Johnathan Paul Manziel is a former American football quarterback. He played two seasons with the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He was also a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League in 2018 and of the Memphis Express of the Alliance of American Football in 2019. Manziel was recruited out of high school as a dual-threat quarterback.
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Johnathan Paul Manziel is a former American football quarterback. He played two seasons with the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He was also a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian Football League in 2018 and of the Memphis Express of the Alliance of American Football in 2019. Manziel was recruited out of high school as a dual-threat quarterback, and he debuted for the Texas A&M Aggies as a redshirt freshman in 2012. He broke numerous NCAA Division I FBS and SEC records, which included becoming the first freshman and fifth player in NCAA history to pass for 3,000 yards and rush for 1,000 Yards in a season. He has a younger sister named Meri. Manziel’s paternal great-great-grandfather Joseph immigrated to the United States, in 1907, from Lebanon and settled in Louisiana. He is of Italian descent on his maternal side. He won the Heisman Trophy, Manning Award, and the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award in 2012 as a freshman. He also won the National High School Coaches Association Senior Athlete of the Year in Texas in 2010. Manziel applied for and was granted a registered trademark for the nickname “Johnny Football” in 2013. The nickname followed him to Texas A &M University, where he played for the Aggies from 2012 to 2014. Manziel played football for four years, beginning with the freshman team in his first year. At Tivy High School in Kerrville, Texas, he focused on baseball and football.
During his senior season, he compiled 228-of-347 passing for3,609 yards with 45 touchdowns and five interceptions. His junior year was his first as starting quarterback and he completed that season with 2,903 passing yards, 1,544 rushing yards, 152 receiving yards and 55 touchdowns. He had one touchdown reception and returned a kickoff for a touchdown for a combined 77 touchdowns. In 2013, he was honored as District 28-4A MVP, Class 4A First Team All-State, San Antonio Express-News Offensive Player of the year and the Associated Press Sports Editors Texas Player Of The Year. In 2014, he became the only quarterback in America named as a Parade Parade Parade All-American. In 2015, he won the Mr. Texas Football award for his high school football performance. In 2016, Manziel was not signed by another team before the start of the season and spent two years away from football until he returned with the Tiger-cats in 2018. In 2017, he signed with the Express during the AAF’s inaugural season, but was released the following year and rendered ineligible to play in the CFL after it was determined he violated the terms of his contract. The Express was cut short when the AAAF suspended operations two weeks later. In 2018, he played in the NFL’s preseason game against the New England Patriots and was traded to the Toronto Argonauts. In 2011, Manziel won the U.S. Army All-Star Game.
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