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| Born: | November 14, 1982 Altoona, Iowa | ||||||
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| College: | Purdue | ||||||
| NFL draft: | 2005 / Round: 4 / Pick: 106 | ||||||
| Career history | |||||||
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| Roster status: | Active | ||||||
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Kyle Raymond Orton (born November 14, 1982 in Altoona, Iowa) is an American football quarterback for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Purdue.
High school career
Kyle Orton attended Southeast Polk High School in Runnells (now Pleasant Hill), Iowa, where he also participated in basketball, tennis, and track and field.
At the end of his high school career, Orton was the No. 2 ranked QB in the nation by SuperPrep and No. 7 by Rivals.com. His career passing statistics were 208 for 450 (46.2%), 3,176 yards with 24 touchdowns, and 18 interceptions. He earned honorable mention all-state and first team all-conference his senior year, after completing 95 of 192 attempts (49.5%), 1,366 yards with 12 touchdowns, and 5 interceptions.[1]
Orton wore uniform No. 18 in honor of former Nebraska Cornhuskers' quarterback Brook Berringer who died in a plane crash in 1996.[2]
College career
Orton grew up a Husker fan, but chose to attend a program with a stronger passing attack. Orton tied former Purdue quarterback Drew Brees' record for number of passing yards in a game (522 vs. Indiana Hoosiers), and is the only Purdue quarterback to start four consecutive bowl games (Brees and Mark Herrmann started three straight). Orton started in the 2001, '02 and '04 Sun Bowl and the 2003 Capital One Bowl.
In 2004, Orton was the preseason third-team "All-American" quarterback, behind USC's Matt Leinart and Oklahoma's Jason White. Orton had a nice start to the season, having led Purdue to a 5-0 start with 18 touchdowns and no interceptions. He was a Heisman Trophy hopeful, until his fumble was run back for a touchdown late in the 4th quarter against the undefeated 12th ranked Wisconsin Badgers, giving the 5th ranked Purdue its first of several losses that season. Later that season, he received multiple injuries, in consecutive games against Michigan and Northwestern forcing him to lose his starting position for a month. Brandon Kirsch then replaced him during that time.
Orton makes a cameo in NCAA Football 2006, where he says "EA Sports, it's in the game," along with Derek Anderson in the game's introduction.
Professional career
Chicago Bears
2005
In the 2005 NFL season, Orton was rushed into the Bears starting lineup as a rookie after a preseason injury to starter Rex Grossman, and the poor play of back-up Chad Hutchinson.
Orton started 15 games of the season, however was replaced by Grossman after halftime during the Bears' Week 15 victory against the Atlanta Falcons.
After sitting for Week 16, Orton started the regular season finale, Week 17, against the Minnesota Vikings. The outcome of this game, for the Chicago Bears, did not have any effect on their post-season hopes. The Bears had already clinched the NFC North championship and a first-round bye in the 2005-06 playoffs with their Week 16 victory over the Green Bay Packers. Grossman then started for the Bears in their only post-season game. They lost to the Carolina Panthers.[3]
Overall, the Bears had a record of 10-5 in games that Orton started, including an eight-game winning streak after a 1-3 start. Despite the team's success, Orton finished with the lowest quarterback rating in the NFL (59.7) among all "qualified" quarterbacks (those with 224+ pass attempts).[4] Despite the low rating, the Bears coaches repeatedly insisted that they were pleased with Orton's performance. The coaching staff asked Orton to minimize mistakes and to let the rushing attack and the defense win ballgames rather than employing an aggressive passing attack.
Measuring Orton's victories, his rookie season was successful. His 15 starts and 10 victories are both rookie records for Bears quarterbacks, and the 10 victories are the third most in the NFL, since 1970, behind Ben Roethlisberger's 14 victories in '04, and Joe Flacco's and Matt Ryan's 11 victories in '08.
2006
Following the 2005 season, the Bears signed veteran Brian Griese as the team’s second string quarterback. Orton, now demoted, became the Bears’ third-string quarterback, and did not see any playtime throughout the entire 2006 season.
