General: Played in 10 career games, starting three ... Completed 92-of-151 passes for a career 60.9 percent completion percentage ... Holds school record for completion percentage in a game, set against Penn State in 2002 with a 29-of-42 performance (69.0 percent) ... Announced in January (2003) he was transferring to North Dakota State.

2002: Academic All-Big Ten selection ... Earned first start at Air Force where he completed 5-of-10 passes for 22 yards ... Made second start at Penn State and completed 29-of-42 passes (a school-record 69.0 percent) for 193 yards and one interception ... Went 18-of-34 for 150 yards, one TD and one interception vs. Purdue ... Came off the bench against TCU and finished 8-of-12 for 50 yards ... Saw some reserve duty at Michigan State and completed 4-of-7 passes for 87 yards and a TD ... The TD was a 48-yard pass to Eric Worley, the team's longest completion of the year ... Came off bench and went 5-of-8 for 33 yards at Iowa ... Led team in completion percentage with a .611 mark.

2001: Appeared in four games, all in a reserve quarterback role ... Turned in his better performances in last two games: 8-of-13 for 55 yards and 27 rushing yards at Indiana and 11-of-14 for 50 yards, 1 TD and 15 rushing yards vs. Iowa ... His TD pass against Iowa, a 2-yarder to tight end Trai Essex, was the first of his career ... Debuted against Duke and completed 2-of-6 passes for 17 yards and one interception ... Also went 2-of-5 for 14 yards and added 16 rushing yards at Ohio State.

2000: Redshirted.

High School: Considered by many the top quarterback in the Midwest in 1999-00 … Chris Pool’s Pigskin Recruiting Service First-Team All-Midwest … Top-rated quarterback in Midwest and Midwest Super 30 by PrepStar … SuperPrep All-American … USA Today honorable mention All-American … Rated 28th nationally by Rivals100.com … National Blue Chip All-American … Prep Football Report Top 100 and All-American … Unanimous first-team all-state pick by Associated Press, Wisconsin Football Coaches Association and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel … Southeast Conference and Racine County Player of the Year … Senior year numbers: 303-for-505 passing for 3,181 yards in 11 games (289.2 ypg), 29 TDs, 13 INTs … Three-time all-conference and all-county … Also lettered in baseball, basketball and golf … National Honor Society … National French Honor Society … Ranked third in a class of 500 (4.6 GPA out of a 4.0 scale) … High school coach was George Machado.

Personal: Born Anthony Thomas Stauss on 10/2/81 … Son of Thomas and Kimberly Stauss … Father was captain and MVP of 1979 University of Wisconsin football team … Economics major.

Stauss's Career Statistics

Passing
Year          GP     ATT     COM     INT     PCT     YDS     TD     LNG     RATING
2001          4      38      23      1       60.5    136     1      14      94.0
2002          6      113     69      3       61.1    535     2      48      101.4
TOTALS        10     151     92      4       60.9    671     3      48      99.5
 
Rushing
Year          GP     ATT     YDS     AVG     TD      LNG
2001          4      18      58      3.2     0       11
2002          6      24      -51     -2.1    0       9
TOTALS        10     42      7       0.2     0       11