Ty Thompson (born February 2, 2003)[1] is an American football quarterback for the Tulane Green Wave.
| Tulane Green Wave – No. 7 | |
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| Position | Quarterback |
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| Personal information | |
| Born: | February 2, 2003[1] |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 220 lb (100 kg) |
| Career history | |
| College | |
| High school | Mesquite (Gilbert, Arizona) |
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High school career
editThompson attended Mesquite High School in Gilbert, Arizona.[2] As a senior in 2020, he passed for 3,431 yards and 34 touchdowns. He won numerous awards that season, including the All-American Bowl Offensive Player of the Year, Maxwell Football Club Offensive Player of the Year, Ed Doherty Award and was the Arizona Gatorade Football Player of the Year.[3][4][5] For his high school career, Thompson passed for 9,891 yards with 100 touchdowns and rushed for 1,145 yards with 20 touchdowns. A five-star recruit by Rivals.com, Thompson committed to the University of Oregon to play college football.[6][7] He was the highest rated quarterback recruit to sign with Oregon.[8]
College career
editOregon
editThompson competed with Anthony Brown for the starting job his true freshman year at Oregon in 2021.[9] Brown won the job, with Thompson appearing in three games as a backup and taking a redshirt. For the season, he completed seven of 15 passes for 87 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. In 2022 he competed with Bo Nix to be starter, with Nix winning the competition.[10][11] He appeared in seven games as a backup, completing 11 of 20 passes for 72 yards with two interceptions. Thompson returned to Oregon as Nix' backup in 2023. He entered the transfer portal on December 11, 2023.[12]
Tulane
editOn January 5, 2024, Thompson committed to play for Tulane.[13]
Statistics
edit| Season | Games | Passing | Rushing | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | GS | Record | Comp | Att | Pct | Yards | Avg | TD | Int | Rate | Att | Yards | Avg | TD | ||
| Oregon Ducks | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 0−0 | 7 | 15 | 46.7 | 87 | 5.8 | 2 | 1 | 126.1 | 3 | 10 | 3.3 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 7 | 0 | 0−0 | 11 | 20 | 55.0 | 72 | 3.6 | 0 | 2 | 65.2 | 4 | -2 | -0.5 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 7 | 0 | 0−0 | 24 | 31 | 77.4 | 297 | 9.6 | 4 | 1 | 194.0 | 8 | 48 | 6.0 | 0 | |
| Tulane Green Wave | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0−0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | |
| Career[14] | 17 | 0 | 0−0 | 42 | 66 | 63.6 | 456 | 6.9 | 6 | 4 | 139.6 | 15 | 56 | 3.7 | 0 | |
References
edit- ^ a b "Ty Thompson Quarterback Oregon". nfldraftbuzz.com. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
- ^ "Mesquite's Ty Thompson taking strides during pandemic". East Valley Tribune. September 2020.
- ^ "Ty Thompson, Oregon Ducks 5-star QB signee, named All-American Bowl offensive player of the year". The Oregonian. January 2021.
- ^ "Mesquite's Ty Thompson named 2020 Ed Doherty Award winner". East Valley Tribune. January 9, 2021.
- ^ "Mesquite QB Ty Thompson, now at Oregon, 2020 Gatorade Arizona Football Player of the Year". The Arizona Republic.
- ^ "'Calm, cool and collected': Mesquite QB Ty Thompson ready to start Oregon Ducks journey". The Arizona Republic.
- ^ "Ty Thompson named Oregon Ducks' first-ever 5-star quarterback commit by Rivals". The Oregonian. August 24, 2020.
- ^ "'A younger version of Aaron Rodgers': Opposing coaches on Oregon's top QB commit". The Athletic.
- ^ "Oregon names Anthony Brown starting QB over freshman Ty Thompson for opener vs. Fresno State". CBS Sports. August 27, 2021.
- ^ "Oregon quarterback battle heats up between Bo Nix and Ty Thompson". The Register Guard.
- ^ "Ty Thompson in perpetual competition since arriving at Oregon; will 2022 be his time to start for the Ducks?". The Oregonian. August 23, 2022.
- ^ "2024 College football Transfer Portal".
- ^ "Tulane lands QB transfer Thompson from Oregon". ESPN.com. January 5, 2024. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
- ^ "Ty Thompson College Stats". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved July 28, 2024.