Trent Dilfer

Trent Farris Dilfer (born March 13, 1972) is a former American football quarterback and analyst who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 14 seasons. He is best known as the starting quarterback of the Baltimore Ravens during their Super Bowl-winning season in 2000. Dilfer was selected sixth overall in the 1994 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he played six seasons. He signed with the Ravens in 2000 as a backup before becoming the team's starter midway through the year, which concluded with the franchise's first Super Bowl victory in Super Bowl XXXV over the New York Giants. Despite the championship, Dilfer was not re-signed by the Ravens, becoming the first starting quarterback to be released after a Super Bowl win. His next four seasons were spent primarily as a backup with the Seattle Seahawks and he had short stints with the Cleveland Browns and the San Francisco 49ers before retiring in 2008. Shortly after announcing his retirement, Dilfer was hired by ESPN as an NFL analyst, a position he held until 2017. He is also the head coach of the quarterback camp Elite 11. From 2019 to 2022, Dilfer served as the head football coach at Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. In November 2022, Dilfer was hired as head coach of the UAB Blazers.