1. Early years

2. College career

3. Professional career
    Oakland Raiders  Toronto Argonauts  BC Lions  Saskatchewan Roughriders 

4. References

5. External links

• Glenn Davis Award (2009)
• WAC Freshman of the Year (2011)
• Grey Cup champion (2017)

• Oakland Raiders ({{NFL Year|2015}})
• Toronto Argonauts ({{CFL Year|2015}}–{{CFL Year|2017}})
• BC Lions ({{CFL Year|2018}})
• Saskatchewan Roughriders ({{CFL Year|2019}}–present)

Cody Michael Fajardo (born March 29, 1992) is an American professional Canadian football quarterback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at the University of Nevada, Reno and was the Wolf Pack's starting quarterback from 2011 to 2014. He won the Glenn Davis Award in 2009 as the best high school football player in California. Cody is of Spanish American descent. Cody accounted for 13,000+ yards and 101 touchdowns in his career at Nevada. He ran his first professional touchdown on 7/13/16 and threw his first professional touchdown on 7/25/16 both for the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL.

Early years

Fajardo (also referred to as "The Codster") played high school football for Servite High School in Anaheim, California.^[1][2] As a senior, he led Servite to a state championship and a No. 3 ranking in the national polling.^[3] He won the Glenn Davis Award in 2009 as the best high school football player in California.^[4]

Fajardo's father played college football for the Texas Tech Red Raiders, and his grandfather played for the Colorado Buffaloes.^[3]

College career

Fajardo committed to the University of Nevada, Reno in late January 2010.^[5] He was redshirted during the 2010 season as Colin Kaepernick completed a four-year run as the starting quarterback for the Nevada Wolfpack football team.

As a redshirt freshman, Fajardo became the starting quarterback for 2011 Nevada Wolf Pack football team.^[6] Playing against Texas Tech in the third game of the 2011 season, Fajardo rushed for 139 yards and two touchdowns on 10 carries and completed four of six passes for 59 yards and a touchdown. On October 15, 2011, he led the Wolfpack to a 49–7 win over New Mexico, running for two touchdowns and completing 20 of 25 passes for 203 yards.^[7][8][9] He finished 2011 with 1,707 passing yards, 6 passing touchdowns and 694 rushing yards and 11 rushing touchdowns.

Fajardo had 2,786 passing yards, 20 passing touchdowns, 1,121 rushing yards, and 12 rushing touchdowns. In 2013, he passed 2,668 yards, 13 passing touchdowns, 621 rushing yards and eight touchdowns. As a senior in 2014, he passed for 2,498 yards, 18 passing touchdowns and rushed for 1,046 yards and 13 touchdowns.

Fajardo is one of only two players in NCAA history with 9,000 yards passing and 3,000 yards rushing. The other being Colin Kaepernick. Both are Nevada Alums. Fajardo also accounted for 101 touchdowns in his career at Nevada.

Professional career

Oakland Raiders

After going undrafted in the 2015 NFL Draft, Fajardo signed with the Oakland Raiders on May 8, 2015.^[10] On September 1, 2015, he was waived by the Raiders.^[11]

Toronto Argonauts

On October 8, 2015, Fajardo was signed to the practice roster of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League.^[12][13][13] He Resigned with the Argonauts on May 17, 2016.^[14] Fajardo would see his role expand during 2017 into a change-of-pace backup while starter Ricky Ray sat out with injury, but remained the short yardage quarterback when Ray returned. He scored the game-winning touchdown with 23 seconds remaining in the 2017 East Final in short-yardage, on a 1-yard plunge, sending the Argonauts to the 105th Grey Cup game.^[15] The Argos would go on to win the championship game over the Calgary Stampeders. Although Fajardo showed considerable promise and poise when he played, the Argonauts were unable to sign him to a contract extension with the acquisition of James Franklin from the Edmonton Eskimos.

BC Lions

After failing to sign with the Argonauts and entering Free Agency, Fajardo signed with the BC Lions on February 16, 2018.^[16] Fajardo continued his role as a short down rusher and change of pace quarterback behind Travis Lulay and Jonathan Jennings, registering 14 completions on 20 attempts for 153 yards, one touchdown and one interception, as well as 42 rushes for 108 yards and 5 more scores.

Saskatchewan Roughriders

On the third day of free agency, Fajardo signed with the Saskatchewan Roughriders on a one year contract,^[17] joining a quarterback room featuring Zach Collaros and David Watford.

References

External links

• Nevada Wolf Pack bio
• Toronto Argonauts bio{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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