Christopher David Simms (born August 29, 1980) is an American sports analyst and former
football
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player. He was a
quarterback
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who played in the
National Football League
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(NFL). He was drafted by the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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in the third round of the
2003 NFL Draft
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after playing
college football
College football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.
Unlike most ...
for the
Texas Longhorns.
Simms also played for the
Denver Broncos
The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver. The Broncos compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The team is headquart ...
and the
Tennessee Titans. He is the son of former
New York Giants
The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) East division. ...
quarterback and
Super Bowl XXI
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MVP
Phil Simms and the older brother of quarterback
Matt Simms.
Early years
Simms grew up in
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey and attended
Ramapo High School, where he was a standout in both football and basketball.
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''Hartford Courant
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'', September 15, 1999. Accessed May 26, 2011. "Freshman quarterback Chris Simms learned that Saturday. The son of former Giants quarterback Phil Simms, he grew up in Franklin Lakes, N.J., and played at Ramapo High School, where he was USA Today's high school offensive player of the year in 1998." In football, he was a two-time All-State honoree, and was named the 1998 ''
USA Today
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'' National Offensive Player of the Year.
Simms graduated from Ramapo High School in 1999. After committing to the
University of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee (officially The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; or UT Knoxville; UTK; or UT) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee. Founded in 1794, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state, ...
during his senior year, Simms decommitted and enrolled at the
University of Texas
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instead.
College career
Simms played college football at the
University of Texas at Austin
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from 1999 to 2002.
He spent his freshman year as the backup to
Major Applewhite
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, and saw limited playing time until the end of the season. Going into the Texas A&M game (the so-called Bonfire Game as it followed the
tragic death of 12 students during construction of A&M's annual bonfire), Texas was ranked #5, but right before that game, Applewhite got an intestinal virus that kept him up all night and required him to be put on an IV the next day. As a result, Simms got his first career start and had the Longhorns up 16–6 at halftime. After Simms struggled in the 2nd half, and with Texas still ahead, he was replaced by Applewhite in the 4th quarter, but Applewhite was not able to get Texas any points, they fell behind in the last 6 minutes and Applewhite fumbled on their last possession. Simms took over again during the Cotton Bowl, when Applewhite suffered a knee injury in the 4th quarter.
![Simms autograph session](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Simms_autograph_session.jpg)
The next season Applewhite was again the starter, but Simms was more of a co-quarterback than a backup. After Applewhite played poorly in a loss to Stanford in the 2nd game, Simms was given his second career start in the following game against Houston. Simms struggled early and Applewhite got the majority of the snaps in what turned out to be a rout resulting in Applewhite regaining the role as starter. Simms would again get a chance to start when Applewhite suffered a season-ending knee injury on the last drive of the Texas Tech game. Simms played well, throwing for 240 yards or more in each game, including a 383-yard game against #21 Texas A&M, the most ever by a Texas QB against the Aggies. Texas went 2–1 with Simms as quarterback, with the only loss against #8 Oregon, a game Texas could have won – despite Simms setting the record for interceptions in a Holiday Bowl game with 4, but for three dropped touchdown passes on the last drive.
Mack Brown
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was impressed enough to name Simms the starter before the start of spring practice, a decision that proved controversial.
The Longhorns were ranked #5 to start the 2001 season and Simms' play through the first four games was good enough to keep them there. But in the
Red River Showdown, Texas faced #3
Oklahoma
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and Simms' four interceptions, including one in the Sooners' end zone and one that was returned for a touchdown, sealed Oklahoma's victory. Nonetheless, Simms recovered to lead Texas to six straight wins with five straight 200-yard passing games, including a dominating win over #14
Colorado
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and his second straight win over the
Aggies, a #3 ranking, and a rematch against #10 Colorado in the
Big 12 Championship Game
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on December 1. Because of an upset loss by
Florida
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to
Tennessee
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earlier in the day, Texas went into the game knowing that a win would likely put them in the
2002 BCS Championship Game. But Simms had a disastrous game. He was responsible for four turnovers (three interceptions and a fumble) in the first half of play. In the 2nd quarter, after being booed by Texas fans, Simms injured his finger and Applewhite entered the game with Texas down, 29–10. Applewhite led Texas back to within 2 points, but eventually Texas would come up short losing 39–37 after an
onside kick
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attempt failed. Applewhite's strong play, combined with Simms' injury, resulted in Simms sitting out the
2001 Holiday Bowl
The 2001 Culligan Holiday Bowl was a college football bowl game played December 28, 2001, in San Diego, California. It was part of the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. It featured the Washington Huskies against the Texas Longhorns. Texas wo ...
.
