Team: Jacksonville Jaguars Height: 6-1 Weight: 245 Age: 30 Born: 2/14/1978 East Orange , NJ College: East Carolina Experience: 7th season High School: Southern HS [Durham, NC]

David Douglas Garrard (born February 14, 1978 in East Orange, New Jersey) is an American football quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Jaguars in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at East Carolina.

David Garrard grew up in Durham, North Carolina, where he attended Southern High School. Garrard was 14 years old when his mother died from breast cancer. When Garrard began his NFL career, he created The David Garrard Foundation to promote breast cancer awareness and research.

Doctors diagnosed Garrard with Crohn's disease in 2004. Despite undergoing surgery in June 2004 to remove a nearly 12-inch portion of his intestines, Garrard played during the 2004 NFL season.

Garrard was drafted as the apparent successor to starting quarterback Mark Brunell. However, following the 2002 season, the Jaguars fired then head coach Tom Coughlin, and new head coach Jack Del Rio drafted Byron Leftwich with the seventh overall pick in the 2003 NFL Draft. Leftwich replaced an injured Mark Brunell as the starting quarterback during the 2003 season and Garrard continued to serve as the team's backup quarterback.

Garrard started for the Jaguars' when Leftwich was injured during Week 9 of the 2004 National Football League season with a sprained left knee. After the 2004 season, Garrard opted to stay with the Jaguars as a back-up instead of pursuing a chance at starting for another team.

Garrard also started 5 games of the 2005 season when Leftwich went down with an injury in week 11. With Garrard as starting quarterback, the Jaguars finished the regular season by going 4-1 and made the playoffs, with the only loss coming at the hands of the Indianapolis Colts. Leftwich then returned as the Jaguars starter for the wildcard playoff game, but was intercepted for a touchdown and proved ineffective in a 28-3 loss to the New England Patriots.

In 2006, Del Rio named Garrard the starter in Week 8 and attributed the change to Leftwich's chronic injury problems, but Leftwich claimed he was healthy enough to continue serving as the team's starter. Garrard was inconsistent and went 5-5 to finish the season as the Jaguars missed the playoffs. In November 2006, Garrard was intercepted four times in a 13-10 loss at home against the Houston Texans.

In February 2007, Del Rio attempted to avoid a quarterback controversy by naming Leftwich the team's unconditional starting quarterback. However, Garrard outplayed Leftwich in the 2007 preseason, throwing for 456 yards, one passing touchdown and another rushing touchdown. Del Rio said Garrard gave the Jaguars a better chance to win than Leftwich and announced Garrard would be the starting quarterback of the Jacksonville Jaguars on August 31, 2007. The Jaguars released Leftwich the next day. Garrard led the Jaguars to a 11-5 record and threw for 18 TDs and 2,509 yds opposed to only 3 interceptions, which gave him a quarterback rating of 102.2.

On January 5, 2008, In the AFC Wild Card Game, David led his team to a 31-29 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. Down 29-28 with 2:36 to go, he led his team in a field goal-scoring drive highlighted by a 32-yard QB run on 4th and 2 that eventually set up the game winning field goal for the Jaguars.

On January 12, 2008, In the AFC Divisional Playoff Game, David threw for 278 yards with 2 touchdowns and 1 interception against the unbeaten New England Patriots. However, the Patriots won the game, 31-20.