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Riley Ferguson
American football player (born 1995) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Riley Logan Ferguson (born January 19, 1995) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football at Memphis.
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Early years
Ferguson attended David W. Butler High School in Matthews, North Carolina.[1] He had 2,173 passing yards and 25 touchdowns as a senior and 3,345 yards and 48 touchdowns as a junior. He committed to the University of Tennessee to play college football.[2]
College career
As a freshman at Tennessee in 2013, Ferguson competed with Justin Worley, Nathan Peterman and Joshua Dobbs for the starting quarterback job.[3][4] He suffered a leg injury during practice and took a medical redshirt.[5] He was again competing for the starting job in 2014, but left the school in May 2014.[6][7]
Ferguson enrolled at Coffeyville Community College in 2015.[8] In his one season at Coffeyville, he passed for 2,942 yards and had 35 touchdowns.[9]
Ferguson transferred to the University of Memphis in 2016.[10] He was named the starter his first year at Memphis.[11][12] In 13 starts, he threw for 3,698 yards and broke Paxton Lynch's previous years record with 32 touchdown passes.[13]
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Professional career
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Ferguson, after finishing his senior year, entered the 2018 NFL draft. Despite having the potential to be a sixth or seventh round pick, he went undrafted. He signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted free agent on April 29, 2018.[15] On May 17, the Buccaneers waived Ferguson.[16]
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