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Brad Johnson

His full name is James Bradley Johnson and was born in September 13, 1968 in Marietta, Georgia. Brad plays for the Minnesota Vikings in the quarterback position.

Brad went to the Charles D. Owen High School located in Black Mountain North Carolina where he played football and was a high school All-American in football and basketball.

He is recognized for leading the Tampa Bay Buccaneers team to their first Super Bowl and to win over the Oakland Raiders 48-21 during the Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003 placing 2 touchdowns and over 200 yards. Brad has also one of the top 20 career passer ratings in the NFL history.

Into his records he has a 65-43 career record as a starter, the third best win-loss ratio among active QB’s with over 50 starting games; he has connected on over 60% of his passes for last straight seasons being the first QB to do this.

Brad has been selected twice to Pro Bowl, 1999-2000, and was named to USA Today’s All Joe team in 2003 as recognition for the NFL’s most unsung players.

The football player has the 3,000-yard passing mark five times, and in 1999 became the second player for the Washington Redskin history to mark the 4,000 yards. Brad is also the owner of the top passer rating in the NFC in 2002 and he earned NFC Offensive Player of the Week honors 7 times in his career. He is the only NFL quarterback to have thrown a touchdown pass to himself.

Brad has played not only for the Minnesota Vikings also for the Washington Redskins and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as it was mentioned before.

But he started to play for the Vikings in 1992 when he was drafted in the 9 round. He started as the backup playing few games until the QB Warren Moon was injured in 1996, giving Brad the chance to start 8 of 12 games earning NFC Offensive Player of the Week twice and finishing third in the NFC with an 89.4 passer rating.

After a neck injury that Brad suffered in 1997, in 1998 he started the first two games for the Vikings where he passed for an incredible 747 yards, with a 65% completion rate, 11 yards per completion, for 7 touchdowns, but in the second game he was injured again forcing him to be out of action.

Due to the injury the backup Randall Cunningham had to replace Johnson developing such a professional performance fact that made the coach left him as the starter and send Johnson to the Washington Redskins where he had his best season making the Pro Bowl for the first time in his career with a 90.0 passer rating with 4,005 yards, 24 TDs and 13 INTs. Washington got a team record due to his 316 completions and his 4,005 passing yards ranks made Redskins to be second on its history.

In 2001 he signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers where he broke records for the teams for passing yards with 3,406 completions with 340 and 540 attempts.

At the end of the 2004 season Johnson got out of the team and due to that he couldn’t find s a starting quarterback job he signed with the Minnesota Vikings to be the backup.

In 2005 the starting quarterback for the Vikings was Daunte Culpepper but he got injured in the seventh game. Johnson took the starter position and the team finished the season with 7-2 with six wins. Brad set a team record for lowest interception to attempt ratio (1.3%) which was the lowest in the NFL.

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