Donald Driver
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| Green Bay Packers — No. 80 | |
| Wide receiver | |
| Date of birth: February 2, 1975 | |
| Place of birth: Houston, Texas | |
| Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | Weight: 190 lb (86 kg) |
| National Football League debut | |
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| 1999 for the Green Bay Packers | |
| Career history | |
| College: Alcorn State | |
| NFL Draft: 1999 / Round: 7 / Pick: 213 | |
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| Career highlights and awards | |
| Selected NFL statistics (through Week 17 of the 2007 NFL season) |
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| Receptions | 503 |
| Receiving Yards | 6,977 |
| Receiving TDs | 38 |
| Stats at NFL.com | |
Donald Jerome Driver (born February 2, 1975 in Houston, Texas) is an American football wide receiver who plays for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. Driver was picked by the Packers in the 1999 NFL Draft in the seventh round (213th pick overall) out of Alcorn State University.
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[edit] College career
Donald Driver attended Alcorn State University, where he lettered in both football and track & field. He finished his college football career there with 88 receptions for 1933 yards (19.69 YPC). Driver is one of the most decorated track athletes in the NFL (he is an Olympic class high jumper, being able to jump 7 feet 6 inches[1] and could have qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympics team). He was a five time "Athlete of the Year" in his conference for his track and football prowess.
Driver is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter organization established for African Americans.[2]
[edit] Professional career
[edit] Green Bay Packers
Known as one of the toughest wide receivers in the game, Driver had the most catches in the NFL in the middle of the field in 2006. He set a career best for yards on November 12, 2006 when he caught six passes for 191 yards including an 82 yard touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings. A couple of weeks later against the 49ers, he and quarterback Brett Favre, connected on a 35 yard pass in which he made an acrobatic leap to turn around and out run former teammate Mark Roman, to the end zone for his seventh touchdown of the year. The play ended as a 68 yard touchdown catch. Driver finished the 2006 season in the top 5 of the league in reception yardage with 1,295 yards. He also recorded the most receptions in his career with 92 of them, earning a spot in the 2007 Pro Bowl. Driver is also the last seventh round pick to make it to a Pro Bowl as of 2007.
On December 16, 2007 during a 33-14 victory over the St. Louis Rams, Brett Favre broke Dan Marino's all-time record mark of 61,361 career passing yards. The new record came on a seven yard completion to Driver.[3]
Donald Driver, as well as team mates Chad Clifton, Aaron Kampman, and Al Harris, and head coach Mike McCarthy, went to Hawaii for the 2008 Pro Bowl. Brett Favre was scheduled to be in the Pro Bowl, but he has been replaced by Jeff Garcia. [4]
In the NFC Championship game on January 20, 2008 against the New York Giants, Driver had the longest play in the playoffs of the Packers' franchise history with a 90 yard TD catch from Brett Favre.
He currently resides in Flower Mound, Texas.
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| 1999 | GB | 6 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 10.3 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2000 | GB | 16 | 2 | 21 | 322 | 15.3 | 49 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 16 |
| 2001 | GB | 13 | 2 | 13 | 167 | 12.8 | 37 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 2002 | GB | 16 | 16 | 70 | 1064 | 15.2 | 85 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 47 |
| 2003 | GB | 15 | 15 | 52 | 621 | 11.9 | 41 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 30 |
| 2004 | GB | 16 | 11 | 84 | 1208 | 14.4 | 50 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 59 |
| 2005 | GB | 16 | 16 | 86 | 1221 | 14.2 | 59 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 63 |
| 2006 | GB | 16 | 16 | 92 | 1295 | 14.1 | 82 | 8 | 21 | 5 | 53 |
| 2007 | GB | 15 | 14 | 82 | 1048 | 12.8 | 47 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 49 |
| TOTAL | 129 | 92 | 503 | 6977 | 13.9 | 54.1 | 38 | 104 | 23 | 328 |
[edit] References
- ^ Packer Draft notes. Packers.com. Retrieved on 2008-10-23.
- ^ Greeks in Professional Football 2007. Greeks in Sports. North-American Interfraternity Conference. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
- ^ Favre passes Marino; Packers down Rams to clinch bye. TheSportsNetwork.com. Retrieved on 2007-12-16.
- ^ ESPN - Garcia, Schobel, Dockett, Cole, Albright added as injury replacements - NFL
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