| Date of birth: | June 6, 1968 |
| Place of birth: | Dayton, Tennessee |
| Career information | |
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| Position(s): | Quarterback |
| Height: | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) |
| Weight: | 230 lb (100 kg) |
| College: | Tennessee |
| Organizations | |
| As player: | |
| 1993-1996 1996 1997-2001 2002 2003-2004 2005 2006 2006 2007 |
Charlotte Rage Rhein Fire Nashville Kats Dallas Desperados Detroit Fury New Orleans VooDoo Kansas City Brigade Utah Blaze New Orleans Voodoo |
Andy Kelly (born June 6, 1968) is a former American football quarterback in the Arena Football League. He played in the AFL for fifteen seasons. He also played for two seasons for the Rhein Fire of the former World League of American Football.
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Kelly attended Rhea County High School in Evensville, Tennessee. While attending, he won Gatorade All-America honors in football as a senior.
Kelly was a successful collegiate quarterback at the University of Tennessee from 1988-1991. He took over as a starter for Sterling Henton in the 1989 SEC game against the Alabama Crimson Tide. He set numerous Tennessee and SEC passing records, most of them broken by his later successor at Tennessee, Peyton Manning. He was also drafted to play baseball with the Atlanta Braves, but never actually did so.
Kelly's predominant professional football career was as an Arena Football League quarterback playing some of his career with the with the New Orleans VooDoo, for whom he played for in 2005 and 2007. He previously played for the Charlotte Rage (1993, 1995–96), Nashville Kats (1997–2001), Dallas Desperados (2002), Detroit Fury (2003–2004), Kansas City Brigade (2006) and Utah Blaze (2006). At the end of the 2006 season, he held several all-time AFL career records, including touchdown passes (767), passing yards (39,948), pass attempts (5,827), pass completions (3,621), and interceptions (155).
On Friday, April 27, 2007, in a 72-57 home loss to division-mate Georgia, Kelly joined Aaron Garcia, Clint Dolezel, and Sherdrick Bonner as the only quarterbacks in football history to throw 800 career touchdowns.
On December 6, 2007, Kelly was named the head coach of the proposed new All American Football League's Tennessee team. The league suspended operations March 12, 2008 (permanently, as things later developed, although only a delay was announced at the time), and Kelly signed with the Georgia Force two weeks later on March 26, 2008, but never participated as an active player for the Force. Kelly retired as an Arena Football player following the 2008 season and currently serves as a commentator on Tennessee Volunteers football radio broadcasts.
| Year | Comp. | Att. | Comp% | Yards | TD's | INT's | Rating |
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| 1993 | 178 | 332 | 53.6 | 2139 | 34 | 15 | 80.3 |
| 1995 | 95 | 166 | 57.2 | 1004 | 16 | 8 | 78.9 |
| 1996 | 58 | 94 | 61.7 | 671 | 8 | 1 | 100 |
| 1997 | 309 | 497 | 62.2 | 3821 | 82 | 14 | 113.7 |
| 1998 | 315 | 518 | 60.8 | 3537 | 73 | 12 | 106.7 |
| 1999 | 324 | 501 | 64.7 | 3609 | 67 | 11 | 110.2 |
| 2000 | 283 | 429 | 66 | 3107 | 55 | 10 | 109.5 |
| 2001 | 230 | 382 | 60.2 | 2699 | 47 | 7 | 104.8 |
| 2002 | 319 | 511 | 62.4 | 3295 | 73 | 16 | 105.4 |
| 2003 | 392 | 654 | 59.9 | 3967 | 92 | 20 | 99.7 |
| 2004 | 360 | 587 | 61.3 | 4184 | 73 | 12 | 105.4 |
| 2005 | 466 | 700 | 66.6 | 4657 | 96 | 12 | 112.4 |
| 2006 (Utah Blaze) | 115 | 162 | 71 | 1402 | 27 | 4 | 126.5 |
| 2006 (Kansas City Brigade) | 177 | 294 | 60.2 | 1856 | 24 | 13 | 80.5 |
| 2007 | 265 | 397 | 66.8 | 2571 | 42 | 9 | 101.7 |
| Career Statistics | 3886 | 6224 | 62.4 | 42519 | 809 | 164 | 104 |
| Preceded by Jeff Francis |
Tennessee Volunteers Starting Quarterbacks 1989-1991 |
Succeeded by Heath Shuler |
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