Professional Career: Asad enters his second season with the Rush after spending his rookie season as Chicago’s third-string quarterback ... he signed a three-year contract as a free agent November 1, 2004.

 

2005 SEASON: Asad was active for two games during his rookie season – March 6 vs. Nashville and March 13 at Grand Rapids – but did not seen any action. 

  

COLLEGE CAREER: Asad was a four-year letterman (2000-2003) and two-time team captain (2002-2003) at the University of Minnesota ... completed 481-of-847 career passes for 6,660 yards and 55 touchdowns in 46 games ... also rushed for 1,158 yards and 16 touchdowns in his career.

·   holds University of Minnesota records for most career touchdown passes (55), total offense (7,818 yards) and career touchdown-to-interception ratio (2.1-1) ... ranks second on the Golden Gophers career list for passing yards (6,600) and completions (481).

·   only quarterback in school history with three seasons of 12 or more touchdown passes.

·   named to the honorable mention all-Big Ten squad and team MVP as a senior (2003) when his 63.2 completion percentage set a school single-season record.

·   threw 19 touchdown passes in 2002, one shy of Mike Hohensee’s school record for touchdown passes in a season ... tied Hohensee’s record of 10 straight games with at least one TD pass.

                                                      

Personal: Asad Tajmmal Abdul-Khaliq was born August 4, 1980, in Elizabeth, NJ ... Asad is married and lives in Elizabeth during the off-season ... children: Saif.

·   is a 1998 graduate of Elizabeth High School in Elizabeth, NJ, where he played football and basketball.

ü       was a PrepStar all-America choice as a senior in 1997 when he completed 116-of-173 passes for 1,679 yards and 20 touchdowns while throwing only 2 interceptions.

ü       selected first team all-county and third team all-state in both 1996 and 1997.

·   attended Fork Union Military Academy in Fork Union, VA, after graduation from high school.

ü       threw 18 touchdown passes and just 3 interceptions in 7 games during the 1998 season, helping lead Fork Union to the 1998 state football title. 

ü       broke Vinny Testaverde’s school record for best touchdown-to-interception ratio.

·   received a bachelor’s degree in educational psychology with a minor in youth studies from the University of Minnesota in 2004.

·   his cousin, Todd Bowles, is the defensive backs coach for the Dallas Cowboys.