Brayden Tyler "Brady" Quinn (born October 27, 1984 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American football quarterback for Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. Quinn was drafted by the Browns with the twenty-second overall pick of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Notre Dame, where he set many school records and won the 2006 Maxwell Award as the best college football player in the nation.
Prior to the start of the 2006 college football season, Brady Quinn was featured in a regional cover on the 2006-08-22 issue of Sports Illustrated's 2006 College Football Preview issue along with then-teammates Tom Zbikowski and Travis Thomas with the caption "Notre Dame: The Battle For No. 1." Quinn was expected to lead his Fighting Irish squad as one of the best college football quarterbacks in the country. However, the team's #2 pre-season ranking was put to the test in games against the Michigan Wolverines on 2006-09-16 in which the Irish lost 47-21 and USC Trojans on November 25, 2006 in which the Irish lost 24-44. Arguably, these were the team's two biggest games of the season, and proved to be the team's only regular-season losses.
However, despite the somewhat disappointing season for the Fighting Irish in which the team finished ranked #11, Quinn posted rather impressive numbers, finishing the season with 3,426 yards on 289 completions out of 467 attempts for a completion percentage of 61.9% and 7.34 yards-per-attempt. He threw 37 touchdowns to only 7 interceptions, and was sacked 31 times. Brady finished the regular season with a passing efficiency rating of 146.65, which ranked him 18th in the country.
