Enters his 11th AFL season and his 10th with San Jose...Set an AFL record in 2007 with his 4th consecutive 4,000-yard passing season...Became the 2nd player in AFL history to throw for 70 or more TDs in 6 straight seasons...Has thrown for more yards over the past five seasons (22,322) than any QB in the AFL...Has started 91 straight games (reg. and post season) and has played in a team record 127 regular season games...Enters the season ranked 5th all-time in TD passes (615), 6th in passing yards (32,233) and completions (2,541), and 7th in pass attempts (3,803)...Has an 84-29 regular season record as team's starting QB, including a 51-7 ledger in home games...Is a three-time All-AFL selection, two-time ArenaBowl MVP and the 2002 Offensive Player of the Year...Has three 400-yard passing games, the second-most in league history, and has 33 career 300-yard games...AFL's career leader with a pass efficiency rating of 124.0...Established an AFL record by completing all 15 of his passes in a win at Colorado on April 22, 2005...Holder of virtually all San Jose's regular and post season passing records...Previous AFL experience came with the Anaheim Piranhas in 1997...Acquired from Buffalo in exchange for FB/LB Tony Burse and WR/LB Melvin Phillips on March 11, 1999...Signed a one-year contract on January 10, 2008

2007: Started all 16 games for a 5th straight season...Set team game records for most completions (37), attempts (54 twice), yards (445) and TDs (10)...Became the 2nd player in AFL history to throw for 70 or more TDs in 6 straight seasons and the 5th player to throw 100 TD passes in a season...Threw for 4,608 yards setting an AFL record with his 4th consecutive 4,000-yard passing season...Placed 2nd in the AFL with a team record 399 completions...The 5th QB in AFL history with 600 TD passes (615) and 6th to surpass the 30,000 mark in career pass yards...Threw the 500th TD pass of his SJ career leading team to its first opening day win since 2004 (at Los Angeles 3/4)...Completed a team record and career-high 37 passes on a team record 54 attempts for 346 yards (at Chicago 3/9)...Completed 23-of-26 attempts for the 2nd-highest completion percentage in team game history (vs Tampa Bay 3/31)...Threw for 352 yards to surpass the 29,000 career yard level (vs Colorado 4/6)...Threw for a team record and career-high 445 yards, the 10th highest single-game total in AFL history (at New Orleans 4/13)...Eclipsed the 30,000 mark in career pass yards throwing for 250 (vs Utah 4/28)...Threw for 316 yards, his 35th career 300-yard game, with 7 TDs and scored his 1st rush TD since 3/28/05 to account for all 8 of team's TDs (at Arizona 5/5)...Had his 4th straight game with a rating over 133.0 (vs Las Vegas 5/12)...Tossed 9 TD passes to surpass John Kaleo for 5th on AFL's career list (vs Grand Rapids 5/19)...Completed all 13 of his 2nd half pass attempts and was 22-of-30 for 278 yards on the game (vs Orlando 6/1)...Threw a team record and career-high 10 TD passes, including the 600th of his career (at Utah 6/9)...Tossed his 100th TD pass of the season playing the 1st half of his 135th career regular season AFL game (at Las Vegas 6/25). POSTSEASON: Started all 3 games completing 75.7% of his passes (81-of-107) with 19 TDs...Moved into 2nd place with 89 career playoff TD passes...Tied an AFL postseason record with 9 TD passes and had his 6th career 300-yard playoff game (vs Colorado 7/7)...Completed an ArenaBowl record 82.7% of his passes (24-of-29) with 4 TDs for Offensive and Game MVP honors (vs Columbus 7/29).

2006: Started all 16 games for the fourth straight season...Broke his own 2005 league record (4,796) for passing yards in a season with 4,841...Threw the 500th TD pass of his career and set a team season record for pass attempts (606)...Set a team record and led the AFL with 8 300-yard passing games while placing in the top 5 in 7 QB stat categories...Played in his 100th regular season game with San Jose tossing his 450th career TD pass (at Chicago 2/26)...Named Offensive Player of the Game after throwing for 295 yards with 8 TDs (at Utah 3/4)...Threw for 393 yards, the 5th-most in team history, and completed the 1,900th pass of his career (vs Los Angeles 3/12)...Surpassed the 25,000 level in career pass yards with 337 on 30 completions (vs Georgia 3/17)...Tossed a season-high 9 TD passes (vs Arizona 4/2)...Completed his 2,000th career pass and did not throw a TD pass for the first time in his career as a starting QB (at Tampa Bay 4/7)...Threw for 388 yards setting a team season record with his 6th 300-yard game and 28th career (vs Las Vegas 4/14)...Tossed his 500th career TD pass (vs Austin 4/22)...Moved past Todd Hammel into 6th place in AFL career pass yards (vs Colorado 5/6)...Threw for 302 yards to set a new AFL record for most in a season with 4,841 (vs Columbus 5/13). POSTSEASON: Started both games completing 52-of-70 attempts for 634 yards with 13 TDs while rushing for two scores...Threw for 320 yards, his 4th career 300-yard playoff game, with 8 TDs and scored his 3rd career playoff rush TD (vs Arizona 5/27)...Threw for 314 yards, his 5th career 300-yard playoff game and scored his 4th career playoff rush TD (vs Chicago 6/3).

