Colt McCoy is an American award-winning quarterback (QB) football player who began his professional career in the National Football League (NFL) after being selected in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns. On April 3, 2014, McCoy signed with the Washington Redskins and currently plays for the team.
Daniel “Colt” McCoy, also known as Colt McCoy, was born on September 5, 1986 in Hobbs, New Mexico to Steven Brad McCoy and Debra Kay (Woodruff) McCoy. He is the first child in the family.
Colt started playing football at a young ageI come from a family of athletes. His grandfather, Burl McCoy, was a former athlete and women’s basketball coach and a member of the Abilene Christian University (ACU) Sports Hall of Fame, while his father was a football coach.
During his days at Jim Ned High School in Tuscola, Texas, the football player was a standout player under coach Brad McCoy, his father. He was a two-time Associated Press 2A offensive MVP and first-team all-state selection. He is also the all-time leading passer in Texas Division 2A high school history and fourth in Texas high school history.
In 2005 he moved to the University of Texas, near Austin, where he played for the Texas Longhorns football team until 2009. As a freshman, he was called up to the new league. From 2006 to 2009, Colt McCoy was the team’s starter and the only player in school history to either win or share the team’s MVP for all of those four years.
The two-time Walter Camp Award recipient, who also played for the San Francisco 49ers, holds the Texas school record for most touchdown passes ever thrown by a quarterback in a season and most yards and wins. As a result of the records, his No. 12 jersey has since been retired.While in Austin, Texas, USAsuperstar QB was actively involved in the institution’s community service program. An active member of the Church of Christ, Colt attended Westover Hills Church of Christ in Austin, Texas and Oldham Lane Church of Christ when he moved to Buffalo Gap. Since 2002 he has also been a member of a youth group in the church.
NFL career
Playing for college after college football Colt McCoy, from Texas, took his football career to a new level by busting into the 2010 NFL Draft. He was selected in the third round by the Cleveland Browns as the 85th overall pick and on July 23, the two parties signed an agreement to a four-year, $5 million contract.
It follows that the team already had three quarterbacks, Cleveland Browns president Mike Holmgren said it was likely McCoy would not play his first season with the team so he could properly coach as an NFL quarterback. However, fate had a different plan! Starting quarterback Jake Delhomme and backup Seneca Wallace suffered injuries. McCoy started his NFL career in Week 6 with a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers
In the eleventh week of the season, Colt McCoy sustained an ankle injury in the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, missed the next three weeks, and returned in the fifteenth week. While playing the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 14, he also suffered a concussion in a helmet-to-helmet kick with James Harrison, who was subsequently penalized.
McCoy, a runner-up and then finalist in the 2008 and 2009 Heisman Trophy, assisted Browns’ rookie pick Brandon Weeden throughout the 2012 season and subsequently completed 9 of 17 pass attempts for 79 yards when Weeden was injured in the game against the Denver Broncos.
The Browns traded him to the San Francisco 49ers on April 1, 2013. The following year, on April 3, 2014, he signed a one-year contract with the Washington Redskins. The contract was re-signed on March 17, 2015 and extended to three years on March 9, 2016.
The quarterback will continue to play for the Redskins in 2019 after inking a one-year, $7 million contract extension with the team.
his salary
Earlier in his career with the Cleveland Browns, Colt McCoy penned a four-year, $5 million contract and received a $751,000 signing bonus. On April 1, 2013, he was traded to San Francisco along with a 2013 sixth-round pick in exchange for the 2013 seventh-round and fifth-round picks in San Francisco. After that, there was a review of his salary from $1.5 million to $630,000.
In 2014, he signed a 1-year, $795,000 contract with the Washington Redskins, which was increased to $1.5 million in 2015. His average annual salary rose to $3 million in 2016 when the quarterback signed a new three-year contract with the team worth $9 million. On July 26, 2018, Colt McCoy signed a new one-year contract with the Redskins while his 2018 season remains unaffected by his previous contract. Under his most recent contract, $2 million of his $3 million base salary in 2019 is fully guaranteed.
Colt McCoy Family – wife and brother
Colt McCoy is married to former middle-distance athlete Rachel Glandorf for Baylor University. The duo met in Austin, Texas in the summer of 2008 while Rachel was an intern for Keye TV. She had interviewed the soccer star on various occasions before McCoy decided to ask her out.
Their relationship blossomed and on January 12, 2010, shortly after his team lost the 2010 BCS National Championship game, McCoy became engaged to Rachel. It was an emotional moment when McCoy brought his girlfriend onto the field on the video board at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin and showed her the jumbotron that said the question. “Rachel, I love you! Will you marry me? Colt. “Rachel, who was pleasantly surprised and completely in love, said ‘yes’.
About half a year later, on July 17, 2010, the couple walked the thread in an extravagant ceremony in which singers such as Aaron Watson and Jordan Shipley performed musically. Their union was blessed with two beautiful daughters – Sloane and Brooke; and a son.
The NFL player has two younger brothers, Fall McCoy and Chance McCoy. Having an older brother who was interested in sports likely upset Colt’s brothers as they both played college football. While Chance was studying at Abilene Christian University, where he played at grassroots level, Case, like his older brother, played quarterback for the University of Texas Longhorns football team, but left football after graduating. He currently resides in Austin where he works as a tenant broker specialist at HPI Corporate Services.
Height, weight and quick facts
Birth name: Daniel McCoy
Date of Birth: September 5, 1986
Place of birth: Hobbs, New Mexico
Entry: 2010 Draft, Round 3, #85 overall (Cleveland Browns)
Height: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight: 95kg
Arm length: 0.79 m
Hand size: 0.24 m
Zodiac sign: Virgo
