Jon Kitna American football player
Jon Kelly Kitna (born September 21, 1972) is an American football coach and former quarterback. After playing college football for Central Washington University, he signed with the Seattle Seahawks in 1996 and was allocated to the Barcelona Dragons of NFL Europe in 1997. He led the Dragons to a World Bowl championship, and became the starting quarterback for the Seahawks in 1998 after spending the 1997 and most of the 1998 seasons as the backup to Warren Moon. Following a four-year stint with Seattle, Kitna signed with the Cincinnati Bengals in 2001. He played for the Bengals from 2001 to 2005 as their starting quarterback, and, later, the mentor to Carson Palmer. He was a member of the Detroit Lions from 2006 to 2008, and the Dallas Cowboys from 2009 to 2011. Kitna was re-signed by the Cowboys as a third string quarterback on December 24, 2013.From 2012 to 2014, Kitna was head football coach and a math teacher at his alma mater Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington. In 2015, he resigned to take the head coaching job at Waxahachie High School in Waxahachie, Texas.
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| Career start | 1997 |
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| Undrafted year | 1996 |