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Patrick Allen Ramsey (born February 14, 1979) is an American athlete, currently playing quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League.

Born in Ruston, Louisiana, Ramsey was a two-year starter at quarterback for his Ruston High School football team . As a senior, he was the nation's top ranked high school javelin thrower and won a bronze medal at the 1997 Junior Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. Ramsey is an avid outdoorsman, spending most of his off season "in the woods."

College Football career

Ramsey attended Tulane University, and had an outstanding collegiate career as a "scholar athlete", being named five times to the Conference USA Commissioner's honor roll, and was the National Football Foundation/College Football Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete of the Year, in 2001.

During Ramsey's 1999 season, he set 20 Tulane passing records, including single season records for passing yards, attempts, and completions. In that season he scored 25 touchdowns, the second-most ever for a Tulane player. In 2000, he led the third-best passing offense in the country. He also made the All-Conference USA second-team, leading the conference in most meaningful passing statistics. In his senior season in 2001 he started 11 games and scored 22 touchdowns. He set a school record, having at least one touchdown pass in 31 consecutive games. Upon graduating, he had the top five passing games in school history. His career totals at Tulane were surpassed only (in various individual statistics, none overall) by Shaun King, Mike McKay, Roch Hontas, and Terrence Jones.

Ramsey graduated with degrees in Accounting and Finance.

NFL career

Patrick Ramsey was drafted 32nd overall in the 2002 draft, to replace Brad Johnson as quarterback. However, there were early difficulties with Steve Spurrier's offense, and Ramsey often split games with other quarterbacks. The 2003 season, Ramsey's first full season as a starter was even more difficult. He was one of the most sacked quarterbacks in the NFL that year, which was also Spurrier's last season as head coach. In 2004, Joe Gibbs returned to coach the team after a prolonged absence; he originally signed Mark Brunell as the starting quarterback, but replaced him with Ramsey in November. A month later, Gibbs named Ramsey as the starting quarterback for the 2005 season.

In the Redskins first game against the Chicago Bears, Ramsey suffered a minor neck injury after a clothesline hit by Chicago Bears linebacker Lance Briggs. Gibbs demoted him to the role of Brunell's back-up for the second game versus the Dallas Cowboys. It was reported that Ramsey requested a trade from the Redskins, following announcement of his demotion. This report was later claimed to be false by Ramsey and the Redskins organization.

In March of 2006, Ramsey was traded to the New York Jets for a 6th round pick in the 2006 NFL Draft.

For his career, Ramsey has played in 24-of-33 possible games, starting 19 of them, and completed 480-of-861 passes for 5,435 yards, 34 touchdowns and 29 interceptions. His career quarterback rating is currently 75.0.

Ramsey holds the not so dubious honor of having the "best" career so far of any of the quarterbacks taken in the 2002 NFL Draft. In game in which he has been given the start, he has posted a near .500 record (8-11). In comparison to fellow 2002 first round quarterbacks David Carr (1st Overall, 18-42 record) and Joey Harrington ( 3rd Overall, 18-38) he has performed well despite a lack of consistent starting experience, a lack of pass protection, a near non-existent running game up until 2004 and mediocre receiver sets consisting of Laverneous Coles and Rod Gardner. He has also never been giving a full vote of confidence from any of his head coaches and has had to compete against mediocre journeyman Shane Matthews in 2002 and at the time a beaten up and ineffective Mark Brunell in 2004. His 75.0 passer rating and 34-29 touchdown-interception ratio are also tops among the three quarter backs.

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