Seneca Wallace

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Seneca Wallace
August 5th, 2006 team scrimmage
Date of birth	December 10 , 1980
Place of birth	Sacramento, California
Position(s)	QB
College	Iowa State
NFL Draft	2003 / Round 4/ Pick 110
Statistics	Pro Football Reference NFL.com DatabaseFootball
Team(s)
2003-Present	Seattle Seahawks

Seneca Wallace (born August 6, 1980 in Sacramento, California) is an American football quarterback for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL Draft out of Iowa State University. It is widely thought his stock dropped in the draft due to his insistence that he quarterback for the team rather than be converted to an Antwaan Randle El-type receiver. Intrigued by his athleticism, the Seahawks gave him that chance. During the regular season, he has also been of particular use in helping the Seahawks practice for other extremely mobile quarterbacks, such as Donovan McNabb. Perhaps incongruously, his success behind Matt Hasselbeck has not cost him many playing opportunities; as the entrenched starter, he's too valuable ($54,000,000 to be exact) for the Seahawks to risk. His situation has been compared to that of Steve Young's early career.^{[citation needed]}

Wallace gained national notoriety (albeit briefly) in 2002 while with the Iowa State Cyclones in a play known affectionately to some as "The Run," in which he ran for a 12-yard touchdown versus Texas Tech. However, his actual amount of running in this play was estimated at over 120 yards (some sources claim it was actually 130 or more), as he dodged tackles and ran parallel to the endzone while receiving numerous blocks from his offense. While quarterbacking the Cyclones in 2001 and 2002, he threw 26 touchdowns and 27 interceptions.

In the 2005 season, Wallace played in seven games with the Seahawks, attempting 25 passes with 13 completions for 173 yards and a 52% completion percentage. Seneca rounded out the year with the longest pass of his career, a 42-yard bomb against the Arizona Cardinals in week 3, his first regular season touchdown pass (to Joe Jurevicius) in week 17 at Green Bay, which he followed up with his first career interception (by Al Harris).

Wallace made his mark in the 2006 NFL Playoffs when he caught an acrobatic 28 yard pass from Matt Hasselbeck in the NFC Championship game against the Carolina Panthers' Ken Lucas.

Wallace made his first NFL start as quarterback on Sunday, October 29, 2006 versus the Kansas City Chiefs, due to an injury to Hasselbeck's right knee.

It has often been suggested that Seneca Wallace return punts for the Seahawks, who have often been without the services of a good punt returner in the last 3 or 4 years. However, Seneca Wallace has repeatedly refused, claiming to want to remain a quarterback solely. This could also be too risky at this point due to the lack of an additional veteran backup quarterback.

Preceded by Matt Hasselbeck	Seattle Seahawks Starting Quarterbacks 2006	Succeeded by Matt Hasselbeck

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Seahawks Team Scrimmage -- August 5th, 2006 Cheney, Washington.

Wallace leads the second team offense	Wallace sizes up 1st round pick Jennings	Seneca finds Weeks underneath.	Wallace scrambles for a gain of 5.
Seneca sets on 2 and 5 at the 10.