Danny Brannagan

Danny Brannagan (born July 4, 1986) is a Canadian former professional football quarterback for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.

Early life

Brannagan attended high school at Assumption Catholic Secondary School in Burlington where in his 5th and final year in 2004, he led the Assumption Crusaders to the GHAC finals where they defeated St. Jean de Brebeuf in a thriller, with the final score 29–28. Trailing by 27 points with less than 8 minutes to play, Brannagan led Assumption's offense to an amazing comeback, taking the lead with under 2 minutes left to play.

College career

2005 Brannagan began his university football career with the Queen's Golden Gaels in 2005 and quickly assumed the starting quarterback position. In a game against Wilfrid Laurier, he came off the bench in the fourth quarter and threw for 110 yards, earning the start the following week against York University. He threw for 341 yards in the team's win and never looked back, starting the final seven games of the season. He was named the OUA Rookie of the Year for the 2005 season after completing 115 passes out of 209 attempts for 1,860 yards to go along with 12 touchdowns and 10 interceptions.

2006-2007 In 2006, Brannagan started all ten games for Queen's (including two playoff games), leading the team to a 4–4 record. He finished the season ranked third in the OUA with 1,744 passing yards and threw for 11 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.

Heading into the final week of the 2009 regular season and despite having already missed a game due to injury, Brannagan led Western quarterback Michael Faulds by 164 career passing yards, and sat just 30 yards short of the all-time CIS record of 10,455 yards which was set just one season earlier by former McGill quarterback Matt Connell. However, Brannagan had a mediocre Week 8, completing 25 of 45 attempts for 289 yards and no touchdowns, while Faulds threw for an impressive 550 yards against the University of Toronto. He was named to Toronto's practice roster on June 23, 2010. On November 7, 2010, Brannagan made his pro-football debut at quarterback for the Argonauts against the Montreal Alouettes and became the first Canadian quarterback to take a snap for the Argos since Frank Cosentino in . He, also, became the first Canadian quarterback to take a snap in the Canadian Football League since Alouettes' quarterback, Larry Jusdanis in . Despite making his CFL debut at the end of the 2010 season, Brannagan was released by the Argonauts on June 25, 2011.