Daniel “Colt” McCoy (born September 5, 1986) is an American football quarterback for the National Football League’s Arizona Cardinals (NFL). He attended Texas, where he earned several awards and honors as a senior in 2009. McCoy is second all-time in games won by an NCAA Division I FBS quarterback to Boise State’s Kellen Moore. The Cleveland Browns selected him in the third round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He has also played for the San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, and New York Giants, primarily as a backup quarterback.
Where did Colt McCoy go to college? Did Colt McCoy play college football?
McCoy attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he played for coach Mack Brown’s Texas Longhorns football team from 2005 to 2009. Colt was a four-year starter for the Longhorns from 2006 to 2009. He was the only player in school history to win or share the MVP award all four years.
He was given a redshirt year as a freshman, so he did not play during the team’s 2005 national championship season. In practice, he was the quarterback for the scout team against the starting defense. Matt McCoy (no relation) was officially listed as the third quarterback behind Vince Young and Matt Nordgren at the time. When Brown decided to play Matt McCoy in four different games where Texas had a commanding lead, confusion arose as to which McCoy was in the game.
Matt McCoy was frequently mispronounced as Colt McCoy by sportscasters because Colt was the more well-known player. The starting quarterback competition for the defending National Champion Texas Longhorns was between redshirt freshman Colt McCoy and true freshman Jevan Snead the following season after Young forewent his senior year to play in the NFL and Nordgren graduated.
