The Jaguars, originally supposed to draft eighth, moved up and took Leftwich with the seventh overall pick.

After the kickoff, Leftwich led his team to the Patriots 32-yard line, but on the first play of the fourth quarter, defensive back Asante Samuel intercepted Leftwich's pass and took off for a 73-yard touchdown return, making the score 28-3.

The move was similar to the one that named Garrard himself the starter over Byron Leftwich in 2007.

Bloomington has been home to a large number of musicians and " scholars " over the years, including Strawberry McCloud, Lotus Dickey, Miles Krassen, Anthony Seeger, Bob Lucas, Caroline Peyton, Mark Bingham, Willy Schwartz, Jessica Radcliffe, Hawk Hubbard, Linda Higginbotham, Brad Leftwich, Ruthie Allen, Grey Larsen, Cindy Kallet, Bruce Anderson, Pete Sutherland, Malcolm Daglish, Sam Bartlett, Jamie Gans, Ken Perlman, and numerous backporch pickers who support the active contra dance, Irish, and bluegrass music scenes.

* Tom Condon graduated from UB Law in 1981, sports agent, represents over 120 NFL players, including Peyton Manning, Matt Ryan, Tony Romo, Matt Leinart, Tim Couch, Marvin Harrison, LaDainian Tomlinson, Tony Gonzalez, Steve Hutchinson, Eli Manning, Drew Brees, Chad Pennington, Alex Smith, Marc Bulger, Chris Simms, Byron Leftwich, Mathias Kiwanuka, Brady Quinn, Jake Long, and Adrian Peterson.

In 1959, Carroll All-Mets Thompson, Monk Malloy, George Leftwich and Tom Hoover won over Cardozo 79 – 52.

The next year, Thompson and Leftwich led the Lions over the Ollie Johnson / Dave Bing led Spingarn, 69 – 54.

Leftwich gained recognition after quarterbacking a 64 – 61 overtime victory over East Carolina in the 2001 GMAC Bowl, in which he competed against future teammate David Garrard.

In February 2007, Del Rio publicly reaffirmed his commitment to Leftwich, formally naming him as the team's starter over Garrard and Gray.

However, on September 19, Steelers quarterback Dennis Dixon was injured in a win over the Tennessee Titans and Leftwich was re-signed on the morning of September 20.

With Roethlisberger being suspended four games by the NFL to start the 2010 season, and with both Dennis Dixon and Byron Leftwich out with injured knees, Batch led the Steelers to a 38-13 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in week three.

2002 marked the last full season for Jaguars legend Mark Brunell, who was benched in the third game of 2003 in favor of Byron Leftwich.

The Jaguars selected quarterback Byron Leftwich with the seventh pick of the NFL draft.

On August 31, 2007, the Jaguars announced that long time back-up quarterback David Garrard would start for the team, ahead of former first round draft pick, Byron Leftwich who was released in the team's final roster cuts.

For the first 11 games of the 2005 regular season, Leftwich was developing into the quarterback the Jaguars believed he would become when they picked him in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft.

Leftwich entered his fourth NFL season as the Jaguars ' starting quarterback, but without veteran wide receiver Jimmy Smith, who suddenly retired in May 2006.

Leftwich led the Jaguars to victories on national television in consecutive weeks against the favored Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers to begin the 2006 season.

Garrard's and the team's success in Leftwich's absence led to speculation that the Jaguars might seek to replace Leftwich permanently with Garrard.

The Jaguars cut Leftwich on September 1, 2007.

On September 18, 2007, Redman was moved to No. 3 on the depth chart after the Falcons signed former Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Byron Leftwich.

The team signed former Jacksonville Jaguars starter Byron Leftwich.

Harrington performed well in the preseason, but after going 0-2, Atlanta signed former Jacksonville starting quarterback Byron Leftwich as a possible replacement for Harrington.

Harrington regained his starting position and Leftwich did not play again.

Josh Johnson was named the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ' new starting QB, while Leftwich moved down to 3rd string behind Josh Freeman.

During the 2007 season, with Falcons starting quarterback Byron Leftwich out with a high ankle sprain, Dunn served as the third string emergency quarterback behind Joey Harrington and Chris Redman, a position he played in high school.

Filling in at the starting position for the injured Deshea Townsend, McFadden intercepted a Byron Leftwich pass in the Steelers ' end zone.

Thundering Herd quarterback Byron Leftwich threw for 576 yards in the game.

In 2007 Jacksonville cut quarterback Byron Leftwich in favor of David Garrard.

Byron Antron Leftwich ( born January 14, 1980 ) is an American football quarterback in the National Football League with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Leftwich started the 2008 season as the back-up quarterback to Ben Roethlisberger.

Brunell was benched in favor of Byron Leftwich following halftime of the third game of the 2003 season.

However in the regular season against the Arizona Cardinals, Leftwich suffered a broken ankle after being sacked by Cardinals ' safety Adrian Wilson on the first play of the game.

After observing Leftwich's and Garrard's performances throughout the 2007 preseason, in the week preceding the first regular season game of 2007 Del Rio named Garrard the team's starter and declared that Leftwich would be either cut or traded.

After replacing Harrington late in Week 5, Leftwich got the start in Week 7 and played very well, before having to leave the game with an ankle sprain.

On August 10, 2008, Leftwich was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers to a one-year deal after Pittsburgh's backup Charlie Batch was injured in a pre-season game.

Leftwich made one appearance during the regular season finale, in relief of Roethlisberger, once the game was out of reach for opponents Cleveland.

Several English places carry the suffix and are historically related to salt, including the four Cheshire ' wiches ' of Middlewich, Nantwich, Northwich and Leftwich ( a small village south of Northwich ), and Droitwich in Worcestershire.

Byron Leftwich enjoyed a solid year in 2004, helped by strong performances from holdovers Fred Taylor and Jimmy Smith.

On September 18, Leftwich signed a two year deal with the Falcons with incentives attached that could make the deal worth up to $ 7 million.

If the team had been favoring Garrard after the first seven games of the season, his unfavorable performance in the final three games almost certainly led to reaffirmation of Leftwich.

On September 28, Buccaneers benched Leftwich after a disappointing loss to the New York Giants and an 0-3 start to the season.

During Week 3 of the 2011 Pre-season against Atlanta, Leftwich broke his left arm after landing awkwardly while running with the ball.