Brock Osweiler is an NFL quarterback currently playing for the Miami Dolphins. He began his NFL career in 2012 with the Denver Broncos, who selected him in the second round of the 2012 NFL draft. Brock would become part of the Denver roster that won Super Bowl 50. After Super Bowl 50, he signed a 4-year contract with the Houston Texans, who would trade him to the Cleveland Browns for a season. He was released before the 2017 season began and was re-signed by the Denver Broncos. Here are other facts you should know about the QB.
Biography of Brock Osweiler
His full name is Brock Alan Osweiler, who was born on November 22, 1990 to Kathy and John Osweiler in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He grew up in Kalispell, Montana.
Brock is not an only child, he has an older brother, Tanner, who also played college football at Montana Tech, Butte. Osweiler attended Flathead High School. He played both basketball and football growing up, for which he began traveling to other states to play with the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball teams. After his freshman year of high school, Osweiler committed to playing basketball for Gonzaga University, but later changed his mind and focused on college football instead.
As a senior, he won the Gatorade Player of the Year Award after recording one hundred and eighty-nine passes for 2,703 yards on 303 passes with twenty-nine touchdowns. He also recorded 162 carries for 700 yards with thirteen touchdowns.
After graduating from high school, he received scholarship offers from Washington State and Stanford, but chose Arizona State University, where he played college football. In his freshman year in Arizona, he played a total of six games, one of which started. In doing so, he became the first true freshman to start a game for the team since 1993 (Jake Plummer was the first). He finished his first season with 24 passes for 249 yards with 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions.
In his sophomore year, he also played 6 games, starting a shot with sixty-two of one hundred and nine passes for 797 yards, 5 touchdowns without stops. He took over as Red Devil’s QB as a junior in 2011, following Steven Threet’s retirement. He finished the season with 4,036 yards and 26 touchdowns. NFLDraftScout.com ranked Brock Osweiler as the sixth-best QB in the 2012 NFL draft.Professional background / statistics
During the 2012 NFL draft, the Denver Broncos picked Brock Osweiler in the second round as the 57th overall pick, after which he signed a 4-year contract with the franchise. His first NFL game came in a game against the Oakland Raiders that ended in a 36-6 win. He recorded his first pass in Week 17, completing two of four passes for 12 yards in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Brock was the reserve quarterback for the Broncos, winning Super Bowl 50. He finished his 2015 season with one hundred and seventy completions from two hundred and seventy-five attempts for 1,967 yards with six interceptions and ten touchdowns. On twenty-one attempts, he fell sixty-one yards.
2015 was the end of his business with the Broncos. In March 2016, he signed a four-year deal with the Houston Texans worth $72 million with $37 million in guaranteed money. His first game with the team was against the Chicago Bears and he came with two touchdowns and one interception for 231 yards.
He was traded to Cleveland in March 2017, but Browns was released in September after the Browns named DeShone Kizer as a new starter. That same month, Brock signed a one-year contract with the Denver Broncos after Paxton Lynch (backup QB) sustained a shoulder injury. After his one-year contract with the Broncos expired, Osweiler signed a new contract with the Miami Dolphins in 2018.
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His salary and wealth
His one-year contract with the Broncos in 2017 was worth $775,000 (NFL minimum). The Browns had to pay the remaining $15.25 million of Osweiler’s $16 million guaranteed. His current net worth is estimated at $40.5 million.
Who is Brock Osweiler’s wife?
The NFL star is happily married to Erin Costales, his longtime girlfriend. After dating for several years, the couple decided to tie the knots in a small but big ceremony attended by some friends and family members.
In 2017, the couple welcomed their first child – a baby named Blake Everly who was born on April 9, 2017.
