NFF National Scholar-Athletes
Danny Wuerffel owns one of the most impressive résumés in all of college football history, leading the University of Florida to four SEC championships and the 1996 national title while becoming the first person in history to win both the Heisman Trophy and Campbell Trophy®.
Graduating with an impressive 3.74 GPA, including four semesters with a perfect 4.0, Wuerffel twice earned CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year honors while winning an NCAA Today Top Eight Award and an NCAA postgraduate scholarship.
The 1996 team captain finished his Gator career completing 1,170 passes for 10,875 yards, with 114 TD passes, best in SEC history and second-most in major college history. His career pass efficiency rating (163.56) was the best in major college history and his percentage of passes for a touchdown (9.74) ranked first in NCAA history.
A First-Team All-America selection in 1995 and 1996, he won the Davey O’Brien Award twice, the SEC Player of the Year Award twice, and the Maxwell and Walter Camp player of the year awards in 1996.
Drafted by the New Orleans Saints in 1997, the Pensacola, Fla., native played for the Saints, Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins before retiring after the 2002 season.
The namesake of the Wuerffel Trophy for community service, his 2013 induction into the College Football Hall of Fame made him the first Campbell Trophy® recipient to ever achieve the dual honors.
Wuerffel currently heads the Desire Street Ministries in Decatur, Ga., training leaders to transform impoverished neighborhoods through spiritual and community development.
