Ian "Rocky" Butler

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Ian "Rocky" Butler (born August 7, 1979 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is a quarterback playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.

Butler was signed as a free agent by Saskatchewan in 2002. He was the fourth-string quarterback that year, but after a bizarre rash of injuries to all three of Saskatchewan's roster quarterbacks, Butler earned his first CFL start in the 2002 Labour Day Classic against the powerful Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Although he only completed 9 of 16 passes for 165 yards that day, he rushed for three touchdowns and helped the Riders score a convincing upset victory. He failed to duplicate that success in his next two CFL appearances (both in Week 1 of the 2004 CFL season when starter Nealon Greene broke his leg and the Riders had to play two games in five days), and he has been the Roughriders' third-string quarterback ever since. He attended college at Hofstra University. However, in 2006, Kerry Joseph, the 'riders starting quarterback, had been injured and was unable to start a game against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and backup Marcus Crandell was injured early in the game, and Rocky Butler pulled off two more wins against the struggling Tiger-Cats 43-13 and 51-8 and threw for five toutchdowns and ran for two more. During the CFL offseason, he is a substitute teacher in New York