2023 Football Roster

12 Nolan Grooms

  • Height 6-2
  • Weight 194
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Lake Wylie, S.C.
  • Highschool Taft School

Biography

Career: Two-time winner of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup as the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year... Just the sixth ever student-athlete to win the prestigious honor twice... Just the second Bulldog to win the award twice, joining John Pagliaro, who won in 1976 and 1977... Two-time first team All-Ivy quarterback...Second all-time at Yale in touchdown passes (52), second in total offense (6,929), fifth in career passing yards (5,136) and sixth in career completions (407).

2023: Winner of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup as the Ivy League's Offensive Player of the Year... First team All-Ivy quarterback... Led the league with 22 passing touchdowns, which tied for the second most in a season in school history... Accumulated 2,451 yards of total offense with 1,863 through the air and 588 on the ground in leading the Bulldogs to a second straight Ivy title... Had six games which he had a rush of at least 20 yards and pass of 30 yards... Threw for a career-high 363 yards and four touchdowns in win over Morgan State... Rushed for a season-high 102 yards in victory at Brown.

2022: Winner of the Asa S. Bushnell Cup as the Ivy League's Offensive Player of the Year... 12th Bulldog to win the coveted award...  First team All-Ivy quarterback... Excelled both with his legs and his arm, finishing second in the league in rushing with 726 yards while also throwing for 1,660 yards... Accounted for 20 total touchdowns with 14 through the air and six by way of the ground... Top rushing performance came against Princeton when he carried 20 times for 152 yards... Top passing game came against Columbia when he threw for 346 yards and four touchdowns.

2021:  Appeared in all 10 games and started the last five....Led the Bulldogs with 1,569 passing yards and 14 touchdown passes...Earned Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week on Nov. 8 after tossing a career-high 330 yards passing and three touchdowns in a victory at Brown...Named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 25 after making his first career start and went 18-of-27 in the air with 283 yards passing and two touchdowns while also leading the Bulldogs with 113 rushing yards and two scores...Totaled 313 total yards, threw for three scores and posted a game-high 262 yards passing against Harvard on Nov. 20 in the 137th edition of the The Game. 

2020: No season due to COVID-19.

2019: Served as third-string quarterback and appeared in special packages ... played in all 10 games on special teams … registered five completions, for 44 yards and two touchdowns.

At Taft School: Four-year starter at quarterback...All-Erickson League at QB three years...All-New England Honoree...Erickson League Offensive Player of the Year...New England Scholar-Athlete Award...National Football Foundation C. Edwin Creed Award...Taft School Male Athlete of the Year...Three-time All-Founders League in baseball...11 varsity letters....Career stats: 7,4 00 passing yards, 65 passing TDs, .2,314 rushing yards, 31 rushing TDs...NEPSAC Champions…Todd Marble Bowl...Founders League Champion (Baseball)

Personal: Son of Sharon and James Grooms…Brother to Ally and Charlotte Grace...Interested in Economics and Politics

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Historical Player Information

  • 12

    2019First Year

    QB
    6'2" 185 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2021Sophomore

    QB
    6'2" 188 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2022Sophomore

    QB
    6'2" 188 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2022-23Junior

    QB
    6'2" 188 lbs
    12
  • 12

    2023Senior

    QB
    6'2" 194 lbs
    12