Buck Pierce

Infobox CFL player
Name=Buck James Pierce
team=British Columbia Lions

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status=Active
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position1=Quarterback
number=16
College=New Mexico State
DateOfBirth=birth date and age|1981|11|15
Birthplace=Gasquet, California
Height_ft=6
Height_in=1
Weight_lbs=210
playing_years=2005-"Present"
playing_teams=British Columbia Lions
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CFL=469 Buck James Pierce is a professional Canadian football player with the CFL British Columbia Lions. Pierce plays at the quarterback position for the Lions, and wears jersey #16. On 23 June 2008, Pierce was named the Lions' starter by coach Wally Buono.

High School

The son of Tim and Connie Pierce, he attended Del Norte High School, in Crescent City, California. He was a three-year starter at Del Norte, guiding the Warriors to a 16-4 record as a junior and senior.

He passed for 2,225 yards and 25 touchdowns as a senior in 1999, earning Big 5 Conference Most Valuable Player honors for the second consecutive season. He broke the school’s single-season and career records for both passing yardage and passing TD’s in 1999. Buck threw for 2,010 yards and 19 TD’s as a junior in 1998 and 1,180 yards and 10 TD’s as a sophomore in 1997.

He was voted to the Times Standard North Coast California All-Century team. He qualified for North State meet as a long jumper, leaping better than 22 feet as a junior. He also led DNHS to a pair of league titles as a starting guard on the basketball squad.

College

Pierce attended New Mexico State University, in Las Cruces, New Mexico where he majored in kinesiology. In 2001, on his first run from scrimmage as a college player, Pierce ripped off a 75-yard run against Louisville. He did not throw an interception in 2001 and did not throw one in 2002 until the fourth quarter against North Texas (11/16) in the next to last game of the season.

Wearing the #11 jersey, he started seven games as a sophomore, and took the top job in 2004 as a senior. He consistently posted high effieciency ratings as a college quarterback.

Professional

Following the 2008 pre-season and a tough competition with back-up Jarious Jackson, Pierce was named the BC Lions starting quarterback. However, at the beginning of regular season play he is acting as the back-up due to injury.

Pierce signed a free agent contract with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League on May 16, 2005 after being passed over by the Saskatchewan Roughriders..

He has served primarily as a backup during his tenure with the Lions, but has started several games. Pierce is a talented scrambling quarterback and generally makes very precise passes to his receiving corps.

In 2006, He led the CFL in completion percentage (73.7%) and had the second highest quarterback rating (109.0). [http://www.bclions.com/index.php?module=roster&func=display&ros_id=469] .

In 2007, Buck stepped up to assume the role of starting quarterback while Dave Dickenson recovered from a concussion. By mid-August, Pierce was hobbled by injuries to his ribs, toe, hand, and shoulder, but he persevered in the starting role until finally relinquishing the role to third-stringer Jarious Jackson, who himself performed well. Pierce has been referred to as the Lions' "walking bruise". [Beamish, Mike: "Q&A with Buck Pierce", "Vancouver Sun", August 16, 2007, as e-published in "canada.com" [http://www.canada.com] .]

Buck made his CFL debut and completed his first CFL pass on Aug 19/05 versus Hamilton and earned his first career start in Week 14 at Winnipeg (Oct 10/05). As of the end of 2007 he had started 11 games as a Lion compiling a mark of 7-3-1. Ranks 16th on the all-time BC passing yards list with 3,444 yards and his career passing efficiency rating of 101.7 is third best among all Lions quarterbacks.

CFL Statistics

Passing

Year Team Att Comp % Yards Long TD % Int % Rating 2005 BC 71 43 60.6 679 54 3 4.3 1 1.4 100.6 2006 BC 186 137 73.7 1752 67 11 5.9 6 3.2 109.0 2007 BC 127 81 63.8 1013 35 5 3.9 3 2.4 91.7 Career 384 261 70.0 3444 67 19 4.9 10 2.6 101.7

Rushing

Year Team Att Yards Avg Long TD Fum 2005 BC 15 104 6.9 24 2 0 2006 BC 31 294 9.5 ? 3 2 2007 BC 22 164 7.5 ? 1 0 Career 68 562 8.2 24 6 2

References

External links

* [http://www.bclions.com/index.php?module=roster&func=display&ros_id=469 BC Lions Official Website - Player Profile: Buck Pierce #16]