34 Facts About Mitch Mustain

Mitchell Stewart Mustain was born on February 27,1988 and is an American former professional football player.

Mitch Mustain played high school football and baseball at Springdale High School in Springdale, Arkansas.

Mitch Mustain graduated from USC in 2010, and proceeded to have a professional football career in the AFL.

Mitch Mustain did not play baseball in college, opting instead to pursue a football career.

Mitch Mustain threw only five interceptions in 222 attempts and rushed for 350 yards and 14 touchdowns.

In 2005 as a senior, Mitch Mustain threw for 3,817 yards and set the state's highest classification single season record with 47 touchdowns and completed 69.3 percent of his pass attempts.

Mitch Mustain was named Mr Football in Arkansas by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Mitch Mustain started at quarterback for the West team in the 2006 edition of US Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas, where he was awarded the Hall Trophy as National High School Player of the Year.

Mitch Mustain similarly swept the other major 'national player of the year' awards for the season.

Mitch Mustain had told reporters he planned to play for either Notre Dame, Tennessee, Alabama, or his home-state Arkansas Razorbacks.

Mitch Mustain was the top quarterback in the nation coming out of high school in 2006, and was considered a better prospect than eventual Heisman Trophy-winner Tim Tebow.

On January 16,2006, Mitch Mustain informed Malzahn of his decision to commit to Arkansas, but only after Notre Dame Coach Charlie Weis opted to offer quarterback recruit Jimmy Clausen a scholarship over Mitch Mustain.

The offense was oriented around what was considered among the nation's best running back tandems, Darren McFadden, Peyton Hillis, and Felix Jones; as a result, Mitch Mustain's statistics did not match his high school numbers in a more pass-oriented offense.

Mitch Mustain finished the season with 894 yards passing, completing 69 out of 132 passes with 10 touchdowns and nine interceptions.

The day after Malzahn's announcement, Mitch Mustain requested permission to transfer to another university.

The announcement was one year to the day after Mitch Mustain initially announced his decision to sign with the Razorbacks out of high school.

Mitch Mustain enrolled at the University of Southern California on May 21,2007.

Mitch Mustain found the West Coast offense run at USC to be appealing; it differed from the spread offense run by Malzahn and appealed to his quarterback playing style.

Under NCAA transfer rules, Mitch Mustain sat out the 2007 season and served as the quarterback for the scout team.

Mitch Mustain became eligible to play again for the 2008 season, with three years of eligibility remaining.

The competition resulted in Mitch Mustain regaining the second spot for some games and Corp for others throughout the season.

Better results in practice, an injury to Barkley and a poor performance by Corp helped Mitch Mustain to become Barkley's backup.

Mitch Mustain continued to back up Barkley until Barkley was injured in the next-to-last game of the season, allowing Mitch Mustain to start his first football game since playing at Arkansas in 2006.

Moments after the drop, Mitch Mustain threw his only interception of the game to seal the loss.

Mitch Mustain was arrested on February 1,2011, for selling his prescription ADHD medication.

Mitch Mustain was rated the 24th best quarterback in the 2011 NFL draft by NFLDraftScout.

Mitch Mustain went undrafted in the 2011 NFL draft, and signed a 10-day free agent contract with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League on June 1,2011, to see if he could win a backup job.

Mitch Mustain was unable to impress and was released by the Tiger-Cats on June 10,2011.

On September 30,2011, Mitch Mustain signed with the Georgia Force of the Arena Football League.

In January 2013, Mitch Mustain signed with the San Jose SaberCats to backup legendary Arena Football League quarterback, Aaron Garcia.

Mitch Mustain replaced Michna on June 1,2013, after Michna was injured and was able to make his first AFL start the next week while Michna was out.

On January 27,2014, Mitch Mustain was traded, along with Jabari Fletcher, to the San Antonio Talons in exchange for Joe Sykes.

Mitch Mustain reported to spring training with the White Sox on March 8,2012.

Mitch Mustain made eleven appearances with Bristol before moving on to the Single-A Kannapolis Intimidators, where he pitched in eight contests.