Chad Henne will start Week 17 for Chiefs
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2924768-patrick-mahomes-to-be-rested-by-chiefs-vs-chargers-chad-henne-to-start
Chad Henne, Michigan great from what seems like a million years ago, will start for the Chiefs this weekend against the Chargers as the team rests Patrick Mahomes with the #1 seed already locked in. This will be his first start since 2014 with the Jaguars. Chad got a Super Bowl ring last year, and being a long-term NFL backup QB is one of the best gigs out there from an earnings vs safety standpoint. Props to him for sticking in the league this long, and good luck this weekend!
December 30th, 2020 at 2:59 PM ^
Will he have Mario available for late game heroics?
December 30th, 2020 at 3:00 PM ^
Really underappreciated in his time here. Frankly, one of the all-time great Michigan QBs. The Florida game was a thing of beauty. Sigh.
If this website is correct, he's put away a nice chunk of change: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/chad-henne-4710/cash-earnings/
December 30th, 2020 at 4:05 PM ^
It’s incredibly satisfying, yet also depressing, to watch that Capital One Bowl. It looked like Carr finally decided to let his team loose. And you Began to wonder “where the hell has this been for the last decade?”
December 30th, 2020 at 4:09 PM ^
Yeah honestly watching that game made me upset. Michigan turned the ball over 4 times and still won. The way Michigan moved the ball was amazing. Florida had no answers. Michigan did their usual thing and tried to piss the game away with all the turnovers but managed to hold on for the win.
December 30th, 2020 at 4:49 PM ^
“Began to wonder” = me screaming at the TV.
December 30th, 2020 at 5:49 PM ^
He QB'd a loss to a fucking Division 2 team.
December 30th, 2020 at 5:58 PM ^
They put up 32 points. You can't fault the offense when the defense played like they would fail a piss test.
December 31st, 2020 at 1:26 PM ^
Hear, hear. My all-time favorite Wolverine. Solid leader, solid dude and legit always came through in the clutch and under pressure. Haven’t had anyone of that caliber since (aside from Denard).
December 30th, 2020 at 3:01 PM ^
It's pretty amazing he's still in the league. Chad's barely started at all recently but has managed to stick in the league now for 13 years and has made north of $35mil without taking a zillion hits. Happy for him
December 30th, 2020 at 8:18 PM ^
He started in Miami for a bit. Long time ago. Wasn't that the year Chad Pennington got eleventy billion concussions?
But what I mostly remember him for is that one magical Monday Night Football, where he and Brady set records.
Henne had 400+ yards, Brady 500+. It was amazing to watch.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:02 PM ^
To this day the Henne/Hart/Manningham roster was my favorite to watch. There have been great players from before and after but there was something special about Carr's last starting class.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:36 PM ^
I still think about '06, and what could have been had Crable not hit Smith late and OOB. Grrrgh
December 30th, 2020 at 4:36 PM ^
Let me help you. Michigan plays Florida. Jake Long does a nice job blocking one of Florida's DEs. Michigan still gets stomped about as badly as OSU did. In the following season, Ron English still doesn't prepare well for Armanti Edwards.
December 31st, 2020 at 2:41 AM ^
I understand that they had almost no film to use to prepare with. But who would have thought that UM, just two years later, would be stumbling all over itself trying to be their own version of that team? And that 3 years and a decade would pass, and they would still have not recovered.
December 30th, 2020 at 5:51 PM ^
Yeah 2007 was really fun.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:03 PM ^
He's made over $35M in his career. Backup QB in the NFL is a good gig if you can get one.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:14 PM ^
Not too shabby. It's also pretty jarring to see he made less than 300K as a second-round pick back in 2008...I'm pretty sure the league minimum is about triple that now.
Also looks like he is under contract for next season. As a backup making that small a salary that doesn't really mean much, as they could cut him without really feeling it, but gotta assume if he plays halfway decently this weekend that he has a good shot to stick with the Chiefs for at least that.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:33 PM ^
He's good enough to pick up a contract. Honestly, as long as he's affordable, I see no reason why the Chiefs would move away.
