Taylor Potts

Quick Facts

Full Name	Taylor Potts
Occupation	American Football Player
Date Of Birth	Oct 13, 1987(1987-10-13)
Age	37
Country	United States
Birth City	Abilene
Horoscope	Libra

Taylor Potts Biography

Taylor Potts is one of the most popular and richest American Football Player who was born on October 13, 1987 in Abilene, United States. Taylor Potts (born October 13 1987) is an ex- American football player. He played for the college team in the Texas Tech University. Texas Tech, and was accepted to the St. Louis Rams as an free agent who was not drafted in the year 2011. He was released during training camp. He was became a free agent from the San Diego Chargers in May 2012, and was scheduled to be a contender for the third quarterback position.

After fighting with Steven Sheffield for the starting quarterback spot in summer and spring practices, Potts was named the starting quarterback for in the season of 2010 under the new Red Raider head coach Tommy Tuberville and offensive coordinator Neal Brown. Potts had a hand injury during spring 2010 training sessions and was unable to participate in the spring Red-Black practice. But, he was selected as the Tech’s starter for their game opener, which was against SMU. Potts passed for 359 yards and completed 33 of 53 throws during Tech’s victory over SMU. Potts was the starting quarterback for Tech during the regular season, except for the game on Nov. 6 against No. 14 Missouri. Sheffield was the first to start the Missouri game but Potts arrived just after halftime and helped lead Tech in a 24-17 victory against the Tigers. Potts received the honor of being named AT&T/ESPN All-America Player of the Week after he threw for a record 462 Cotton Bowl yards in Tech’s win of 45-38 against Baylor at the end of October. 9. In his last home game against Houston on the 27th of November, Potts threw for 373 yards in a win of 35-20 against the Cougars. In the entire season, Potts finished with 3,726 passing yards and completed the ball on 369 out of 551 attempts (67.0 percentage) with 10 interceptions and 35 touchdowns. The final season of his career ended as Tech’s fourth-ranked leader for pass yards (7,835) and Tech’s third-ranked leader all-time in touchdown passes, with 62.

Potts went undrafted in the 2011 NFL Draft and was later signed by the St. Louis Rams on July 26, 2011, but was waived on August 15.

Texas Tech faced Northwestern in the inaugural TicketCity Bowl, played on January 1, 2011, in the historic Cotton Bowl stadium. Potts threw for 369 yards, completing 43 of 56 passes in Tech’s 45–38 win over the Wildcats. Potts connected with former high school teammate Lyle Leong Jr. for two touchdown and also had scoring passes to Austin Zouzalik and Tramain Swindall. Potts also scored one touchdown on a perfectly executed trick play, a double pass from Potts to Zouzalik and back to Potts. For his efforts, Potts was named offensive Most Valuable Player for the game.

Potts played as an assistant to nationally-renowned football player Graham Harrell and took over the role of the starter during in the season 2009.

Taylor Potts Net Worth

Taylor Potts is one of the richest American Football Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Taylor Potts 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Potts played his freshman year being the “redshirt,” seeing no games, but was part of the Scout team. Then, he was an alternate in place of Graham Harrell for the 2007 and 2008 seasons, and saw little playing time in the various Tech wins that were blowouts. In the two seasons, the quarterback threw 669 yards with 5 touchdowns and two interceptions.

Potts is named the Harrell’s son-in-law as well as his replacement in the eyes of Mike Leach in April 2009. Potts defeated his former walk-on and classmate Steven Sheffield and highly touted Redshirt freshman Seth Doege. In his debut game against his team, the North Dakota Fighting Sioux, Potts completed 34 out of 48 passes , gaining 405 yards 2 touchdowns on the passing side and 2 on the ground. He also was intercepted three times in a 38-13 victory. In the following game with his team, the Rice Owls, Potts threw seven touchdowns and had no interceptions in a 55-10 victory. In recognition of his efforts, he was awarded the Big 12 Offensive player of the week. The following month, Potts played his best game to date when the team faced off against the #2 Texas Longhorns led by Colt McCoy. Potts started slowly but finished having 46 completions of his 62 attempts, for 3 touchdowns, 420 yards as well as an intercept. Potts was hit hard at the hands of Texas Defense End Sergio Kindle that caused a error that ultimately sealed the win for the Longhorns. But he recovered and threw his second touchdown at Tramain Swindall. Even though the team lost 34-24, analysts observed that Potts beat McCoy with higher numbers and also playing in an unfriendly environment against the top two team, and suffering a brutal blow during the process. Tech fans were optimistic following their victory in the Texas game, but an eerie loss at 29-28 in the game against Houston’s Houston Cougars in which the Texas Tech offense was unable to score on the fourth goal inside the game, which that led to the Houston win. The critics blamed Potts inability to make use of his 6’6 frame in order to drive the ball into the goal and secure the win. The next game was with the New Mexico Lobos, Potts began slow, and was forced to leave the field due to a concussion. When the score was being tied at 7 with just a minute remaining, back-up Steven Sheffield came in and scored to give the Raiders the lead on their way to a victory of 48-28. Potts was transported to the hospital for treatment and sat out the following two games in which Sheffield was able to lead Tech to crushing wins over Kansas State and Nebraska 66-14 and 31-10 and 31-10, respectively. Potts was back as the starting quarterback against the Texas A&M Aggies as Sheffield injured his foot while playing Nebraska. Potts did not play well and was sacked by Leach and replaced by Seth Doege to the chants from the crowd “No more Potts.” Tech was defeated by A&M 52-30. Doege was the starter in the next match against the Kansas Jayhawks but was largely ineffective, and Potts was the one to lead the Raiders to victory by 42-21 on the strength of their ground play. Potts played a decent game despite losing at Oklahoma State, 24-17 in the following game. Potts had his best win of the season with a 41-13 win over Oklahoma State. Oklahoma Sooners and finished the season with a victory of 20-13 against Baylor Bears. Baylor Bears, giving Tech an overall record of 8-4 and 5-3 record in Big 12 play.

Potts is a member of the Churches of Christ. Potts is a Republican. As of 2011, Potts was engaged to Erin Methvin, alumna of Lubbock Christian University.

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