Texas came into the 2002 season with high hopes and a #2 ranking. Simms was the starter all season, and he threw for a career-high 3,207 yards, 2nd to only Applewhite at the time. Texas won its first 5 games and then faced their first challenge against #3 Oklahoma. Texas led in that game until the 4th quarter, when a 3rd Simms interception set up Oklahoma's winning touchdown. Simms and Texas recovered to beat #17 Kansas State and #17 Iowa State in back to back weeks followed by wins over Nebraska and Baylor to climb back up to #3 in the rankings. But the following week, Texas Tech quarterback
Kliff Kingsbury threw for 473 yards to upset the Longhorns 42–38, despite Simms playing one of his best games, and scuttle their national championship dreams. Simms capped his year with his 3rd straight victory over Texas A&M and his first bowl win over #25 LSU in the
Cotton Bowl. In the Cotton Bowl he threw for 269 yards, 2 touchdowns, and 1 interception – with more than half of those yards going to Cotton Bowl MVP
Roy Williams. Simms was named the team's MVP for the season.
He finished with a career record of 26–6, second largest number of wins, at the time, to
Bobby Layne. He also played in the 2002 Senior Bowl in which he threw an interception that went for a Senior Bowl record 99-yard return.
Professional career
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Simms was drafted with the last pick of the 3rd round in 2003 by the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) NFC South, South divisio ...
with the expectation that he would eventually be the successor to
Brad Johnson. He was cast third on the Bucs depth chart behind Johnson and former Buccaneers starter
Shaun King. Simms sat his entire rookie year without playing a single snap in the regular season.
2004
In 2004, Simms started the season as the 3rd string quarterback again, this time behind Johnson and former
Denver Broncos
The Denver Broncos are a professional American football franchise based in Denver. The Broncos compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The team is headquart ...
and
Miami Dolphins
The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member team of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) East division. The team pla ...
starter
Brian Griese, but quickly advanced to backup quarterback after a poor preseason by Griese. Simms saw his first action on September 19, 2004 against the
Seattle Seahawks
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after a below-average performance by
Johnson
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, coming into the game with 10:32 left in the 2nd quarter. Simms went 21–32 with 175 yards and an interception. Simms received his first start two games later against the
New Orleans Saints
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on October 10, 2004 after the Bucs started 0–4 and Johnson was benched for his poor performance. Simms went 5–8 for 75 yards but injured his shoulder early in the game and missed three weeks, allowing
Brian Griese to secure the position with 3 straight wins. Simms saw occasional action as the backup QB to Griese and started a meaningless final game against the
Arizona Cardinals
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where he threw for 224 yards, 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions.
2005
In 2005, Simms was slated on the depth chart as the backup quarterback, behind
Griese and ahead of former
Cleveland Browns
The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference ( ...
starting quarterback
Luke McCown
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. Simms got his first snap of the season after
Miami Dolphins
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linebacker
Zach Thomas
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was pushed onto Griese's leg with several minutes left in the game on October 16, 2005. Despite the injury, the Buccaneers prevailed 27–13 in the game in which Griese was lost for the season. Simms performed well, completing 6 of 10 passes for 69 yards. Simms got his first start of the season the following week against a weak
San Francisco 49ers
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squad. While Simms had decent numbers (21–34, 264 yards, 1 touchdown, 2 interceptions), his performance was considered poor, as there were many times when he underthrew his receivers, missed open receivers, or incorrectly read the defensive coverage. Simms followed up this performance with about the same performance (25–42, 259 yards, 1 touchdowns, 2 interceptions) against the division rival
Carolina Panthers
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, who were considered a much better team than San Francisco. After these two losses however, Simms performed better than expected and had a knack for late-game heroics. He led fourth-quarter charges against fellow division rival
Atlanta
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twice, as well as the
Washington Redskins
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. The Redskin game was his best performance of the year as Simms threw for 3 scores as the Buccaneers won 36–35 in a remarkable game. Simms had a much more impressive performance in the rematch against
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on the road. The two losses in this stretch were against the defending
Super Bowl
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Champion
New England Patriots
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, and the
Chicago Bears
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, who were ranked #1 in the league in total defense, and in both of these games, Simms did not throw any interceptions, but was sacked a combined 11 times. He even led Tampa Bay to another fourth-quarter comeback against the Bears but a 29-yard field goal attempt floated wide right, giving the Bears a 13–10 victory.
Simms led the Buccaneers to their first playoff berth since their Super Bowl victory in the
2002 season. In the rematch vs. the Redskins Simms led Tampa Bay back again from a 17–3 halftime deficit. With the score at 17–10 late in the fourth quarter, Simms hit
Edell Shepherd
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Shepherd was also a member of the Ta ...
on an apparent 35-yard touchdown strike. However, Shepherd failed to maintain possession as he hit the ground. Tampa Bay lost 17–10 in a game where Washington gained only 120 yards of offense, the lowest total for a playoff winner in NFL history.
