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Te XAN S<br />
Height: 6-1<br />
Weight: 222<br />
College: Kentucky<br />
<strong>Home</strong>town: Lexington, Kentucky<br />
2nd NFL Season<br />
2nd with <strong>Texans</strong><br />
Age as of Kickoff Weekend 2008: 25<br />
Acquired: FA, 2007<br />
2007 GP/GS: 0/0<br />
Career GP/GS: 0/0<br />
Teams: Arizona, 2006; <strong>Houston</strong>, 2007<br />
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SHANE BOYD<br />
QUARTERBACK<br />
veterans<br />
TRANSACTIONS: Signed by Tennessee Titans<br />
as an undrafted free agent on April 29, 2005…<br />
Waived by Titans on August 29, 2005…Signed<br />
by Pittsburgh Steelers on February 17, 2006<br />
and allocated to NFLEL Cologne Centurions…<br />
Waived by Steelers on September 2, 2006…<br />
Signed by Arizona Cardinals to practice squad<br />
on September 4, 2006…Signed to Cardinals<br />
active roster on December 26, 2006…Waived<br />
by Cardinals on August 31, 2007…Signed by<br />
<strong>Houston</strong> <strong>Texans</strong> to practice squad on October<br />
24, 2007…Signed by <strong>Texans</strong> to the active roster<br />
on December 7, 2007.<br />
PRO: Talented and athletic young quarterback<br />
who joined the <strong>Texans</strong> practice squad midway<br />
through the 2007 season after spending the<br />
preseason with the Arizona Cardinals…has also<br />
been in training camp with Tennessee in 2005<br />
and Pittsburgh in 2006…played for NFL Europe’s<br />
Cologne Centurions in 2006, where he threw for<br />
1,139 yards and five touchdowns and became<br />
the league’s single-season record holder for<br />
rushing yards by a quarterback, totaling 339<br />
yards and eclipsing previous record holder Jon<br />
Kitna by five yards.<br />
2007 (<strong>Houston</strong> 0/0): Went through training camp<br />
with the Arizona Cardinals but was released<br />
before the start of the regular season (8/31)…<br />
signed to the <strong>Texans</strong> practice squad in the<br />
middle of the season (10/24) and spent six weeks<br />
there before being signed to the 53-man active<br />
roster for the final four weeks of the season…<br />
suited up but did not play vs. Tampa Bay (12/9),<br />
Denver (12/13), at Indianapolis (12/23) and vs.<br />
Jacksonville (12/30).<br />
2006 (Arizona 0/0): Signed by the Pittsburgh<br />
Steelers (2/17) and allocated to the Cologne<br />
Centurions of NFL Europe…completed 100 of<br />
185 passes for 1,139 yards and five touchdowns<br />
for Cologne…set the single-game rushing<br />
record for a quarterback in NFL Europe, rushing<br />
for 98 yards on eight carries vs. Berlin…signed<br />
to the Cardinals practice squad two days later<br />
(9/4) and spent the first 15 games of the season<br />
there…promoted to the 53-man roster (12/26)<br />
and was inactive as the third quarterback in the<br />
season finale at San Diego (12/31).<br />
2005 Signed as an undrafted rookie free agent<br />
by the Tennessee Titans (4/29)…released by the<br />
Titans (8/29) and spent the rest of the year out<br />
of football.<br />
COLLEGE: Played in 36 games while starting 16<br />
for Kentucky…also played receiver and running<br />
back during his Wildcat career…finished<br />
his career with 2,484 passing yards and 13<br />
touchdowns…gained 845 rushing yards on 191<br />
carries (4.2 avg) and 13 touchdowns…completed<br />
138 passes for 1,328 yards in 2004 while rushing<br />
for 297 yards and five touchdowns…became<br />
the first player in Wildcat history to record a<br />
touchdown by rushing, passing and receiving in<br />
2003…named to SEC Academic Honor Roll and<br />
was the second SEC player drafted in the 12th<br />
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