2005: Started all 16 games for the third straight year...Set an AFL season record for pass yards with 4,796, breaking Jim Kubiak's 2003 record of 4,762...AFL leader in total offense (4,816), pass yards/game (299.8), completion percentage (68.5), passer rating (122.0), yards (4,796) and yards/attempt (8.8)...Completed 374-of-546 attempts with five 300-yard passing games and 84 TDs...Established an AFL game record by completing all 15 of his passes, eclipsing the previous perfect completion-game mark set by Carolina's Carlos Garay (11-of-11) in 2000...Had a 3-game stretch where he completed 28 consecutive passes...AFL's Offensive Player of the Month for April...Threw 31 passes to reach the 2,000 mark in his SJ career (vs Las Vegas 2/5)...Threw for 399 yards on a season-high 31 completions (at Los Angeles 2/20)...Completed the 1,500th pass of his SJ career (at Orlando 3/6)...Became the 8th player in AFL history with 20,000 career pass yards (vs Grand Rapids 3/18)...Named Offensive Player of the Game after completing 26-of-34 passes for 4 TDs (vs Arizona 4/3)...Became the 8th player in AFL history to throw 400 career TD passes (vs Dallas 4/15)...Offensive Player of the Game had a perfect QB rating of 158.3 after completing all 15 of his attempts, eclipsing the previous AFL mark of 11-for-11 set by Carolina's Carlos Garay in 2000, for 331 yards and 8 TDs in three quarters (at Colorado 4/22)...Tied Todd Hammel for 6th on AFL's career TD pass list and completed his first 8 passes to run his streak of consecutive completions to 28 (vs Nashville 4/29)...Threw for 228 yards to establish a new AFL season record with 4,796 (vs Georgia 5/21). POSTSEASON: Completed 34 passes, the 2nd highest playoff total in AFL history, for 392 yards, the 4th-most in a league playoff game, in 55 attempts in a loss at Colorado (5/29).

2004: Started all 16 games for a second straight season...Named to the All-Arena second team...Completed 335-of-459 passes for 4,111 yards and 75 TDs with just 7 INTs...Had a completion percentage above 70 in 12 of 16 games and set an AFL record at 73.0 percent...Established a new league mark with a 133.5 pass efficiency rating...Selected AFL's Offensive Player of the Month twice (Feb. and Apr.) and Offensive Player of the Week twice (Wk 6 and 13)...Named Offensive Player of the Game nine times...Became the 12th QB in league history with 300 career TD passes...Had a perfect passer rating of 158.3 completing 18-of-22 for 292 yards with 6 TDs, also reached the 15,000 mark in career passing yards (vs Colorado 3/14)...Perfect passer rating for second straight game completing 15-of-18 for 228 yards and 3 TDs (vs Las Vegas 3/20)...Threw 6 TD passes to become 12th player in AFL history with 300 career (vs Los Angeles 3/26)...Tossed a season-high 9 TD passes (at Tampa Bay 4/4)...Threw the 1,200th completion of his career and surpassed the 16,000 mark in career passing yards (at Dallas 4/10)...Threw the 300th TD pass of his San Jose career (vs Chicago 4/16)...Completed all 10 of his second half attempts and added a rushing TD to earn Offensive Player of the Game honors (vs New Orleans 5/1)...Moved into 8th place on AFL career TD pass list by throwing 4 (vs Philadelphia 5/22). POSTSEASON: Completed 76-of-108 attempts for 824 yards and 17 TDs without an INT...The only starting QB in the playoffs to NOT throw an INT...Named Offensive MVP of ArenaBowl XVIII after a title game record 8 TD passes (at Arizona 6/27).