2007
The following off-season, the Bears acquired Chris Leak, who had previously led the Florida Gators to a BCS Championship, shortly after the 2007 NFL Draft. Leak struggled in training camp, while Orton, who had trained in the off season, excelled but was placed at third string.[5] According to the Chicago Tribune, Orton was en route to overtake Griese's (then) second string position.[6] Orton continued to show signs of improvement in the preseason. He completed sixteen of twenty-five passes for 151 yards and one touchdown en route to leading the Bears to a comeback victory over the Houston Texans.[7]
After the Bears lost their chances of making a post-season berth, Lovie Smith chose to start Orton over Griese.[8] Orton made his first start in nearly two seasons on December 17, 2007 against the Minnesota Vikings. The Bears lost the game 20-13. Orton finished with 22 completions on 38 attempts, 184 yards, and 1 interception.[9] He improved in the final two meaningless games of the season, leading the Bears to two consecutive victories, passing for 294 yards, 3 touchdowns and an interception.[10]
2008
On February 25, 2008 the Bears and Orton agreed to a one-year contract extension running through the 2009 season. Competition for the starting quarterback job was expected to be fierce with Rex Grossman, during training camp.
On August 18, after deadlock against Grossman in games with the Kansas City Chiefs and Seattle Seahawks, Bears head coach Lovie Smith named Orton the team's starting QB for the 2008 season in Week 3 of the preseason, despite not throwing a pass over 17 yards or for a touchdown in the first two preseason games.[11]
On September 7, 2008, Orton led the Bears to a 29-13 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in the first regular season game of the season. He threw for a career high 334 yards and two touchdowns, while completing 24 of 34 passes in a 34-7 victory over the Detroit Lions.[12] He finished the game with a career high, at that time, passer rating of 121.4.
From the start of November 2008, Kyle Orton passed for ten touchdowns, and four interceptions, leading the Bears to a 4-3 record. Orton sustained an ankle injury against the Detroit Lions in Week 9 of the NFL season,[13] and did not start the next week. He rushed himself back into the starting lineup a week after Grossman had a solid outing for someone coming off the bench against the Titans. After his return, Orton threw eight touchdowns, and eight interceptions while averaging a quarterback rating of 66.9, including ratings of 39.1 against Minnesota, 49.2 against New Orleans, and 48.7 against Green Bay.[10]
The Bears finished the season with a 9-7 record, while missing the playoffs by one game.[14] Coach Lovie Smith was pleased with Orton's performance and believed he would be the team's starting quarterback for the following season.[15] However, Jerry Angelo, the team's general manager, stated he wished to further solidify the quarterback position in the long run.[16]
Denver Broncos
2009
On April 2, 2009, the Bears traded Orton (along with their first and third-round draft picks in 2009 and their first-round pick in '10) to the Denver Broncos for Pro Bowl quarterback Jay Cutler and the Broncos' fifth round pick in '09.[17]
On June 13, Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels declared Orton the starting quarterback for the season. Orton led the Broncos to a 12-7 victory in the 2009 season opener against the Cincinnati Bengals. The game was won on a deflected pass that landed in the arms of Brandon Stokley who took it 87 yards for a touchdown.[18]
Over the next five weeks, Orton led the Broncos to a surprising 6-0 record to begin the season. His most impressive effort in that streak came against the New England Patriots, when he completed 35-48 passes for 330 yards and orchestrated a 98-yard drive to tie the game and send it into overtime. He threw his first interception of the season to Randy Moss at the end of the first half. It was his first in 173 pass attempts which dated back to 2008 when he was with the Chicago Bears. He led another drive for the game-winning field goal in overtime.[19] On Tuesday, October 13, 2009, Kyle Orton was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week, for that effort.[20]
On Nov. 15, Orton suffered an ankle injury on the road against the Washington Redskins. He came out of the game at halftime with a career high passer rating of 134.7. The injury kept him from starting the next game against the Chargers. He did return partway through that game, replacing Chris Simms.
For the 2009 season (playing in 16 games with 15 starts), Orton threw 21 touchdown passes and 12 interceptions with an 86.8 QB rating.
2010
Orton was named the Broncos starting quarterback for 2010. He signed a one-year contract extension (through the 2011 season), on August 19, 2010. On September 26, 2010, Orton threw for 476 yards against the Indianapolis Colts, a career-high. Less than two months later, November 14, Orton threw a career-high four touchdown passes against the Kansas City Chiefs. Later in the season, Orton suffered an injury against the Kansas City Chiefs, and Tim Tebow played the last three games of the season.[21] Orton finished the season with 3,653 yards, 20 touchdowns, and nine interceptions.
