Stan Humphries

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Stan Humphries
No. 16, 12
Position:Quarterback
Personal information
Born: (1965-04-14) April 14, 1965 (age 58)
Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.
Height:6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Weight:223 lb (101 kg)
Career information
High school:Southwood (Shreveport, Louisiana)
College:Northeast Louisiana
NFL draft:1988 / Round: 6 / Pick: 159
Career history
Career highlights and awards
NFL record
Career NFL statistics
Passing attempts:2,516
Passing completions:1,431
Completion percentage:56.9%
TDINT:89–84
Passing yards:17,191
Passer rating:75.8
Player stats at NFL.com · PFR

William Stanley Humphries (born April 14, 1965) is an American high school basketball coach and amateur golfer. He was previously a professional

1988 NFL Draft
.

College career

Playing for Northeast Louisiana (now Louisiana–Monroe), Humphries was quarterback on the team that won the 1987 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game. In two seasons, Humphries passed for 4,395 yards and 29 touchdowns. He still holds the record for 300-yard passing games with eight.

Professional career

Pre-draft measurables
Height Weight Hand span 40-yard dash 10-yard split 20-yard split
20-yard shuttle
Vertical jump
6 ft 1+78 in
(1.88 m)
223 lb
(101 kg)
10+14 in
(0.26 m)
4.93 s 1.75 s 2.84 s 4.56 s 28.0 in
(0.71 m)
All values from NFL Combine[1]

Washington

Humphries was selected by

1988 NFL Draft.[2] He made his first professional start in 1990 in Phoenix against the Cardinals with regular starter Mark Rypien
sidelined with an injury. Humphries went on to pass for 1,015 yards and three touchdowns in seven games in 1990. The following season, he won a Super Bowl ring with the Redskins as Rypien's backup.

San Diego

Humphries was traded to

1980 AFC Championship game. Their season ended the next week in a 31–0 loss to the Miami Dolphins
in the AFC Divisional Playoffs.

In

San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium upon arriving back from Pittsburgh. Despite losing Super Bowl XXIX 49–26 to the San Francisco 49ers
, more than 100,000 fans greeted the Chargers when they arrived back in San Diego after the game.

In 1997, Humphries was forced to retire after a series of concussions. During his career, he led the Chargers to three playoff appearances and the franchise's only Super Bowl appearance. Humphries started for San Diego from 1992 to 1997, making 81 starts in 88 games while completing 1,431 of 2,516 passes for 17,191 yards and 89 touchdowns. San Diego was 47–29 (62 percent) in regular-season games and 3–3 in playoff contests he started. He was inducted into the Chargers Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2009, he was one of four quarterbacks named on the franchise's 50th anniversary team. In 2004, Humphries was also inducted by the San Diego Hall of Champions into the Breitbard Hall of Fame honoring San Diego's finest athletes both on and off the playing surface.[3] He was inducted into the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.[4]

Post-playing career

Humphries became a college football commentator, and also hosts his namesake celebrity golf tournament, which has raised more than $1 million over the years for Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego.

Currently, Humphries has served as head girls basketball at

Ouachita Christian School in Monroe, Louisiana since 2017.[5]

Golf

Humphries has qualified for amateur golf's

United States Senior Amateur Championship
in 2022 and the R&A Senior Amateur Championship in 2023, finishing fourth in the latter.

References

  1. ^ "Stan Humphries, Combine Results, QB - Louisiana-Monroe". nflcombineresults.com. Retrieved January 31, 2022.
  2. ^ "1988 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved September 23, 2023.
  3. ^ "Stan Humphries". San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum. Archived from the original on October 2, 2009. Retrieved September 23, 2010.
  4. ^ Dubenetzky, Jim (June 25, 2007). "Stan Humphries Inducted into Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame". Chargers Gab. Archived from the original on December 24, 2010.
  5. ^ Eisenberg, Jeff (January 28, 2020). "Stan Humphries' journey from Super Bowl QB to high school basketball coach". Yahoo Sports.