Life-threatening injury
Simms suffered a season-ending injury in Game 3 of the 2006 schedule. On Sunday, September 24, he was taken off the field after taking hard hits from the
Carolina Panthers
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defense. Simms returned to the game and even led a successful scoring drive, but remained in physical distress and was taken to a nearby hospital after the game. Tests revealed a ruptured
spleen
The spleen is an organ found in almost all vertebrates. Similar in structure to a large lymph node, it acts primarily as a blood filter. The word spleen comes . , and Simms immediately underwent emergency surgery. In the aftermath, Simms said he lost five pints of blood before the operation and conceded that another 45 minutes without treatment could have been fatal. Playing on a one-year, $2.1 million contract signed before the season, Simms was eligible for free agency for 2007.
2006-2008
On December 27, 2006, Simms announced that he had signed a two-year extension to remain with the Buccaneers with the expectation that he would start. However, due to complications from his recovery and the performance of
Jeff Garcia in mini-camp, Simms was expected to serve as a backup to Garcia. On October 9, Simms was placed on injured reserve for the rest of the season. The Bucs were expected to keep Simms on the roster for mini camp as their fifth quarterback.
Simms' relationship with head coach
Jon Gruden
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worsened significantly during this period. Simms attributed his lack of playing time to how Gruden treated him during his recovery from the spleen injury. He has even said that "The relationship between me and coach Gruden, it’s broken," Simms said. "And I don’t see any way it’s going to get better." Simms also said that he will never forgive Gruden, although he still respects the Buccaneers as an organization.
On August 30, 2008, the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
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released Simms. He worked out with the
Baltimore Ravens
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during the preseason but was not signed.
Tennessee Titans (first stint)
Simms signed with the
Tennessee Titans on September 9, 2008 after starter
Vince Young was sidelined with a sprained MCL. In Young's absence, Simms served as the backup quarterback behind
Kerry Collins
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until October 3, when Simms was released to make room for
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. Simms was re-signed the following week on October 6.
Denver Broncos
![Chris Simms](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Chris_Simms.JPG)
On March 4, 2009, Simms signed a two-year, $6 million contract with the Denver Broncos. The deal included a $1.5 million signing bonus and Simms could have earned an additional $3 million through incentives. He was the backup quarterback to
Kyle Orton
Kyle Raymond Orton (born November 14, 1982) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football for Purdue, where he started four straight bowl games. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Dr ...
. However, he took over in the second half of a game against the
Washington Redskins
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after Orton left with a
sprained ankle, and eventually gave up the lead to the Redskins while going 3–13 passing for 13 yards with no touchdowns and one interception. He started against the
San Diego Chargers
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on November 22, 2009 but was quickly replaced by Orton in the second quarter after going a disappointing 2 for 4 for only 10 yards. He was released on March 15, 2010 after the Broncos traded for
Brady Quinn.
Tennessee Titans (second stint)
On April 12, 2010, Simms was re-signed by the
Tennessee Titans.
On September 4, 2010, Simms was cut from the Titans roster. On November 22, 2010, he was re-signed to be a backup quarterback behind
Rusty Smith, after the season-ending injury to
Vince Young. He was not brought back for the 2011 season, nor was he picked up by another team.
NFL career statistics
Coaching career
Simms was hired as a coaching assistant by the
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots are a professional American football team based in the Greater Boston area. They compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East divisio ...
on March 26, 2012. He had two main roles. One was in offensive quality control which involved breaking down film for the offense. He also had responsibilities in putting together the scouting report.
Broadcasting career
On July 22, 2013, Chris Simms was included in
Fox Sports' commentator lineup for the 2013 college football season. He made his debut as
color commentator
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when
West Virginia University
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played the
College of William & Mary
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on August 31, 2013.
Chris Simms joined
Bleacher Report
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Bleacher Report was acquired by Turner Broadcasting System in Aug ...
in February 2014 as an NFL analyst.
From 2014 to 2016, Simms was as a color commentator for the ''
NFL on CBS
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'', joining his father as part of the CBS broadcasting team. He left after the 2016 season to join his father's old employer,
NBC Sports
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, where he is a studio analyst for
Notre Dame football
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and a personality on
NBC Sports Radio. In March 2019, Simms left
Bleacher Report
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Bleacher Report was acquired by Turner Broadcasting System in Aug ...
to become a full-time employee of NBC working as an analyst for ''
Football Night In America'' and
Notre Dame football
The Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team is the intercollegiate football team representing the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, north of the city of South Bend, Indiana. The team plays its home games at the campus' Notre Dame S ...
, as well as co-host of ''
ProFootballTalk Live''. In 2021, he began to co-host
Peacock
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's ''Sunday Night Football Final''.
Personal life
Simms married Danielle Marie Puleo in August 2004, whom he first met in high school. Together, they have two children: Charlotte, born in 2006, and Phillip, born in 2010.
Simms was arrested in July 2010 and charged with driving while intoxicated, but was acquitted at trial in May 2011.
References
External links
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Living people
College football announcers
Denver Broncos players
New England Patriots coaches
Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
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Notre Dame Fighting Irish football announcers
People from Franklin Lakes, New Jersey
Players of American football from New Jersey
Ramapo High School (New Jersey) alumni
Sportspeople from Bergen County, New Jersey
1980 births