Brady Quinn is an American football quarterback for Cleveland Browns of the National Football League, and currently the starting quarterback. Quinn attended Dublin Coffman High School in Dublin, Ohio, and ranked sixth on the Detroit Free Press "Best of the Midwest" team and was listed at number 20 on ESPN's list of the nation's top 100 players as a preparatory student.

In 2002, Quinn helped his team post an 8-3 record and played in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas. Brady was named the Columbus Dispatch and Ohio Capital Conference Offensive Player of the Year and was an All-State choice. He was also named an All-Conference player in baseball as a junior and lettered three times. He was a member of Young Life, the Rock Solid Club and Who's Who Among America High School Students.

Later on, Quinn attended the University of Notre Dame, where he shattered 36 Fighting Irish records during his four seasons with the team. There were ten career records, twelve single-season records, four single-game records and ten miscellaneous records broken by Brady throughout those four years, including the record for career pass attempts with 1,602, completions with 929, yards-per-game with 239.6, touchdown passes with 95, and the Irish's lowest interception percentage with 2.43. Quinn also won 29 games as a starter at Notre Dame, which is tied for the most in school history. He also ranks in the top ten in NCAA Division I history in career pass attempts (ranked seventh), passing yards (ranked tenth) and touchdown passes (ranked ninth).

In 2005, under the supervision of Notre Dame's new head coach Charlie Weis, formerly of the New England Patriots, Brady blossomed as a starting quarterback. He averaged 110 more passing yards per game than he had as a sophomore while nearly doubling his number of touchdown passes, throwing 32 in 2005 compared to 17 in 2004. Quinn was named to the 2005 AP All-America Team as a third-team quarterback and the 2006 SI.com All-American Team as a second-team quarterback. He also received the Sammy Baugh Trophy as the nation's top passer of the 2005 season.

Following the 2006 season, Quinn won several awards, including the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award for the best college quarterback in the nation and the Maxwell Award for the best college football player. Brady finished third in the Heisman Trophy balloting behind Troy Smith and Darren McFadden. He was also named the Cingular All-America Player of the Year and was named to the 2006 AP All-America Team as a second-team quarterback.

Coming into the draft, Quinn was considered to be one of the top players in the country and was invited to attend the draft in person. Before the draft started, Quinn was labeled as a "franchise quarterback in the mold of Carson Palmer." He was projected to be picked in the top ten and even could have been the number one overall pick.

After an initial holdout, Quinn signed a five-year deal with the Browns worth a reported $20.2 million, with $7.5 million guaranteed. He could make up to $30 million with incentives. Quinn's 10-day absence from training camp had all but ensured he would not win the Browns' starting job. Quinn's first NFL action came in week 17 of the 2007 season. He was 3-of-8 for 45 yards in his one series.

On September 11, 2007 starting quarterback Charlie Frye was traded to the Seattle Seahawks for a sixth round draft pick, moving Quinn to second on the Brown's depth chart behind Derek Anderson. On December 30, 2007, when Anderson hurt his pinky and wrist, Quinn made his debut in the Browns' final game of the season against the San Francisco 49ers. Although there was speculation that the Browns would trade Anderson to get back into the first round of the 2008 NFL Draft, Browns' general manager, Phil Savage, later stated that he hoped to sign Anderson, and keep both quarterbacks for the 2008 season. Quinn replaced Derek Anderson as the starter for the Browns' November 6, 2008 game against the Denver Broncos.