2003: Started all 16 games and was the only QB on the team to throw a pass...Completed 310-of-476 for 3,966 yards and 72 TDs with a team season-high 16 INTs...Completed 60 percent or more of his passes 12 times...Moved into 13th place all-time in career passing yards...Had the 2nd-fewest pass completions (10) in any start in his San Jose career (at Arizona 2/2)...Threw for 160 yards, to pass Kurt Warner for 15th place on all-time passing yardage list (at Georgia 2/16)...Had the 700th pass completion of his San Jose career (vs Colorado 2/22)...Threw for 252 yards to pass the 11,000 mark in career pass yards (at Las Vegas 3/2)...Completed his first 9 passes and ended 19-of-25 for 267 yards and 3 TDs (at Chicago 3/9)...Completed his first 11 passes and had 23 in 36 attempts for 289 yards and 5 TDs (vs Arizona 3/23)...Reached 900 career completions and 12,000 career pass yards (at Dallas 4/6)...Completed his first 10 attempts and threw for 320 yards, to move into 13th place all-time (vs Indiana 4/19)...Threw for 250 yards to surpass the 13,000 mark in career pass yards (at Colorado 4/27)...Went 21-of-31 for 251 yards with 6 TDs and ran for the game-winning two-point conversion (vs Grand Rapids 5/3)...Completed the 1,000th pass of his career (at Tampa Bay 5/11)...Had season-highs of 30 completions on 43 attempts for 339 yards with 6 TDs (vs Los Angeles 5/17). POSTSEASON: Completed 18-of-23 passes for 318 yards and 4 TD (vs Georgia 5/31)...Completed just 19-of-39 passes for 254 yards and 7 TDs in semifinal loss to Arizona (6/8).

2002: AFL's Offensive Player of the Year after completing 64.7 percent of his pass attempts for 3,346 yards and 70 TDs with just 5 interceptions in 13 games...Tabbed co-Offensive Player of the Month for May by completing 76-of-112 passes for 948 yards and 23 TDs...Led the AFL in passer rating for the second time in three seasons with a 126.4 mark...Placed 3rd in completion percentage (64.7), 4th in TD passes (70), 6th in passing yards (3,346) and total offense (3,359), and 9th in pass completions (249)...Had a passer rating of 130.0 or higher seven times, completed 60 percent or more of his passes 10 times and threw 6 or more TD passes nine times in his 13 starts...Missed the final regular season game after sustaining a fractured clavicle at Arizona when thrown to the turf by Stacy Evans late in the third quarter in the next-to-last game of the year and was placed on IR for the first time in his AFL career on July 18...Had season-highs of 42 pass attempts and 27 completions in season opener (vs Arizona 4/20)...Reached 7,000 career passing yards with 334 (at Tampa Bay 4/27)...Threw his 150th career TD pass and became team's career leader in pass attempts (vs Georgia 5/4)...Had his string of 19 consecutive regular season starts with a completion percentage of at least 60 broken (at Orlando 5/17)...Threw his first INT in 268 attempts and 2 in a game for just the 2nd time in his San Jose career, still threw for 211 yards to reach 8,000 in his career (vs Dallas 5/25)...Threw for a season-high 338 yards (at Buffalo 6/1)...Had the 1,000th pass attempt of his career (at Los Angeles 6/8)...Tied a season-high with 7 TD passes (vs Chicago 6/15)...Reached 9,000 career pass yards with 225 (vs New York 6/22)...Threw 3 TD passes and completed 14-of-19 for 186 yards playing just the 1st half (vs Indiana 7/5)...Threw for 254 yards and 6 TDs, including the 200th of his career, before leaving the game in the third quarter with a fractured clavicle (at Arizona 7/12).

2001: Played in 8 games making 6 starts...Completed 68.6 percent of his passes (157-of-229) for 2,331 yards and 47 TDs with just four INTs...Led the league with a 133.9 passer rating...Had a passer rating of 130.0 or higher in all six starts...Became team's career leader in passing yards and TDs...Twice threw for over 400 yards in a game becoming the 3rd player in league history with multiple 400-yard passing games...Activated from Exempt list on April 23 after missing the first 2 games of the season...Made first start of the season and threw for 430 yards completing a season-high 30 passes, including the final 16 in 4th quarter and OT, with 7 TDs (vs Nashville 6/16)...Became the 3rd player in AFL history with multiple 400-yard passing games when he totaled 418 in an overtime win (vs Florida 6/30)...Threw a season-high 9 TD passes and ran for a team-high 11 yards (at Arizona 7/6)...Threw for 294 yards and 8 TDs on 17-of-22 passing for a passer rating of 158.2 in just 3 quarters (vs Houston 7/21). POSTSEASON: Started both games throwing for 571 yards and 14 TDs with no INTs...Tossed 8 TD passes and 280 yards (vs Arizona 8/4)...Threw for 6 TD passes and 291 yards in a semifinal loss at Nashville (8/11).

