During his rookie season, he played in two games where he amassed a record of 5 passing attempts with 0 receptions and 2 interceptions.

Matt Ryan started all 16 games in his rookie season and was named the Associated Press Offensive Rookie of the Year.

After his lowest point output since his rookie season, Federko decided to retire after the 1989 – 90 season, having played exactly 1, 000 NHL games.

This nickname was commonly used during that season, perhaps because the team had a new manager and several rookie players.

In his first season, Brown was the NFL's leading rusher with 942 yards in a 12-game regular season and was voted rookie of the year in a United Press poll.

By the end of the season, the rookie quarterback had rewritten the record book in Charlotte and many more in the NFL ( including most passing yards by a rookie with 4, 051, previously held by Peyton Manning with 3, 739 ; and most rushing touchdowns by a QB with 14 ).

In their second match up of the 2011 season, Newton set the record for most passing yards in a season for a rookie QB and converted a 91 yard touchdown pass to WR Brandon LaFell to set a Carolina Panther records for longest pass.

The Cardinals defeated the Panthers in the 2011 season opener on September 11 despite rookie QB Cam Newton's 422 yard debut.

joined car owner Rod Osterlund Racing, in a season that included a rookie class of future stars – Earnhardt, Harry Gant and Terry Labonte.

In his rookie season, Earnhardt won one race at Bristol, captured four poles, had 11 Top 5 finishes, 17 Top 10 finishes, and finished 7th in the points standings, in spite of missing four races because of a broken collarbone, winning Rookie of the Year honors.

For the 2010 season, number 88 was issued to rookie Dez Bryant.

Brown's place was taken in Game 5 by rookie pitcher Liván Hernández, who had earned a spot in the rotation in the second half of the season, but was not in the rotation during the postseason.

* Livan Hernandez ( 1996 – 1998 ) — Hernandez's rookie season coincided with the 1997 World Series.

* Anibal Sanchez ( 2006 – 2012 )-Also acquired in the Josh Beckett & Mike Lowell in the 2005 off-season, Sanchez threw a no-hitter in his rookie season and threw three one-hitters during his tenure.

One of the main priorities of the new leadership was to improve the team's struggling receiving corps and see improvement from quarterback Blaine Gabbert after a disappointing rookie season.

After playing his rookie season at first base, Robinson spent most of his career as a second baseman.

In 1992, reminiscent of the resurgence which greeted Trebelhorn's arrival in 1987, the Brewers rallied behind the leadership of rookie manager Phil Garner and posted their best record since their World Series year in 1982, finishing the season 92 – 70 and in second place, four games behind that year's eventual World Champion Toronto Blue Jays.

The 1977 season featured a roster that included three rookie quarterbacks.

It did not take long for Smith to earn recognition in the major leagues, making what some consider his greatest fielding play only ten games into his rookie season.

With Clemente fast becoming a fan favorite, there would seem little not to like about the early progress of his highly touted rookie season, but the transition from Puerto Rico to Pittsburgh was, in fact, anything but smooth.

After his fast start, Clemente finished his rookie season with an average of. 255, owing at least in part to the recurrence, or perhaps persistence, of the counterproductive batting tics noticed three years before by Dodger scout Al Campanis-and, more to the point, the fact that National League pitchers were noticing as well.

He made 97 plate appearances, but drew ten walks and had one sacrifice fly, which gave him 86 official at bats, and allowed him to go into the season still technically a rookie.

Manager Gene Mauch was criticized for his handling of the pitching staff over the final two weeks, but players such as slugging rookie third baseman Richie Allen also drew harsh treatment.

During his rookie season in the NHL, Lyashenko played center on the Stars second line, earning praise from coach Ken Hitchcock, " His game has risen beyond his years.

Nineteen-year-old rookie first baseman Fred Merkle, later to become one of the best players at his position in the league, was on first base, with teammate Moose McCormick on third with two out and the game tied.

Marcedes Lewis went to his first pro bowl and the Jags had one of the best young defensive tackle duo with Terrance Knighton and rookie Tyson Alualu.

But one of the most distinguishable players on defense was a large rookie lineman named William " Refrigerator " Perry.

While it was generally thought his arrival would make the Spurs respectable again, no one expected what happened in his rookie season.

Robinson had one of the most successful rookie seasons for a center in NBA history, finishing the season as the unanimous Rookie of the Year while averaging 24. 3 points and 12. 0 rebounds.

Several trades were made by the team, one that sent rookie Eric Maynor and the contract of the retired Matt Harpring to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

During his rookie season, Perry rushed for 2 touchdowns and caught a pass for one.

In his rookie season of 1962, Brock became one of four players to hit a home run into the center-field bleachers at the old Polo Grounds in New York since its 1923 reconstruction.

The Red Wings were prepared to send Yzerman back to Peterborough for one more year, but " after one ( training camp ) season, you knew he was a tremendous hockey player ," said Ken Holland, the current Red Wings general manager who was a minor league goaltender for the Wings during Yzerman's rookie training camp.

Hawke played rookie cop Jake Hoyt, alongside Denzel Washington, as one of a pair of narcotics detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department spending 24 hours in the gang neighborhoods of South Los Angeles.

Montoya is one of two drivers to have won the CART title in his rookie year, the first being Formula One World Champion Nigel Mansell in 1993.

" In his rookie season, Duncan lived up to expectations of being the number one draft pick, starting in all 82 regular-season games, and averaging 21. 1 points, 11. 9 rebounds, 2. 7 assists and 2. 5 blocks per game.

He went on to score an all-time rookie record of 76 goals in his rookie season ( shattering the previous record of 53 set by Mike Bossy ), which made him the second European to lead the league in goal scoring ( after Jari Kurri ), along with Alexander Mogilny, and also makes him one of only eight players, and to date, the last player ( along with Mogilny ) to have scored 70 or more goals in one NHL season.

This is one of the most popular sets of all time, due in large part to the fact that it contained Mickey Mantle's rookie card.

Along with setting the rookie shot blocking record in 1985-86, over the course of his career Bol tied for the NBA record for the most blocked shots in one half ( eleven ) and in one quarter ( eight, twice ).

In his rookie season, he won his first pole at Richmond International Raceway, collected one top-five and two top-tens, and finished 19th in points.

Jack Elliot is an aging American baseball player put on the trading block by the New York Yankees in favor of a rookie first-baseman ( played by former Chicago White Sox player Frank Thomas ), and there's only one taker: the Nagoya Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball.

While they hesitated in giving Yashin a five year, $ 4 million contract, they signed Daigle to one of the largest rookie contracts in history, and touted him over Yashin for the Calder Trophy at the conclusion of the 1993 – 94 season .< ref name =" sicnn ">

Hillenbrand played 139 games for the Sox in his rookie season, mostly at third base, but a. 263 batting average failed to hide his failure to hit with power and get on base adequately ( he had one of the lowest walks-to-plate appearances rates in the MLB ).