Jared Goff selected #1 overall by the LA Rams
From Cal's press release:
Former Cal quarterback Jared Goff became the second player in school history to be selected No. 1 overall when he was chosen by the Los Angeles Rams with the first pick of the 2016 NFL Draft at the Auditorium Theatre in Chicago on Thursday.
Quarterback Steve Bartkowski (Atlanta Falcons, 1975) is the only other former Cal player to be the No. 1 overall selection in the NFL Draft while Goff is the 27th former Cal player to be chosen in the first round with Cameron Jordan the most recent by the New Orleans Saints in 2011 and Aaron Rodgers the most recent quarterback by the Green Bay Packers in 2014, both at No. 24 overall
Goff will be the new face of a Rams’ franchise that is moving back to Los Angeles in 2016 after spending the past 21 seasons in St. Louis. The Rams are scheduled to play their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for three seasons (2016-18) before moving into the new Los Angeles Entertainment Center in Inglewood in 2019. The Rams had previously spent 49 seasons in the Los Angeles area from 1946-1994 after nine campaigns (1936-42, 1944-45) as the Cleveland Rams.
Goff started all 37 games possible during his three seasons at Cal from 2013-15 and finished his career with 26 school records including all-time marks for passing yards (12,220), touchdown passes (96), total offense (12,086) and completions (977). He was also second on the school’s career list for passing efficiency (143.95) behind only Aaron Rodgers.
In addition, Goff is third in Pac-12 history in passing yards and fourth in passing touchdowns, while he is 26th all-time nationally in passing yards and 27th in passing touchdowns.
Goff broke a pair of Pac-12 single-season records in his final campaign at Cal as a 2015 junior when he passed for 4,719 yards and 43 touchdowns to lead an 8-5 Cal team to a winning record and bowl game for the first time since 2011. He was also the first Cal quarterback to earn first-team All-Pac-12 honors since Rodgers in 2004, a semifinalist for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award and Cal’s Most Outstanding Player in a Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl victory over Air Force when he set the bowl’s single-game records by passing for 467 yards and six touchdowns in his final collegiate game. The bowl victory was Cal’s first since a 2008 win over Miami (Fla.) in the Emerald Bowl.
Goff led the Pac-12 and ranked third in the nation in both passing touchdowns and passing yards in 2015, while he was second both nationally and in the conference in passing yards per game (363.0 ypg). Goff was also among the top two in the league and top six nationally in total offense yards (4,711, No. 1 Pac-12, No. 5 NCAA), points responsible for (266, No. 1 Pac-12, No. 5 NCAA), total offense yards per game (362.4, No. 2 Pac-12, No. 5 NCAA), completions per game (26.23, No. 2 Pac-12, No. 5 NCAA) and points responsible for per game (No. 2 Pac-12, No. 6 NCAA).
In addition to being a semifinalist for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award, Goff was on watch lists for nearly every quarterback and player of the year award in 2015 while reaching as high as No. 3 on the USA Today Heisman Hot List and tied for sixth on the ESPN Heisman Watch after a 5-0 start. The start was the Golden Bears’ best since also winning their first five games in 2007 and one victory away from their best since the 1950 team won its first nine contests. Cal ranked as high as No. 19 in the Amway Coaches Poll and No. 20 in the AP Top 25 in the Week 8 national rankings for its highest spots in six seasons.
Goff finished his career on an incredible run, combining for 1,462 passing yards and 17 touchdown passes to a single interception for a 206.33 passer efficiency rating during the final three wins of his career against Oregon State, Arizona State and Air Forces. He passed for a school-record 542 yards in the victory over Oregon State.
Cal ranked third nationally in passing offense, eighth in total offense and 17th in scoring offense in 2015, with all of the numbers second in the Pac-12.
The successful 2015 season was the culmination of Cal’s seven-win turnaround from a 1-11 record in 2013 that is tied for the second best in school history behind only the eight-win improvement from a 2-10 mark in 1946 to a 10-1 record in 1948.
As a 2014 sophomore, Goff completed 316-of-509 passes (62.1%) for then single-season school records of 3,973 passing yards and 35 touchdowns to earn honorable mention All-Pac-12 honors for the second consecutive season. He passed for a career-high seven touchdowns in a 59-56 double overtime victory over Colorado and a then-single-game school record 527 yards in a 60-59 win at Washington State the following game. His 92-yard touchdown pass to Daniel Lasco against Colorado is the longest in school history.
Goff also earned honorable mention All-Pac-12 honors in his first collegiate season as a 2013 freshman when he set Cal then-single-season school records for passing yards (3,508), passes completed (320) and total offense (3,446) before later surpassing all of the single-season marks.