2000: Played in all 14 games making 13 starts...Had a passer rating of 125.0 or higher in 11 of 14 games, including the last nine...Completed 71.7 percent of his passes (167-of-233) for 2,258 yards and 47 TDs with just one INT for a passer rating of 140.0 over the last nine regular season games...Completed better than 70 percent of his passes in five of last six games...Threw 62 TD passes and just 3 INTs in 14 games...5th leading rusher on the team with 40 yards on 13 carries and two scores...Did not throw an INT in his last 122 regular season attempts...Twice threw for a season-high 346 yards in a game (at Los Angeles 7/8, vs New England 6/9)...Was named Game MVP five times during the season, including three consecutive games (5/19 at Buffalo; 5/27 vs Los Angeles; 6/1 at Arizona)...Scored two TDs and ran for a career-high 15 yards (at Milwaukee 6/22)...Made his 2nd career start for San Jose in the season opener and completed 14-of-28 for 207 yards and 2 TDs (vs Houston 4/15)...In the only game he did not start he hit 2-of-3 passes for 36 yards and drove team to eventual game-winning TD in relief of John Dutton, who suffered a broken arm in third quarter (at Iowa (5/6)...Threw 5 or more TD passes in a game 9 times, including a season-high 7 (vs Buffalo 7/22). POSTSEASON: Started both games, the first postseason starts of his career...Led San Jose to its first ever playoff win in his 1st career postseason start throwing for 226 yards and 5 TDs with a rush score (vs Oklahoma 8/4)...Completed just 18 of 37 attempts for 160 yards and was intercepted twice in a semifinal playoff loss to Nashville (8/12).

1999: Played in 12 games making one start...Completed 17-of-45 attempts for 135 yards and a pair of TDs on the year...Ran for 14 yards on 3 attempts...Saw action as the team's QB in four games...Served as the holder on FG and PAT attempts...Played his first game as a SaberCat tossing a 17-yard TD pass in his only series (vs Portland 5/8)...Hit 15-of-41 attempts for 124 yards and 2 TDs, including the game-winner with 18 seconds remaining, and rushed for 9 yards leading San Jose to its second-ever win over Arizona, 54-50, in his only start of the year (5/15)...Completed a pass on a fake FG (at Milwaukee 5/24).

1997: Played in 8 games with the Anaheim Piranhas and threw for 1,003 yards and 20 TDs...Completed 55.7 percent of his passes (88 of 158) on the year...Placed 9th in the AFL with a passer rating of 104.0...Set team single-game records for passing yards (361) and TDs (8), and completed 25-of-34 passes (vs Nashville 6/14).

OTHER PRO EXPERIENCE: Signed by the Las Vegas Outlaws (XFL) on Feb. 18, 2001 and played four games making 2 starts...Completed 37-of-78 passes for 408 yards and 3 TDs...Played the 1998 season with the Scottish Claymores of NFL Europe and made two starts completing 38-of-72 passes for 499 yards and 3 TDs...Earned game MVP honors in his first start by hitting 15-of-25 passes for 231 yards and 2 TDs in a win over Barcelona.

COLLEGE: Played three years at UC Davis ending his career ranked in the top 10 in six different offensive categories...A Harlon Hill Award (Div. II MVP) finalist his senior year after throwing for a school record 3,230 yards and 25 TDs...A first-team CoSIDA all-region pick and a Football Gazette honorable mention All-America...One of 26 football players to earn a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.

PERSONAL: Born Mark Richard Grieb on May 23, 1974 in Torrance, Calif....A three sport star at San Jose's Oak Grove High school, he also played basketball and baseball...Majored in Biochemistry at UC Davis...Earned a Master's degree in Education from Stanford and served as a graduate assistant football coach...He met his wife Erin while at Stanford and she is one of his biggest supporters...Erin does research in pediatric infectious diseases at Stanford University and is currently applying to medical school...The couple has identical twin daughters, Ava and Madeleine...His brother Mike, who was an All-Pac 10 tight end at UCLA, works as an equity salesman for Merriman, Curhan and Ford and Co. in San Francisco...Brother Tim, who completed his MBA from the University of Washington, lives in the Pacific Northwest with his family and works for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance...Has two of the best AFL fans in the world in parents Rich and Shelly.