2011
In July of 2011, the Broncos had a competition to see which quarterback would be named first on the depth chart. In August of 2011, Orton was named first-string quarterback, ahead of Tim Tebow, with Brady Quinn as 3rd-string. The Miami Dolphins had interest in Orton, instead of Tebow or Quinn.
Statistics
| Season | Team | Games | Passing | Sacks | Rushing | |||||||||||||
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| GP | GS | W-L[22] | Comp | Att | Pct | Yds | Y/Att | TD | INT | Rating | # | Yds | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | ||
| 2005 | Chicago Bears | 15 | 15 | 10-5 | 190 | 368 | 51.6 | 1,869 | 5.1 | 9 | 13 | 59.7 | 30 | 190 | 24 | 44 | 1.8 | 0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | |
| 2007 | 3 | 3 | 2-1 | 43 | 80 | 53.8 | 478 | 6.0 | 3 | 2 | 73.9 | 2 | 12 | 5 | -1 | -0.2 | 0 | |
| 2008 | 15 | 15 | 9-6 | 272 | 465 | 58.5 | 2,972 | 6.4 | 18 | 12 | 79.6 | 27 | 160 | 24 | 49 | 2.0 | 3 | |
| 2009 | Denver Broncos | 16 | 15 | 8-7 | 336 | 541 | 62.1 | 3,802 | 7.0 | 21 | 12 | 86.8 | 29 | 159 | 24 | 71 | 3.0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 13 | 13 | 3-10 | 293 | 498 | 58.8 | 3,653 | 7.3 | 20 | 9 | 87.5 | 34 | 243 | 22 | 98 | 4.4 | 0 | |
| Total | 62 | 61 | 32-30 | 1,134 | 1,952 | 58.1 | 12,774 | 6.5 | 71 | 48 | 79.6 | 122 | 764 | 99 | 261 | 2.6 | 3 | |
2010 reflects up to Week 16.[23]
See also
References
- ^ Player Bio: Kyle Orton
- ^ Orton Profile - Chicago Roster
- ^ Yahoo Sports: Chicago Bears 2005 Season
- ^ NFL Player Passing Statistics - 2005
- ^ Mayer, Larry, Slimmed-down Orton turning heads in camp (August 1, 2007), chicagobears.com. Retrieved on August 5, 2007.
- ^ Mullin, John (August 11, 2007). "Veterans relive exhibition but some Bears have things to prove". Chicago Tribune. pp. 1, 8.
{{cite news}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ NFL.com, Texans fall to Bears in Schaub's debut, (August 11, 2007). Retrieved on August 13, 2007.
- ^ ChicagoBears.com, Excited Bears quarterback settling in under center. Retrieved on December 17, 2007.
- ^ Yahoo! Sports, Minnesota 20, Chicago 13, Retrieved on December 17, 2007.
- ^ a b NFL.com, Kyle Orton: Game Logs, Retrieved on February 9, 2008.
- ^ ChicagoBears.com, Bears name Orton their starting quarterback, Retrieved on August 18, 2008
- ^ Yahoo!Sports,Chicago 34, Detroit 7, Retrieved on October 15, 2008.
- ^ Seligman, Andrew (2008-11-02). "Grossman comes off bench to help Bears beat Lions". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Biggs, Brad (2008-12-19). "Bears have no one to blame but themselves after loss". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Crist, John (2008-12-31). "If Not Orton, then Who Under Center?". Scout.com. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Mayer, Larry (2008-12-30). "Solidifying QB position remains one of Angelo's top priorities". chicagobears.com. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ "New home Chicago: Broncos ship disgruntled QB Cutler to Bears". Retrieved 2009-04-02.
- ^ Stokley catches tipped pass, runs 87 yards for winning TD ESPN.com, 13 September 2009. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
- ^ Orton orchestrates game-tying drive as Broncos finish off Patriots in OT
- ^ Denver Post
- ^ Kiszla, Mark (2011-01-16). "Suspicious minds believe Tebow the only choice". Denver Post. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ Games won or lost with Orton as starter. Does count the win on 11/2/2008 in which Orton was replaced with the Bears trailing by 10; also counts the loss on 11/15/2009, which Orton started and exited with an injury at halftime with the Broncos leading 17-14. Does not count the loss on 11/22/2009, which Orton entered at 4:19 in the second quarter with the Broncos then trailing 0-13.
- ^ NFL.com: Kyle Orton Profile