“When he came in to talk about playing that last season (2003),” Bowden said in 2017, “I told him if he stayed I was going to move him back to quarterback. He’d decide to skip his senior season and enter the draft, a move that proved to turn wise but also provided another, “what-if?” His junior season was a revenge tour, putting up 1011 yards and 13 touchdowns on 65 catches, and ended the way that his Florida State career began: under center.Īfter Chris Rix was suspended for missing an exam and Fabian Walker, well, didn’t do too hot (throwing two interceptions in the first half, one being a pick six), Boldin was called in to throw live-action passes for only the second time since graduating high school.īoldin, who also caught a score, would still throw a touchdown later in the game, a 40-yard bomb to Craphonso Thorpe that still meant little in a 26-13 losing effort.
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Graduations, academic ineligibility and a series of other unfortunate quarterback events led to a single quarterback, redshirt freshman Chris Rix, on FSU’s depth chart heading into the 2001 season, giving way to a legitimate path for Boldin to have been FSU’s starter.Īlas, Boldin tore his ACL before the season started, missing the entire year. In his sophomore season, Boldin began to find his groove, tripling his touchdown total and putting up two 100-yard games en route to a season total 660 yards, though he only registered 33 yards in the national championship game vs. The move paid off: not in a huge way (with Boldin only catching 12 passes for 112 yards and two touchdowns in 1999 in addition to 55 kick return yards), but enough for the true freshman to get on the field in eight games for the eventual national champions. He had been promised by Bobby Bowden during his recruitment that he would be able to play quarterback, but after getting on campus and realizing his best chance at playing immediately would be by switching positions, he went to Bowden’s office and requested the change.
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