Kordell Stewart

Kordell Stewart (Slash) (twitter: @KSlash10)

Position: QB
Height: 6-1 Weight: 218 lbs.
Throws: Right

Born: October 16, 1972 in New Orleans, LA
College: Colorado (school history)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2nd round (60th overall) of the 1995 NFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 59 (1041st overall since 1950)
1-time Pro Bowler (fine print)

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News -- May 2013

5/5 Steel Curtain Rising: Al Pacino's "Six Inches in Front of Your Face" Steelers Style....: On Any Given Sunday might not have been the best movie made about pro football out there, even if one of its characters was supposedly...
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...

4/23 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL News of April 21, 2003: ”You are seeing more and more success stories with veteran quarterbacks who failed at one place and move on to another place,...
4/17 FootballPerspective.com: Tavon Austin Is a New Breed Of Player, Like So Many Before Him: It’s become trendy in recent weeks to discuss how players like Tavon Austin are “changing the game,” after the...
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...

3/16 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL News of March 16, 2003: Kordell Stewart, Brian Griese and Jake Plummer are the latest examples of wildly fluctuating QB stock. The discomfort between...
3/11 FootballPerspective.com: Quarterback Age Curves: Last summer, I looked at the age curves for running backs in an attempt to find out if there is a magical cliff at age 30 (there...
3/10 Steel Curtain Rising: Steelers Likely to Part Ways with Byron Leftwich: Mike Tomlin likes Byron Leftwich. It is easy to see why. Sure, Leftwich is immobile and has an irregular release.But he’s got...
3/3 FootballPerspective.com: Jimmy Smith is one of the best wide receivers in NFL history: Jacksonville’s Jimmy Smith was first eligible for the Hall of Fame in 2011. He was cut early in the process, failing to...

1/23 The Pewter Plank: 2013 NFL Draft Profile: Trent Steelman, Army: In the past, college quarterbacks who moved positions to enter the NFL draft usually did so reluctantly, or did so because the...
1/22 FootballPerspective.com: The Manning Index (and The Brady Effect): Eight years ago — almost to the day — our old PFR colleague Doug Drinen wrote a Sabernomics post about “The...
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...

12/29 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Career rushing stats in wins and losses: Yesterday, I noted that Adrian Peterson is averaging nearly two more yards per rush in losses than wins. He’s also averaging...
12/13 Steel Curtain Rising: The Pittsburgh Steelers History vs. the Dallas Cowboys: “Best” in the National Football League is defined by Super Bowl Championships. But how do you decide who is “the best of...

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....
11/9 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of November 9, 2002: Quarterbacking in the NFL just isn’t what it used to be. While players like Drew Bledsoe, Brett Favre, Jeff Garcia and...
11/8 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of November 8, 2002: Welcome to another week in sports’ most successful enterprise, the National Football League, which doesn’t have a...
11/4 FootballPerspective.com: Investing heavily in a Left Tackle is a luxury bad teams can not afford: The game is won in the trenches, I know. As we hit the halfway mark of the season, some teams are already thinking about next...

10/22 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of October 22, 2002: Those Monday Night Football hypemeisters, Al Michaels and John Madden, were lathering it on pretty good as the Steelers took charge...
10/5 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of October 5, 2002: So how is it that in less than a week, one athletic quarterback with questionable accuracy can become the richest player in NFL history...
10/4 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of October 4, 2002: The NFL did the Tennessee Titans no favors with the schedule. For the second consecutive week, the Titans are playing a team...
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...
10/3 First and Ten Years Ago: NFL news of October 3, 2002: Many N.F.L. quarterbacks would feel uncomfortable going a few weeks without starting. Tommy Maddox is about to learn what it...

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...
9/21 FootballPerspective.com: Stats Recap: Week 2: Let’s run through six of yesterday’s games and look at some of the more interesting stats from week 2: Carolina 35,...
9/21 Steel Curtain Rising: Five Keys to the Steelers Success in 2012: Steelers Nation will soon learn what the 2012 Pittsburgh Steelers are really made of. Since losing Super Bowl XLV the Steelers...

8/6 Steel Curtain Rising: Dermontti Dawson, Jack Butler Round Out Chuck Noll's Hall of Fame Resume: In 1987, Joe Greene and John Henry Johnson entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame together. Happy happenstance allowed the first...

6/7 Steel Curtain Rising: Understanding the Rise, Fall, Resurrection and Ultimate Undoing of Kordell Stewart: Kordell Stewart has officially retired as a Pittsburgh Steeler. That’s a strange thing to say for someone who threw his last...

5/13 Steel Curtain Rising: Todd Haley Presents New Playbook to Steelers: The NFL’s true “off season” might be fast approaching, but Todd Haley is already at work presenting his new offense to Steelers...

2/9 BearsHistory.com Blog: The Bucs are Considering Who?: Since we last visited: The Bears have hired former Jay Cutler tutor Jeremy Bates as quarterbacks coach. On Wednesday, they completed...