"John Stocco" is a former collegiate American football quarterback. Stocco played football for the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Starting lineup/starting at quarterback for the Wisconsin Badgers/Badgers during his sophomore, junior and senior seasons. He was undrafted/not drafted in the 2007 NFL Draft.

Stocco is now a teacher at Chicago Bulls College Prep located in Chicago, Illinois, which is a part of the Noble Network of Charter Schools.

In high school, Stocco was teammates with Marcus Fitzgerald, the brother of Larry Fitzgerald, at the Academy of Holy Angels in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Out of high school, he was drafted in the 45th round by the Major League Baseball team the Minnesota Twins, but decided to go to school instead. "Had I been drafted higher, it might have been a tougher decision," he said in a 2003 ESPN online chat session. He was recruited by other Big Ten Conference/Big Ten teams such as Michigan Wolverines/Michigan, Minnesota Golden Gophers/Minnesota, Illinois Fighting Illini/Illinois, Iowa Hawkeyes/Iowa, Purdue Boilermakers/Purdue, Penn State Nittany Lions/Penn State, Ohio State Buckeyes/Ohio State, Northwestern Wildcats/Northwestern, and Michigan State Spartans/Michigan State. Stocco eventually settled on Wisconsin.

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He got the guys in and out (of the huddle). He kept the offense moving down the field. I thought he did a really good job for us today.

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I thought he did a great job.

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It's all about developing that trust, so I know that I can take my drop and pitch it and they're coming out of their break and going to get it. It's like anything else, it's getting reps and reps and doing it over and over until it gets...

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Sometimes down in the red zone, he is the guy that I am going to look to because he can make some big plays for us, ... And he just did a great job of getting open and catching the ball when he has the opportunity to.

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Obviously, I like having O.D. out there, ... He's a heck of a player for us. A couple of those routes we knew were going to be good in the red zone.

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All I know is our competition is going to get better in a hurry.

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The biggest thing is trusting your receivers.

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That's a play that ... we haven't really run that much. I thought they'd all be dropping deep and there'd be a big hole over the middle. He made a nice play on it. I tried to keep it low, a safe throw, but he made a play on it.

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That's the lesson in football and in life and everything you do. You can't give up.

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