Steve Stenstrom (born December 23, 1971) is a former professional

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 wi ...

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 ...

College career

Stenstrom attended Stanford University where he was a member of Sigma Nu Fraternity. Stenstrom was the starting quarterback at Stanford University from 1991 to 1994, and still holds many of Stanford's passing records: *Total yards, career: 9,825 *Passing yards gained, career: 10,531 *Passing yards gained, season: 3,627 (1993) *Pass attempts, career: 1,320 *Pass attempts, season: 455 (1993) *Pass completions, career: 833 *Pass completions, season: 300 (1993) *Completion percentage, game: .882 (15/17) (1991)

NFL career

Stenstrom was selected by the

Kansas City Chiefs The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The ...

in the fourth round of the 1995 NFL Draft. Stenstrom played in five NFL seasons from 1996 to 1999 for the Chicago Bears and

San Francisco 49ers The San Francisco 49ers (also written as the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are a professional American football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The 49ers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's National ...

. He started seven games for the Bears during the 1998 season, as well as three games for the 49ers during the 1999 season after

Steve Young Jon Steven Young (born October 11, 1961) is an American former professional football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 15 seasons, primarily with the San Francisco 49ers. He also played for the Tampa Bay Buccane ...

's career-ending injury. He spent a partial season with the Detroit Lions in 2000 and then signed on with 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 headquar ...

in the spring of 2001 where he retired from the NFL shortly thereafter.

After football

Following his football career, Stenstrom returned to Stanford University to lead the Cardinal Life Christian ministry for athletes and along with his wife, Lori, established a program in the San Francisco Bay Area called 2nd Mile. Stenstrom is now the President of Profession Athletes Outreach (PAO), a Christian outreach program for coaches, players, and professional athletes. His son, Blake, is a quarterback for Princeton University. His daughter, Brook, swam for Stanford from 2016-2020. His youngest daughters, Lindsay and Ashley, currently (as of 2022) swim for

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stenstrom, Steve 1971 births Living people American football quarterbacks Chicago Bears players Players of American football from Lake Forest, California San Francisco 49ers players El Toro High School alumni Stanford Cardinal football players

College career

NFL career

After football

See also

References