Name: Joe Flacco
Height: 6’6″ 3/8
Weight: 236
40 Time: 4.92
Position: QB
College: Delaware
Birthdate: January 16, 1985
Hometown: Audobon, NJ
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Combine
- Regarded as best thrower at Combine
- 6.82 3 cone (best among QBs)
- 28.5 vert jump
- 4.78 40 time
NFL Draft Scouting Report
Transferred from Pitt after limited playing time in 2004 behind starter Tyler Palko, Flacco transferred to the University of Delaware. Flacco was unable to get out of his scholarship at Pitt, so was ineligible for action in the 2005 season with UD.
Great size … Big arm … Ranked 5th best Senior QB by ESPN … Good accuracy running to his right … Doesn’t run much, but flashes ability … Has poise and pocket presence … Deals with pressure situations well … Will sometimes throw the ball off his back foot under pressure and float it … … CAA offensive player of the year in 2007 … Potential day one pick .. played out of the spread formation so is not used to taking ball from center. Is raw, but has great potential.
College career
Senior Year
2007 was Flacco’s most successful season. Flacco led his team to an 8-3 regular season record while compiling over 3,300 yards, 18 touchdowns and only 5 interceptions. Arguably his best game came against Division 1-A Navy where he threw for 434 yards and four touchdowns. Flacco showed another solid performance in the first ever meeting against Delaware State University in the first round of the playoffs. Behind Cuff’s record-setting day, Flacco threw efficiently for 189 yards and a touchdown. Many sports pundits have Flacco as a late first day, or early second day pick in the 2008 NFL Draft. ESPN’s Jeff Pearlman went so far as to call Flacco a “second- or third-round selection”.[1] Flacco continued UD’s playoff run by upsetting the Northern Iowa Panthers 39-27 in the FCS quarterfinals and upsetting the Southern Illinois Salukis the next weekend in the semifinals. Flacco threw for over 200 yards and 2 touchdowns against both the Panthers and Salukis.
v Northern Iowa: Led upset win over number one seed, with crucial TD on a QB sneak // v Southern Illinois: Got going with good quick passing at the end of the first after a slow start and hit 9 of 10 at one stage in the second quarter … Great playaction fake for 8 yard TD pass to TE in flat … Scrambled for 22 yards, almost losing fumble, but was ruled down … Deep throw down seam to TE in stride for 44 yards … Lofted pass off back foot to wide open TE in endzone was floated, allowing DB to get over and knock it incomplete … Stepped up and threw to WR in endzone for 9 yard TD … Underthrew deep ball badly off back foot, but got lucky with pass interference call … Led drive for winning FG in fourth … Finished with 243 yards and 2 TDs passing // v Appalachian State: Performed well, despite heavy pressure, but was unable to generate enough offense to keep up with App. State … Flushed out and threw incomplete on 4th down at the one … Good pass to the corner of the endzone for 24 yard TD, but penalty overturned it … Threw 39 yard TD pass to the endzone at the sideline … Great job to avoid sack and throw the ball away … Deep throw down the sideline for 42
Junior Year
Flacco saw his first full time action during the 2006 season. Flacco put up good numbers with nearly 3,000 yards, and 18 touchdowns as opposed to 10 interceptions. However, due to injury of starting running back Omar Cuff, Delaware struggled to a 5-6 record, missing the playoffs.
Sophmore Year
Sat out season after transferring from the University of Pittsburgh … ineligible to play after not obtaining release from scholarship … eligible for the 2006 (Junior) season at Delaware.
Freshman Year
Served as the chief backup to starter Tyler Palko…played in three games…saw brief action vs. Ohio and Nebraska but did not throw a pass…played fourth quarter against South Florida, completing 1 of 4 passes for 11 yards…team went 8-4 and lost to Utah in Fiesta Bowl under head coach Walt Harris…
RS Freshman Year @ Pitt
Redshirted as true freshman and retained freshman eligibility….team went 8-5 and lost to Virginia in Continental Tire Bowl.
High school career
wo-time New Jersey All-Group II at Audobon High…two-time All-South Jersey…two time first team All-Colonial Conference…Audobon’s Colonial Conference Athlete of the Year…South Jersey Touchdown Club Offensive Back of the Year…South Jersey Touchdown Club first team All-Academic…Courier Post Scholar Athlete of the Year…Brooks-Irvine Offensive Scholar-Athlete of the year…three-year starter at quarterback for Audubon…threw for 5,137 career yards, including 2,020 as a senior…career passing yardage total ranked fourth in South Jersey history…set a single-game South Jersey record with 471 passing yards…SuperPrep All-Northeast Team…rated the No. 33 prospect in New Jersey by SuperPrep…rated one of the nation’s top 40 “pro-style” quarterbacks by rivals100.com…PrepStar All-East Region…earned three letters in football and baseball, and two in basketball…distinguished honor roll…Principal’s Honor Roll.
Background
Joseph Vincent Flacco…born January 16, 1985…son of Stephen and Karen Flacco…has four brothers and one sister.