December 30th, 2020 at 4:47 PM ^
Yeah, if you've got a backup line Henne who is happy there and doesn't cost you a ton but can be effective (and we'll see how he looks as a starter this weekend), there's no reason for a team to move on from him.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:24 PM ^
Even better than career backup QB is the Foles/Cousins/Cassel/Mariota route where you play well for a few games to a season, then get a team to gamble on you with a huge contract only to discover that you are in-fact, a backup QB:
Cousins: $140 million (9 years)
Foles: $74 million (9 years)
Cassel: $65 million (14 years)
Mariota: $54 million (6 years)
December 30th, 2020 at 3:25 PM ^
Add Carson Wentz to this list...
December 30th, 2020 at 3:31 PM ^
No one has done this better than Sam Bradford.
December 30th, 2020 at 6:27 PM ^
The master
December 30th, 2020 at 4:58 PM ^
Cousins is sort of the poster child for "good QB if you put a good team around him". He's made an insane amount of money being pretty good and teams talking themselves into the hope he'd be better than that. Both Washington and Minnesota kept making bets he'd make that leap and he never really did, though he's good enough that the bottom usually won't fall out on you completely.
Cassel playing in the NFL for 14 years is pretty crazy to me, but he basically cashed in one good year with the Pats. Foles has that SB win at least and the nickname of Donkey for...reasons. That's a pretty good career in my book. I really thought Mariota was going to be a good NFL QB.
December 30th, 2020 at 6:39 PM ^
Credit due to Cousins. I watched a number of games he qb'd for the Redskins. He put up better than decent numbers. They never should have got rid of him.
Dan Snyder is just moron and makes too many football decisions. Dwayne Haskins is a good example of that.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:26 PM ^
I wonder what his 2016 $35 incentive bonus was for?
December 30th, 2020 at 3:14 PM ^
He's gotta be approaching Todd Collins territory at this point!
December 30th, 2020 at 9:55 PM ^
Todd Collins: the “OG” UM NE recruit (Walpole, MA)
December 30th, 2020 at 3:17 PM ^
My first game at the Big House was Chad Henne’s first start, against Miami (OH).
December 30th, 2020 at 3:23 PM ^
I didn't even realize he was still playing. Good for him.
I would love to see him take the Griese route and enter the broadcast booth when he's done.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:23 PM ^
Good for Chad. Young man has worked hard and waited for his opportunity.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:24 PM ^
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Henne has been more successful in the NFL than all OSU quarterbacks in history combined. Did they ever have even a backup worth a damn or anything like that?
December 30th, 2020 at 3:33 PM ^
Kirk Herbst.......
Oh, never mind!!!?
December 30th, 2020 at 3:48 PM ^
I know this is supposed to make us feel better about our relative position vis-a-vis Ohio State, but it doesn't move the needle for me. If my favorite program had dominated its main rival for 20 years and won two national championships in that span (while my rival barely even contended for conference championships, let alone national championships), I really wouldn't care about how our QBs did in the NFL.
December 30th, 2020 at 10:01 PM ^
Mike Tomczak.
Signed with Chicago as an undrafted free agent and got a Super Bowl ring his first year. Had some good years with the Steelers but most of his career was wearing the ballcap and toting the clipboard. Finished with the Loins in 2000.
16 years in the league as an undrafted free agent. At the QB position. Gotta respect that.
December 30th, 2020 at 3:49 PM ^
Nice gig if you can get it:
In 2020, Henne will earn a base salary of $1,250,000 and a signing bonus of $750,000, while carrying a cap hit of $1,625,000 and a dead cap value of $2,000,000.
December 30th, 2020 at 4:36 PM ^
JH needs to offer him a job on staff as the QB coach when he retires from the league. I doubt he will want to coach with the amount of cash he has made in the league. The guy obviously knows offense staying in the league this long.
December 30th, 2020 at 5:43 PM ^
If he does well do the Chiefs start him in the Divisional Round? Split snaps with mahommes?
December 30th, 2020 at 9:22 PM ^
Backup QB is probably the best job in the world