In , Tebow received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida to play for its famed football team, the Gators. He spent his freshman year as a backup, but became a key contributor for a team that went on to win the BCS Championship.
The following year he became the starting quarterback and won, among other honors, the Heisman Trophy for outstanding all-around player and the Davey O'Brien Award for outstanding quarterback. Running the "wildcat offense," an unpredictable formation in which the quarterback can be an active rushing threat, Tebow set numerous records in the season, including the Gators' single-game QB rushing mark yards and SEC single-season records for rushing touchdowns 20 and total touchdowns passing and rushing; At the close of the season, Tebow led his team to victory in the BCS National Championship game, and was named the winner of a slew of athletic awards.
Standing 6'3" tall and weighing around pounds, Tebow was referred to by one NFL coach as "the strongest human being that's ever played the position [of quarterback]. After a start to the season, Tebow replaced Orton as the Broncos' starting quarterback. In his first start, he led the Broncos to a come-from-behind overtime victory against the Miami Dolphins, after being down with less than three minutes left in the game.
Tebow led the team to six wins in their next eight games and into the playoffs. A few months after the season came to an end, in March , Tebow was traded to the New York Jets in a firestorm of media attention and scrutiny.
There was much debate as to whether he would replace Mark Sanchez as the team's starting quarterback. However, as the football season began, Sanchez remained in the leading position. Tebow only played briefly during the Jets' first game against the Buffalo Bills in September — a pattern that would prove to be consistent throughout the rest of the season. By the end of , he had participated in only 72 offensive snaps with the New York team.
In late April , the Jets released Tebow, after the team was unable to find a trade partner. In June , it was announced that the New England Patriots had signed Tebow, reportedly to a two-year contract. However, after spending 12 weeks as the quarterback for the Patriots, Tebow was released from his contract.
In , just 35 of the players drafted in remained on NFL rosters. And gosh, did Tebow have his moments. Love him or hate him, we all watched him run roughshod over the SEC in the late aughts.
And then, once he was out, when he signed with the Mets and smacked a home run in the first pitch of his first minor-league at bat — that was the epitome of his schtick. Sometimes down, never out, often downright astonishing.
This summer with the Jaguars, then, was totally out of character, a jarring punctuation mark at the end of a rambling story. It was sloppy, sad, a little bit embarrassing to watch. In a fairer league, where contracts are offered based on talent and promise rather than cronyism and potential jersey sales, Tebow would have been nothing more than a victim of those odds. The fourth preseason game is quite often the worst of the bunch, but there are plenty of reasons to tune in Thursday night.
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