Joe Cox (American football)

Joe Cox

Georgia Bulldogs – No. 14
Position	Quarterback
Class	Senior
Major	Psychology
Personal information
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	198 lb (90 kg)
Career history
College	Georgia (2005–present)
Bowl games	2009 Capital One Bowl - UGA 24, MSU 12 2008 Sugar Bowl - UGA 41, UH 10 2006 Chick-fil-A Bowl - UGA 31, VT 24 2006 Sugar Bowl - WVU 38, UGA 35
High school	Independence High School, Charlotte, North Carolina
Career highlights and awards
Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week honors (9/20/09) SEC Offensive Player of the Week honors (9/21/09) Collegefootballperformance.com's Quarterback Performance of the Week honors(9/20/09) Coffee County Hustle Award (2009) SEC Academic Honor Roll and Director’s Honor Roll (Fall 2008) Sporting News College Football Player of the Week (2006) SEC Freshman of the Week (2006 win over Colorado) Outstanding Offensive Scout Team Player Award (2005)
Stats at ESPN

Joe Cox (born November 27, 1986) is an American football quarterback, currently starting for the University of Georgia Bulldogs.

Early Life

Cox started at Independence High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. He received several honors in high school for his great play. Cox was named to the 2004 Parade Magazine All-America Team and Super Prep All-Mid Atlantic Team. He was the North Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year. Cox was on the AP First-Team All-State and was two-time Charlotte Observer Offensive Player of the Year. He also played in the Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas and impressed scouts by going 31-0 as a starting quarterback. Cox was a two-time team captain and was the number 7 rated quarterback in the country by Rivals.com and Tom Lemming of ESPN. He set a North Carolina record with 66 touchdown passes while taking his team to its fifth consecutive state championship his senior year. Cox was named the MVP of the state title game two times. As a junior, Cox threw for nearly 4,000 yards and over 40 touchdowns. As a senior, he completed 240 out of 363 passes for over 4,500 yards and only five interceptions. Cox is a complete quarterback with all the tools to be successful. He has pinpoint accuracy and a deceivingly strong arm. The quarterback also moves well in the pocket and can scramble outside when needed.

College career

Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior years (2005-2008)

Joe Cox was redshirted his freshman year in 2005. Through the first four years of his career at UGA, Cox had scattered playing time and completed 33 out of 58 pass attempts for 432 yards with five touchdowns and one interception. As a redshirt freshman in 2006, with Georgia trailing Colorado 0-13 at home late in the third quarter, Cox was put in the game to relieve ineffective starter Matthew Stafford. Cox threw for 153 yards and two touchdowns late in the game to lead Georgia to a comeback win, 14-13. Cox would start one more game in the season, in a 14-9 victory over Ole Miss, but eventually lost his starting job to the highly-touted Stafford, who ended up being the first overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft.

Fifth-year Senior (2009)

Cox, who is currently a fifth year senior, has had an up and down season. While Cox had thrown for over 1,200 yards and 11 touchdowns and boasted a 146.4 quarterback rating in his first four games of the season, the next games he did not perform as well. Georgia currently stands at 6-5 on the season with Cox as the starter. In Georgia's 52-41 win over Arkansas in Fayetteville, Cox threw for a career high 375 yards and matched a school record with five touchdown passes. Against #1-ranked Florida, Cox completed 11-of-20 pass attempts for two touchdowns, which was as many as the Gators had allowed all season, but also threw three interceptions in the 17-41 loss. In his final game at Sanford Stadium, the Bulldogs had a 14-point half-time lead. However, Cox threw two interceptions in the fourth quarter. Along with a red-zone fumble (as Georgia was attempting to tie the game), these interceptions sealed a loss against Kentucky, Georgia's first home loss to the Wildcats since 1977.