32 Facts About Geroy Simon

Geroy Simon was born on September 11,1975 and is an American football executive and former player who is the executive director of revenue share management and general manager of the Maryland Terrapins football team.

Geroy Simon played in 15 seasons at slotback in the Canadian Football League, twelve of them with the BC Lions.

Geroy Simon won the CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award in 2006 while winning three Grey Cup championships; with the BC Lions in 2006 and 2011 and with Saskatchewan in 2013.

Geroy Simon was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 2017.

Geroy Simon finished second on the University of Maryland's all-time charts for receptions and receiving yards, and caught 10 career touchdown passes.

Geroy Simon had his best season as a sophomore, setting an ACC record with 77 catches for 891 yards and 5 touchdowns.

Geroy Simon caught 51 passes for 725 yards and 7 TDs in 2000, all career numbers at the time.

Geroy Simon threw for a 71-yard touchdown toss in his only attempt of the season.

Geroy Simon established career highs in kick returns with 51 punt returns for 464 yards, 19 kickoff returns for 385 yards and six missed field goal returns for 128 yards.

Geroy Simon scored his first two-point conversion on a five-yard reception.

Geroy Simon had a career-high seven carries for 135 yards and one rushing touchdown.

Geroy Simon broke Darren Flutie's BC Lions team record for single season receiving with 1,750 yards.

Geroy Simon tied the CFL record for most 100-yard receiving games in a season with 11.

Geroy Simon capped off the season by contributing four catches for 41 yards in the BC Lions' 2006 Grey Cup win.

Geroy Simon set a personal best 18.2-yard average per catch and claimed his second straight receiving title with a 211-yard performance in the final game of the season.

Geroy Simon finished the season with 10,262 career receiving yards.

Geroy Simon became the Lions all-time receiving touchdown leader surpassing Young's 65 with his 66th touchdown on 27 September 2008 versus the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Geroy Simon finished the season with eight 100-yard receiving games and finished second in receiving despite missing two games with injury.

Nonetheless, Geroy Simon had 79 receptions for 1,239 yards, securing his seventh straight 1,000-yard receiving yards season.

Geroy Simon came into the season needing 1417 receiving yards to pass Milt Stegall as the CFL's all-time leader in receiving yardage.

Geroy Simon missed the first 3 weeks of the 2013 CFL season with a lower body injury.

On 17 August 2013 Geroy Simon became the 3rd player in CFL history to have 1,000 career receptions: The other players are Ben Cahoon and Terry Vaughn In Week 9 Geroy Simon became the first CFL player to have 16,000 receiving yards.

In Week 14, against the Montreal Alouettes, Geroy Simon became the CFL's all time receptions leader.

Geroy Simon surpassed Ben Cahoon's record of 1,017 career receptions.

On May 31,2014, Geroy Simon announced his retirement from professional football.

Geroy Simon took up baseball and track, but became attracted to football after watching Walter Payton.

Geroy Simon was together with his wife, Tracy Geroy Simon, for 17 years before she died.

Geroy Simon's eldest son Gervon, who was born when Geroy was a freshman at Maryland, was formerly the starting quarterback at Greater Johnstown High School - Geroy's alma mater - who finished as the all-time passing yards leader.

Geroy Simon returned to the BC Lions in 2015 and served as the team's Director for Global Scouting and a US Regional Scout.

On July 15,2024, following the dismissal of general manager, Chris Jones, Geroy Simon was named the team's interim general manager.

On November 9,2024, it was announced that Ed Hervey had been named general manager for the Elks and Geroy Simon was not retained.

In 2025, Geroy Simon was named executive director of revenue share management and general manager of the Maryland Terrapins football team.