Ten things to know about Ingle Martin IV

By Os Davis  |   Tuesday, May 09, 2006  |  Comments( 5 )

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Somewhat buried in the hype surrounding early Packer draft picks like A.J. Hawk, Daryn Colledge and Will Blackmon, the heavily-monikered Ingle Martin IV was quietly selected in the fifth round. Below run a few tidbits about th guy who may just win the starting spot for the green-and-gold, post-Favre. If Martin does see playing time, you can wow friends with a little Green Bay Packers trivia. If he doesn't, this may very will be the first and last piece ever written about the Nashville guy with the numbered name.

Martin was drafted from the Division I-AA University of Furman (whose team name is the Paladins, surely the only Paladins in college football) in the fifth round as the 148th overall pick.

Martin represents the only Paladin drafted in 2006 and the first since 2000.

Martin was the first Southern Conference player taken this year, and the second QB out of division I-AA.

Martin is not the first Furman quarterback to be drafted by the Packers. In the eighth round of the 1977 draft, Green Bay selected none other than David Whitehurst. Whitehurst would become the starting quarterback for coach Bart Starr's pathetic Packers of 1978 and 1979: perhaps a scary bit of foreshadowing for the post-Favre era, should Aaron Rodgers not improve his standing among Packer staff (and perhaps Brett himself).

Before ultimately ending up as the starting quarterback for Furman College, Martin redshirted with the University of Florida as a freshman. In his second season with the Gators, Martin completed passes to the tune of sixty-one percent while racking up over 650 yards and three TDs. Despite such stats, Martin was taken out of the starting role for Week Five and never returned to the top spot while acting as a football version of the utility player. The QB transferred to Furman in response.

Martin finished his degree in business administration.

Martin is multi-dimensional. As a Gator sophomore, Martin started four games at quarterback, played wide receiver in five, and was called on to punt in six. As a senior at Furman, Martin acted as punter eight times, five times placing the ball inside the 20; Martin was named All-American as a punter in 2005. And, though never positioned at a running back spot, Martin's senior year saw him carry the ball seventy-eight times for 234 yards (for an average of exactly three yards per carry) and five TDs.

Martin dominates the Furman record book. In 2005, Martin set records with nearly 3,000 yards passing and twenty TD strikes. In just two seasons with the Paladins, Martin broke school records in passing yardage, total offense and TD passes.

Martin was married this year to Jennifer Wright, a University of Alabama softball pitcher. (Sorry, ladies.)
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