impact the HOF chances of certain Ravens: Being a Super Bowl champion is a pretty nice bullet to place on your Hall of Fame resume. For players like Jerry Rice or Peyton...
1/9 FootballPerspective.com: Comparing Matt Ryan to the previous Mayors of Chokesville: For the second time in three years, the Atlanta Falcons are the NFC’s number one seed. Just like in 2010, the Falcons started...
1/4 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Career passing stats in wins and losses: Last weekend, I looked at career rushing stats in wins and losses; today I will do the same but for quarterbacks. I looked at...

12/9 FootballPerspective.com: Larry Fitzgerald, innocent bystander: In the preseason, I wrote a post showing what percentage of each receiver’s receiving yards came from each of their quarterbacks....

11/17 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: QB Playoff Wins by College: Watching Matt Barkley today against UCLA, I tweeted that Mark Sanchez is responsible for 4 of the 9 playoff wins by USC quarterbacks....
11/8 FootballPerspective.com: Ranking NFL quarterbacks by how much ‘it’ they have: 2) Tom Brady, New England Patriots. Until further notice, nobody has more ‘it’ than Tom Brady, who has been overflowing...

10/26 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of October 26, 2002: In 1971, a man named Don Smith was flying over Kansas, naturally, when he came up with the basic formula for the passer rating....
10/4 FootballPerspective.com: Quarter-by-Quarter Team Win Probability Added: A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a method of calculating a team’s win probability at the end of any given quarter, given...

9/26 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Beating both Super Bowl parti****: Over at the PFR Blog, we used to post Checkdowns from time to time, shorter posts that were often just data dumps. Every once...
9/24 FootballPerspective.com: Interceptions per Incompletion (or POPIP): I leave the baseball analysis to my brothers at baseball-reference.com, but I know enough to be dangerous. There’s a stat...

8/30 FootballPerspective.com: The Greatest QB of All-Time IV, Part II: Career Rankings: Yesterday, I explained the methodology behind the formula involved in ranking every quarterback season in football history. Today,...
8/24 FootballPerspective.com: The best fantasy football players since 1950: Bill Simmons wrote about LaDainian Tomlinson last month and called him the best fantasy football player of all-time. “Greatest...
8/16 FootballPerspective.com: Joe Namath has become football’s most misunderstood quarterback: A couple of years ago, my colleague Jason Lisk explained why Joe Namath is a legitimate Hall of Famer. With each passing year,...

7/18 Stripe Hype: Top Ten Worst Monday Night Football Bengal Moments: While flipping channels last night I stumbled upon the NFL Networks Top 10 Gutsiest Calls. I don’t even know where it...
7/17 FootballPerspective.com: Random Perspective On: The 2012 New Orleans Saints: One of my law school professors was very quirky, even by law school professor standards. His preferred examination method was...
7/1 FootballPerspective.com: Trivia of the Day – Sunday, July 1st: Green Bay’s Arnie Herber (1936) and Cecil Isbell (1942) were the first players to ever throw for 1,000 and 2,000 yards in...

4/24 Money in the Banana Stand: The Potential Peyton Problem: The Denver Broncos signed Peyton Manning to a 5-year, $96 million contract on Tuesday. Most NFL prognosticators believe the Broncos...
4/12 Money in the Banana Stand: The Potential Peyton Problem: The Denver Broncos signed Peyton Manning to a 5-year, $96 million contract on Tuesday. Most NFL prognosticators believe the Broncos...