Player Profile
Ronald Curry
Position: Quarterback
College: North Carolina
Height: 6-1.7
Weight: 220
Hometown: Hampton, Va.

Career Notes | Agility | High School | Personal | Stats

ANALYSIS

Positives: Two-sport athlete (football, basketball) with compact hamstrings and good overall muscle development…Durable player who absorbs punishment well…Shows quick footwork dropping and setting up in the pocket…Has a quick release and the arm strength to throw deep…Take-charge character who works hard on the field…Has the scrambling ability to escape the pocket pressure and throw on the run.

Negatives: Forces a lot of his passes into traffic rather than tucking and running with the ball…Fails to sense pressure in the pocket and appears more comfortable throwing on the run…Has marginal accuracy, often overthrowing in both the long and short areas…Even though he is a physical runner, he lacks that sudden burst with the ball…Shows poor judgment and needs to do a better job of spotting his secondary targets…Lacks the soft touch on his passes and receivers have to extend too much to get to the deep throws…Seems zoned in on his primary target too much and displays poor timing unleashing the long bombs.

CAREER NOTES

Two-way standout who also performed as the starting point guard on the school's 2000-2001 basketball team…Four-year gridiron starter who shared signal-calling duties with Darian Durant in his final season…Holds the school's career-records with 4,987 yards passing and 6,236 yards in total offense…Also established team career-records for quarterbacks with 1,249 yards and 13 touchdowns rushing…Finished his career with 345 completions of 695 passes (49.6%) with 28 touchdowns and 35 interceptions.

2001 SEASON

Started ten contests (did not play vs. Georgia Tech and Wake Forest), completing 62 of 134 passes (46.3%) for 1,005 yards, eight touchdowns and six interceptions…Carried 89 times for 253 yards (2.8 avg) and three scores…Averaged 125.8 yards per game in total offense.

  • Oklahoma - Connected on 5 of 14 attempts for 74 yards.
  • Maryland - Threw for 61 yards on 6 of 12 chances.
  • Texas - Ran for a 20-yard touchdown and completed 5 of 20 passes for 69 yards.
  • Florida State - Threw a 53-yard scoring strike to Kory Bailey, finishing with 93 yards on 4 of 12 tries…Also ran for a 1-yard touchdown.
  • North Carolina State - Gained 58 yards on 7 of 15 passes.
  • East Carolina - Finally broke the century mark with 10 of 16 throws for 127 yards and a 5-yard score to Zach Hilton.
  • Virginia - Hit on 3 of 5 passes for 81 yards and a 66-yard touchdown to Sam Aiken.
  • Clemson - Added 109 yards on 3 of 7 tosses, including a 48-yard score to Bosley Allen before leaving the game with a hamstring pull.
  • Georgia Tech - Did not play (hamstring).
  • Wake Forest - Did not play (death in the family).
  • Duke - Had his best game of the season, as he connected on 11 of 19 passes for 217 yards and 3 touchdowns, including 18 & 72-yarders to Aiken…Added another score on an 11-yard run.
  • Southern Methodist - Threw for 116 yards and a score on 8 of 14 attempts.
  • Auburn (Peach Bowl) - Closed out his career by earning Offensive Most Valuable Player honors as he completed 5 of 6 passes for 25 yards and ran for the game-winning 62-yard touchdown in a 16-10 decision.

2000 SEASON

Voted UNC's Offensive MVP…Established the single-season total offense school record with 2,676 yards, including 2,325 passing yards and 351 rushing yards…Ranked fourth in the Atlantic Coast Conference and 23rd in the country, averaging 243.3 total offense yards per game…Set a school record with 211.4 yards passing per game…Completed 163 of 304 attempts (53.6%) for 2,325 yards, 11 touchdowns and 12 interceptions…Had a pass efficiency rating of 121.91…Second on the team in rushing, with 119 carries for 363 yards, averaging 33.1 yards per game…Threw 38 passes of at least 20 yards, including 13 passes over 40 yards and eight passes over fifty yards…Tossed eight touchdowns over 27 yards and four over 50 yards.

