Jake Waters (born March 20, 1992) is an American former football quarterback who is the quarterbacks coach at Penn State. He played college football at Kansas State and was the Wildcats starting quarterback from 2013 to 2014.
Early life
College career Waters started his college career at Iowa Western Community College where he was a two-year starter, 2012 National Champion, First-team All-American, and set the record for completion percentage (73.3), breaking the former record of Cam Newton.
In 2013, he transferred to Kansas State where he beat out Daniel Sams for the starting job. He passed for 2,469 yards with 18 touchdowns and nine interceptions. He also had six rushing touchdowns. Waters returned as a starter in 2014. He finished the year with 3,501 passing yards, 22 passing touchdowns, seven interceptions and nine rushing touchdowns.
College statistics Season Team Passing Rushing 2013 Kansas State 13 159 260 61.2 2,469 18 9 156.8 118 312 6 2014 Kansas State 13 262 397 66.0 3,501 22 7 154.8 154 484 9 Career 26 421 657 64.1 5,970 40 16 155.6 272 796 15
Professional career Waters was signed by the Seattle Seahawks on August 18, 2015, after an injury to incumbent backup quarterback Tarvaris Jackson. Waters was released on August 26, 2015.
Waters signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League in April 2016. He dressed in all three of the Tiger-Cats' games as a backup before being traded to Saskatchewan.
Waters was traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders for a negotiation list player on July 9, 2016.
References
External links Official bio at Kansas State ESPN player page UTEP Miners profile Iowa State Cyclones profile