Marino's Take:
The Offensive Quarterbacks 
2006: Team's Most Valuable Player for 2006 as voted by the Wildcat players ... Completed 63 percent of his passes, good for 3,515 yards and 31 touchdowns ... Led the SEC in passing yardage per game (270.4), total offense (259.8) and TD passes (31) ... Second in the SEC in passing efficiency with a 154.5 rating ... Had a 31-to-7 TD-to-interception ratio ... 31 TDs are good for third place on UK's single-season list ... Threw three TD passes in consecutive games vs. Louisville, Texas State, and Ole Miss, the first Wildcat to do so since Jared Lorenzen in 2002 ... First UK quarterback to throw for at least 350 yards in back-to-back games since Lorenzen in 2001 ... Threw for career-high 450 yards and career-high-tying four TDs in win over Vanderbilt ... National Player of the Week by SI On Campus and SEC Offensive Player of the Week vs. Vanderbilt ... Most Valuable Player of the Music City Bowl as he completed 20-of-28 passes for 299 yards and three touchdowns ... His 80-yard TD strike to Dicky Lyons Jr. at Louisville is a career long ... SEC Offensive Player of the Week for the Ole Miss game when he threw for 293 yards and three TDs.
2005: Started all 11 games ... Completed 57.7 percent of his passes for 1,644 yards and six touchdowns ... Led the team in passing and total offense ... Set career highs by completing 26 of 43 passes for 335 yards vs. Auburn ... Threw for a career-long 79-yard touchdown pass at Indiana ... Earned the game-captain role for the Vanderbilt game and scored his first collegiate rushing TD in the win over the Commodores.
2004: Served as the backup quarterback behind senior Shane Boyd ... Played in seven games and played the entire game vs. Auburn when Boyd was out with injury ... For the season, he completed 54 of 88 passes, 61.4 percent, for 492 yards, two touchdowns, and only one interception.
2003: Redshirted.
High School: Right-handed QB who can throw the ball 60-70 yards … “He is an extremely accurate quarterback and makes very wise decisions. That’s something most prep quarterbacks can’t do at this very young age,” noted PrepStar … Coached by Joe Washington … Four-year letterman in basketball … First-team all-state by the Louisville Courier-Journal as a senior, averaging 15.5 points and eight rebounds while leading the team in assists with 90 … Third-team all-state as a junior, along with all-region and all-district honors … Team has gone to the state tournament each of the past three seasons … Picked to the all-state tournament team two years … Two-year letterman in track, participating in the high jump and the 4x100-, 4x200-, and 4x400-meter relays … Selected Kentucky over Tennessee and Penn State.
Personal: Born in Fort Lewis, Wash. … Son of Andre’ W. Woodson and Robin Woodson … Coming from a military family, he was born in Washington state, and has since lived in Germany, Pennsylvania, and Hawaii before moving to the Fort Knox area in 1994 … Major is kinesiology. |