Chad Martin Hutchinson was born on February 21,1977 and is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and Chicago Bears.
32 Facts About Chad Hutchinson
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Chad Hutchinson is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the St Louis Cardinals.
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Chad Hutchinson was a two-year starter at outside linebacker that switched to quarterback as a senior, to take advantage of his mobility and arm strength.
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Chad Hutchinson was a rare two-sport standout, that showed the talent to play professional baseball after his fastball was clocked at 94-mph.
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Chad Hutchinson accepted a football scholarship from Stanford University over professional baseball.
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Chad Hutchinson finished the season with 11 starts, 190 out of 312 completions for 2,134 yards, 10 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.
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Chad Hutchinson's development in football came without the benefit of spring practice, because he was a starting pitcher for the Stanford Cardinal baseball team.
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Chad Hutchinson ranked among the league leaders in complete games, innings pitched and strikeouts per-nine-innings.
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Chad Hutchinson received first-team Freshman All-American and honorable-mention All-Pac-10 honors.
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Chad Hutchinson contributed to the team winning the Pac-10 Southern Division championship in 1997 and 1998.
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Chad Hutchinson decided to attend college, even after the Braves met most of his demands.
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Chad Hutchinson was selected in the second round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft by the St Louis Cardinals.
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Chad Hutchinson tied for the team lead in wins and finished second with 150 strikeouts in 141 innings pitched.
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Chad Hutchinson struck out 10 or more in three of his starts and was a part of three combined shutouts.
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Chad Hutchinson earned a win at Vancouver by striking out 11 in 6 innings.
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Chad Hutchinson pitched only 56.1 innings on the year, posting 63 strikeouts and ranking eighth in the Cardinals organization with 10.1 strikeouts-per-nine innings pitched.
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Chad Hutchinson opened the season at Memphis, but got off to a bad start before being sent to Arkansas.
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Chad Hutchinson pitched well in 8 starts for the Travelers, allowing just one unearned run over 18 innings in one stretch, before being shelved with right elbow problems for more than two months.
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Chad Hutchinson returned to pitch three games at season's end, recording 15 strikeouts and 3 walks in 11 innings.
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Chad Hutchinson then played for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League.
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Chad Hutchinson pitched in the Major Leagues in three games, all in relief, for the St Louis Cardinals during the 2001 season.
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Chad Hutchinson did not fare well, giving up 16 base runners and 11 earned runs in just four total innings.
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In 2002, as a 25-year-old rookie, Chad Hutchinson was named the starter after a struggling Quincy Carter lost to the Arizona Cardinals and engaged in a heated sideline argument with Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones.
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Chad Hutchinson finished with nine starts, completing 127 out of 250 attempts for 1,555 yards, 7 touchdown passes, 8 interceptions and set an NFL rookie record by throwing 95 straight passes without an interception to start a career.
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In 2003, with the arrival of new head coach Bill Parcells, all positions were opened to competition, and Chad Hutchinson became involved in a publicized quarterback controversy, when he and Carter competed for a roster spot in the 2002 edition of Hard Knocks, an HBO series that covers the training camp of an NFL team.
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Chad Hutchinson saw his only action of the season in the sixth game against the Detroit Lions, taking over for Carter for the final four drives, completing one out of two passes for 8 yards.
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Chad Hutchinson became part of a succession of short-tenured quarterbacks following the retirement of Aikman, which included Carter, Randall Cunningham, Testaverde, Drew Bledsoe, Anthony Wright, Ryan Leaf, Henson and Clint Stoerner.
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Chad Hutchinson played inconsistently before suffering a sprained right shoulder in the week 8 contest against the Cologne Centurions, forcing him to miss the final 2 games and losing nearly a month rehabilitating it back to health.
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On September 29,2004, Chad Hutchinson was signed as a free agent by the Chicago Bears, after Rex Grossman suffered a season-ending knee injury in the third game of the season, reuniting with quarterback coach Wade Wilson who held that position with the Cowboys.
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Chad Hutchinson would become the fourth quarterback that year to start for the team, after Jonathan Quinn and Craig Krenzel were ineffective in their appearances.
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Chad Hutchinson's wife is the sister of baseball player Todd Walker.
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Chad Hutchinson's father Lloyd was an outfielder in the Philadelphia Phillies' farm system and his brother Trevor was a pitcher in the Florida Marlins organization.