Nicolas Daryl Florence (born June 21, 1989) is a former
American football
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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
Baylor Bears
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.
High school career
Florence attended
South Garland High School
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in
Garland, Texas
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. During this career, he threw for 8,001 yards and 87
touchdowns
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. He was rated a three-star recruit by the
Rivals.com
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History
Rivals.com was founded in 1998 by Jim Heckma ...
recruiting service, and ranked as the 22nd-best dual-threat quarterback recruit in his class by Rivals.
College career
As a true freshman in 2009, Florence started the season as the third-string quarterback. After injuries to
Robert Griffin III
Robert Lee Griffin III (born February 12, 1990), nicknamed RG3 and RGIII, is an American football quarterback who is a free agent. He played college football at Baylor, where he won the Heisman Trophy as a senior, and was selected second overa ...
and Blake Szymanski, Florence took over as the starter and started seven of the next nine games. He finished the season completing 165 of 266 passes for 1,786 yards with six touchdowns and nine interceptions. Florence returned to backup as a sophomore in 2010 and played in seven games, completing 6 of 12 passes for 55 yards. As a junior in 2011, he played in two games as a backup, completing 9 of 12 passes for 151 yards with two touchdowns. Florence became the starter in 2012 after Griffin entered the NFL. He finished the season completing 286 of 464 passes for 4,309 yards with 33 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. He also had 568 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns.
In the 2012
Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl, he broke Griffin's
single-season passing yards record.
After completing his Baylor career in the 2012
Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl, Florence elected not to pursue the NFL and focussed instead on completing his master's degree at Baylor
See also
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List of NCAA major college football yearly passing leaders
The list of college football yearly passing and total offense leaders identifies the major college passing leaders for each season from 1937 to the present. It includes yearly leaders in three statistical categories: (1) passing yardage; (2) pass ...
References
External links
Baylor Bears bio
1989 births
Living people
American football quarterbacks
Baylor Bears football players
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