1999 SEASON

Despite missing more than six contests after rupturing his right Achilles' tendon vs. Georgia Tech, he led UNC in total offense yards, pass completions and passing yards…Posted a pass efficiency rating of 92.00…Completed 54 of 110 passes for 682 yards…Tossed three touchdown passes and was picked off 10 times…Averaged 136.4 passing yards per game…Led the Tar Heels with 908 total offense yards…The next two players combined for just 838 yards…Averaged 181.6 total offense yards per game…Accounted for 65.8 percent of Carolina's total offense in the four full games in which he played…That was the highest percentage by any player in the ACC…Through the four full games in which he played, he was third in the ACC in total offense (38th nationally).

1998 SEASON

Played in every game, starting four contests…Completed 66 of 147 passes (44.9%) for 975 yards and six touchdowns.

AGILITY TESTS

4.59 in the 40-yard dash…2.66 20-yard dash…1.6 10-yard dash…4.11 20-yard shuttle…7.06 three-cone drill…31 ½-inch arm length…9 ¾-inch hands…Right-handed…22 Wonderlic score.

HIGH SCHOOL

Named the National Football Player of the Year by Parade, Gatorade, the Atlanta Touchdown Club (Bobby Dodd Award) and the Columbus (Ohio) Touchdown Club, the National Football Player of the Year on offense by USA Today and the McDonald's National Basketball Player of the Year at Hampton (Va.) High…Recipient of the Morgan Wootten Award and the Franklin D. Watkins Memorial Trophy for achievements in athletics, scholarship and community service…Member of the National Honor Society and the Latin Honor Society…Played quarterback, safety, punter and returned punts and kickoffs…Led Hampton to three consecutive football state championships…Hampton was 13-0 his last year and posted a state record 40 consecutive wins…In his career, he was responsible for 186 touchdowns (90 passing, 74 rushing and 22 by returns)…As a senior, he completed 119 of 226 passes (.527) for 2577 yards and 27 touchdowns and rushed 115 times for 866 yards and 22 touchdowns…Returned four punts for scores and had eight interceptions, including one he returned 101 yards for a touchdown…In his career, he passed for 8,212 yards and 90 touchdowns and rushed for 3,307 yards and 74 scores…Set state records for passing yards and total offense yards (11,519)…Completed 370 of 701 passes in his career…Scored 22 touchdowns on kickoff or punt returns…Earned first-team all-state quarterback honors in each of his four seasons…All-state as a defensive back and kick returner in each of his last three years…Virginia High School Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year for three consecutive seasons…Sports Illustrated's High School Player of the Month in September 1997…Set school records in basketball for points and assists…Averaged 21.9 points, 5.7 assists, 5.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals per game as a senior…Led team to the basketball state title as a junior…Most Valuable Player of the 1998 McDonald's High School Basketball All-Star Game…Slam dunk champion at the McDonald's Game of First-team Parade All-America and second-team Street & Smith All-America in basketball as a senior.

PERSONAL

Afro-American Studies major…Born Ronald Antonio Curry on 5/28/79, in Hampton, Va.

STATS

PASSING STATS
YEARATTCOMPPCTYARDSTDYD/ATTYD/CMPINTI/PCTLGGM/AVG
19981476644.997566.6314.7774.767088.64
19991105449.168236.2012.63109.0941136.40
200030416353.62325117.6514.26123.9578211.36
20011346246.3100587.5016.2164.4872100.50
TOTAL69534549.64987287.1814.46355.0478134.78

RUSHING STATS
YEARGPGSNOYARDSAVGTDLONG
19981104804195.2230
19990505602263.8231
200011111193512.9646
20011010892532.8339
TOTAL373034812493.51346

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