Christian Veilleux (born June 28, 2002) is a Canadian
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
quarterback
The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...
for the
Pittsburgh Panthers
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of the
Atlantic Coast Conference
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. He formerly played for the
Penn State Nittany Lions
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.
College career
Penn State
Veilleux became the first Canadian quarterback to play for a Power Five school in 16 years when he decided to play for Penn State.
Veilleux spent 2021 as
Sean Clifford
Sean Burke Clifford (born July 14, 1998) is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Penn State. He was the starting quarterback and team captain for the Nitta ...
's backup. On November 29, 2022, Veilleux announced he had entered the transfer portal.
Pittsburgh
On December 18, 2022, Veilleux announced his commitment to Pittsburgh.
References
External links
Penn State Nittany Lions bioPittsburgh Panthers bio*
2002 births
Living people
Bullis School alumni
Canadian expatriate American football people in the United States
Penn State Nittany Lions football players
Sportspeople from Ottawa
American football quarterbacks
Pittsburgh Panthers football players
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