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David Mark Archer (born February 15, 1962 in Fayetteville, North Carolina) is a former professional American football player. A 6'2" undrafted quarterback from Iowa State University, Archer played 6 seasons in the National Football League from 1984 to 1989 for the Atlanta Falcons, Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers and Philadelphia Eagles.
[edit] WLAF and CFL career
Archer played for the Sacramento Surge of the WLAF in 1992, throwing for 2964 yards (still a NFL Europa single season record) and leading them to a World Bowl championship, where he was named game MVP. In 1993 he headed to the Canadian Football League (CFL) and the Sacramento Gold Miners (part of the league's United States expansion,) where in 1993 he threw for an amazing 6023 yards, still the 4th most in any CFL season (as luck would have it, Doug Flutie of the Calgary Stampeders threw for even more yards that year.) He threw for 3340 yards for Sacramento in 1994. He played with the San Antonio Texans in 1995, and the woeful Ottawa Rough Riders in 1996. After the Rough Riders folded, he was drafted by the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the dispersal draft. He decided to not play in Saskatchewan as the contract offer was too low and retired instead. He spent the 1997 season as a CFL television analyst and returned to the CFL with the Edmonton Eskimos in 1998. His final game was the Western Final playoff game against the Calgary Stampeeders with Jeff Gracia at QB. Calgary won and went on to win the Grey Cup. Archer retired after that game and is now the color analyst for the Atlanta Falcons and SEC college football.
In his 5 seasons in the CFL he completed 1388 of 2434 passes (57%) for 20671 yards with 71 interceptions and 120 touchdown passes.
