Chad Pennington
The Jets thought they had a franchise quarterback when they drafted Pennington with the 18th pick in the 2000 NFL draft. For a while, it looked like he truly was going to be one of the ascending talents in the game. Despite several productive seasons, injuries and a lack of arm strength kept Pennington from fully achieving the level of success that would have put him in the league’s top tier at the position. At the time of his retirement in 2010, Pennington was the NFL’s all-time leader in career completion percentage at 66%.
Nowadays, Pennington lives in Kentucky with his wife and three children. He has a completely different line of work, becoming heavily involved in the business of bulls – breeding not riding. He opened his own stable for breeding these massive 1,500-pound animals. Pennington also became a high school football coach in 2018 at a high school in Kentucky.