Sherdrick Bonner

Sherdrick Bonner
No. 13
Position:Quarterback
Personal information
Born: (1968-10-19) October 19, 1968 (age 56)
Azusa, California, U.S.
Height:6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight:240 lb (109 kg)
Career information
High school:Azusa (CA)
College:Cal State Northridge
Undrafted:1991
Career history
As a player:
 * Offseason and/or practice squad member only
As a coach:
Career highlights and awards
Career Arena League statistics
Comp.–Att.:3,350–5,432
Passing yards:42,246
TD–INT:855–124
Passer rating:115.72
Stats at ArenaFan.com

Sherdrick Deon "Sed" Bonner (born October 19, 1968) is an American former professional football quarterback who played fifteen seasons in the Arena Football League (AFL).

Early life

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Bonner attended Azusa High School in Azusa, California and was a student and a letterman in football, basketball, baseball and track & field.

College career

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Bonner graduated from Cal State Northridge in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology and was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity.[1] While there, he started at quarterback and led the Matadors to the 1990 Western Football Conference co-championship and the program's only playoff appearance. He completed 319 of 637 passes for 3,533 yards and 18 touchdowns in 37 career games. He earned honorable mention All-Western Football Conference honors his senior year in 1991. Bonner also lettered in basketball, volleyball, and track and field. He played 23 games for the basketball team in the 1987–88 season, outside hitter for the men's volleyball team in the 1991 season, and took first place in the high jump three times. He was inducted into CSUN's Matador Hall of Fame on October 2, 1998.

Professional career

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National Football League

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In 1998, he was on the practice squad for the 1998 NFC Champion Atlanta Falcons. During the 1999 season, he was with the Arizona Cardinals and the San Diego Chargers.[2]

Arena Football League

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On March 25, 2002, Bonner re-signed with the Rattlers.[3]

On Friday, April 7, 2006, he got his 100th career win as his Arizona Rattlers won over the newly formed Utah Blaze 64–52 on the road.

On Saturday, April 28, 2007, in a 67–45 road loss to the New York Dragons, Bonner joined Clint Dolezel and Andy Kelly as the only quarterbacks to throw 800 career touchdown passes.[4]

On Saturday, October 27, 2007, the Rattlers released Bonner after 14 seasons. He signed a two-year contract with the Chicago Rush on October 30, 2007.[5] However, he was released in September 2008, after just one season with the Rush.

Throughout his AFL career, Bonner completed 3,350 passes for 42,246 yards, and 855 touchdowns. He is also the winningest quarterback in league history, with 134 regular season victories and 21 playoff wins (as of April 2, 2007). He is widely considered one of the greatest players in AFL history.

Coaching career

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Bonner began the 2011 AFL season as the offensive coordinator of the Chicago Rush after playing for Chicago in 2008. He called the plays and worked with quarterback Russ Michna. He returned to coaching in the AFL as assistant head coach and offensive coordinator of the second incarnation of the Billings Outlaws, where he was a part of the ArenaBowl XXXIII championship-winning coaching staff under head coach Cedric Walker.

Broadcasting career

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Bonner began his broadcasting career when he was approached by KAZT-TV in Phoenix to be an analyst for Thursday night high school football games.[6] After the Rush folded, he turned his attention to broadcasting serving as both color analyst and sideline reporter for AFL games on CBS Sports Network in 2013 and later ESPN starting in 2014. Bonner also calls college football games for the Mountain West Conference on AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain, where he received a regional Emmy Award in 2015.

Hall of Fame

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Bonner is a 2012 inductee into the Arena Football League's Hall of Fame.

He was inducted into the Cal State Northridge Matadors Hall of Fame in 1998.[7]

Personal

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Bonner is currently married with two children. He also runs a business where he coaches aspiring quarterbacks.[6]

Career statistics

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Year Team Passing Rushing
Cmp Att Pct Yds TD Int Rtg Att Yds TD
1993 Arizona 2 5 40.0 26 0 0 57.08 2 4 0
1994 Arizona 208 363 57.3 2,685 46 12 98.56 18 27 3
1995 Arizona 54 90 60.0 574 11 3 95.32 3 10 1
1996 Arizona 286 462 61.9 3,690 65 13 110.40 8 -4 0
1997 Arizona 241 400 60.2 3,331 67 6 120.32 14 1 3
1998 Arizona 295 451 65.4 3,571 70 8 121.00 11 12 5
2000 Arizona 269 473 56.9 3,454 72 7 111.79 12 -11 3
2001 Arizona 193 297 65.0 2,505 46 7 120.28 7 -13 1
2002 Arizona 270 439 61.5 3,219 69 8 115.59 9 10 4
2003 Arizona 289 431 67.1 3,696 89 7 126.51 9 10 1
2004 Arizona 348 536 64.9 3,850 77 9 115.03 24 14 9
2005 Arizona 189 320 59.1 2,334 51 10 108.26 9 -1 4
2006 Arizona 295 507 58.2 3,991 83 16 109.80 11 22 1
2007 Arizona 315 498 63.3 4,033 83 13 117.24 9 7 1
2008 Chicago 96 160 60.0 1,287 26 5 112.16 2 6 0
Career 3,350 5,432 61.7 42,246 855 124 115.72 148 74 36

Stats from ArenaFan:[8]

Notes

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  1. ^ "Founders' Award" (PDF). The Emerald of Sigma Pi. Vol. 93, no. 2. Spring 2008. pp. 21–24.
  2. ^ Sherdrick Bonner
  3. ^ "Arena Football League Transactions". www.oursportscentral.com. OurSports Central. March 25, 2002. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
  4. ^ ArenaFan Online : AFL Press Releases
  5. ^ Sherdrick Bonner - ArenaFootball.com – The Official Web site of the Arena Football League AFL
  6. ^ a b Bocanegra, Nick (September 16, 2020). "Matador Hall of Fame Spotlight: Sherdrick Bonner". California State University - Northridge.
  7. ^ "CSUN Hall of Fame".
  8. ^ "Sherdrick Bonner". arenafan.com. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
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