William Casey Weldon (born February 3, 1969) is a former professional
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...
player. Weldon is best known for being the
quarterback
The quarterback (commonly abbreviated "QB"), colloquially known as the "signal caller", is a position in gridiron football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive platoon and mostly line up directly behind the offensive line. In modern Ame ...
for
Florida State in the late-1980s and early-1990s. During his senior season in 1991, Weldon finished runner-up in the
Heisman Trophy balloting to
Desmond Howard of Michigan. He also played in the
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ma ...
,
World League and for the Birmingham Thunderbolts of the
XFL.
High school coaching career
Weldon played high school quarterback at
North Florida Christian High School, and he returned there as the varsity head football coach in 2006. On December 12, 2007, and after getting NFC to the Florida division 1A state championship game twice in his two years as head coach, but losing both times, NFC fired him and rehired former NFC head coach Tim Cokely. Weldon finished his two-year NFC career with an overall record of 23–5. In May 2008 he was hired as the new offensive coordinator at
Leon High School.
External links
BUCPOWER bio
1969 births
Living people
Florida State University alumni
American football quarterbacks
Florida State Seminoles football players
Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
Washington Redskins players
Barcelona Dragons players
Birmingham Thunderbolts players
Philadelphia Eagles players
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