Sherdrick Bonner

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Sherdrick Bonner

Date of birth:	October 19, 1968 (1968-10-19) (age 39)
Place of birth:	Azusa, California
Career information
Position(s):	Quarterback
Height:	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight:	240 lb (109 kg)
Jersey №:	13
College:	Cal State-Northridge
Organizations
As player:
1993-2007 2008-Present	Arizona Rattlers Chicago Rush

Sherdrick Bonner (born October 19, 1968) is an American football quarterback for the Chicago Rush of the Arena Football League.

1 High school years
2 College career
3 Professional career
- 3.1 NFL
- 3.2 AFL
4 Statistics
5 External links
6 References

[edit] High school years

Bonner attended Azusa High School in Azusa, California and was a student and a letterman in football, basketball, baseball, and track & field.

[edit] College career

He went to California State University, Northridge. While at CSUN from 1987 to 1991, Bonner started at quarterback for the football team, leading them to the 1990 Western Football Conference co-championship. Bonner also lettered in basketball, volleyball, and track and field. He played 23 games for the basketball team in the 1987-88 season, outside hitter for the men's volleyball team in the 1991 season, and took first place in the high jump three times. Bonner was inducted into CSUN's Matador Hall of Fame on October 2nd, 1998.

[edit] Professional career

[edit] NFL

In 1998, he was on the practice squad for the 1998 NFC Champion Atlanta Falcons. In the 1999 NFL season, Bonner was with the Arizona Cardinals and the San Diego Chargers^[1]

[edit] AFL

Throughout his incredible AFL career, Bonner has completed 3,142 passes for 39,549 yards, and 801 touchdowns. He is also the winningest quarterback in AFL history, with 134 regular season victories and 21 playoff wins (as of April 2nd, 2007). He is widely considered one of the greatest players in AFL history.

On Friday, April 7, 2006, he managed to get his 100th career win as his Arizona Rattlers won over the newly-formed Utah Blaze 64-52 on the road.

On Saturday, April 28, 2007, in a 67-45 road loss to the New York Dragons, Bonner joined Clint Dolezel and Andy Kelly as the only quarterbacks to throw 800 career touchdown passes ^[2].

On Saturday, October 27, 2007, the Rattlers parted ways with Bonner after 14 seasons. He signed a two-year contract with the Chicago Rush on October 30, 2007^[3].

[edit] Statistics

Year	Comp.	Att.	Comp%	Yards	TD's	INT's	Rating
1993	2	5	40	26	0	0	57
1994	208	363	57.3	2685	46	12	98.5
1995	54	90	60	574	11	3	95.3
1996	286	462	61.9	3690	65	13	110.4
1997	241	400	60.3	3331	67	6	120.3
1998	295	451	65.4	3571	70	8	121
2000	269	473	56.9	3454	72	7	111.7
2001	193	297	65	2505	46	7	120.2
2002	270	439	61.5	3219	69	8	115.5
2003	289	431	67.1	3696	89	7	126.5
2004	348	536	64.9	3850	77	9	115
2005	189	320	59.1	2334	51	10	108.2
2006	295	507	58.2	3991	83	16	109.8
2007	315	498	63.3	4003	83	13	117.2
2008	60	94	63.8	783	16	3	116.3
Career statistics	3314	5366	61.8	41742	845	122	115.9