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Warren Moon, who made seven playoff appearances, was the first Black quarterback elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [3] During his NFL career (1984–2000), he was the first Black quarterback on four different teams. [1] [21] The 2023–2024 playoffs featured six starting Black quarterbacks, the most in NFL history. [24] [f]
In gridiron football and its variants, American football and Canadian football, the quarterback position is often considered the most important on the team. While there have been a growing number of players of African or minority descent throughout the history of collegiate and professional football, Black players have historically faced difficulty in landing and retaining quarterback roles ...
Sanford Emory Stephens II (September 21, 1940 – June 6, 2000) was an American football player and civic leader. Stephens was born and raised in the Pittsburgh area city of Uniontown, Pennsylvania and is best known for his career as a college football quarterback for the Minnesota Golden Gophers, where he became one of the first African-American quarterbacks in major college football and the ...
He was the first quarterback in Buccaneer history capable of throwing long passes downfield. [9] In a 1979 game against the Chicago Bears, Williams and Bears quarterback Vince Evans made history by making it the first NFL game ever to have a black starting quarterback on both teams. [10]
The American Football League had the first Black placekicker in U.S. professional football, Gene Mingo of the Denver Broncos (Mingo's primary claim to fame, however, was as a running back, and was only secondarily a placekicker); and the first Black regular starting quarterback of the modern era, Marlin Briscoe of the Denver Broncos. [40]
But Black college football quarterbacks aren’t one. There was Condredge Holloway, who made history at Tennessee as the first Black starting quarterback at an SEC school in 1972 .
The Black College Football Hall of Fame (BCFHOF) [1] is an American hall of fame for college football players, coaches and contributors from historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). It was founded in 2009 in Atlanta , centrally located to many of the country's black universities. [ 2 ]
On Friday night, the Florida A&M quarterback earned a share of the Deacon Jones Trophy, given to the best player in Black College Football. Moussa co-accepted the award alongside North Carolina ...