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<a href="/biography/danny-kanell">Football quarterback</a> <a href="/biography/danny-kanell">Daniel Kanell</a> is a former NFL and AFL <a href="/biography/danny-kanell">player</a>, as well as a former ESPN broadcaster. He played in the National Football League (NFL) and the Arena Football League (AFL). On the side, he worked for ESPN as an analyst and host for the Russillo and Kanell radio show. On ESPNU's late-night sports and humor show UNITE, he served as the host until June of that year.

<h2>Career</h2>

He played as a quarterback for four years at Florida State University. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ward">Charlie Ward</a>, an American professional NBA <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ward">basketball player</a>, was backed up by Danny Kanellwhen he started playing. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ward">Ward</a> was the next <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ward">freshman</a> in the team after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Ferguson">Chip Ferguson</a> in 1985. He had to face some stiff competition during this time, but his back-to-back commendable performances when he played as a backup got him the job once again as a sophomore.

He tossed for 2,781 yards in his lesser year with 17 TD versus 13 INT on 380 pass endeavors. He was a part of the celebrated Choke at Doak amusement against Florida, where he drove Florida State once again from a 31-3 final quarter deficiency to tie the diversion. He then beat Florida in the rematch at the Sugar Bowl named the "Fifth Quarter in the French Quarter", completing the year with a 10–1–1 record.

In his senior year (1995), he tossed for 2,957 yards with 32 TD versus 13 INT on 402 pass endeavors. He drove the group to a 10–2 record, including a win over Notre Dame in the 1996 Orange Bowl. He was given an "honorable mention" in the All-American rundown of his senior year.

During his career at the college, he played in 35 games and finished 62.7% of his 854 pass endeavors. He tossed for 8,372 yards, 47 touchdowns, which was at the time a school record, and 26 capture attempts over his four years as a Seminole. He likewise kept running for one touchdown and figured out how to catch one go for lost three yards. In September 2012, Kanell was enlisted into the Florida State Athletic Hall of Fame.

Later, his main competitor became another sophomore, Jon Stark, and the team usually chose between Starkand Kanell alternately. He got lucky during a match against Maryland, which brought him a lot of recognition. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ward">Ward</a> was injured due to bruised ribs, so Kanell was chosen from the start of the game. He utilized the golden opportunity fully and completed 28 out of 38 passes, for 341 yards, with no interceptions and five touchdowns. That year turned out to be great for Kanell; he completed seven touchdowns with no interceptions and a total of 499 yards while also doing a great job backing up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Ward">Ward</a>, who won four trophies that year - Heisman Trophy, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davey_O'Brien">Davey O'Brien</a>, Maxwell, and Walter Camp Awards.

New York Giants took Kanell in 1996. His debut in NFC came in that season as well. He had some great performances in the NFC playing for the Giants. Despite all these performances, he was only making $216,000, which was the league's minimum salary. So next season, he got into a three-year contract with the Giants worth $9.5 million. His performance declined gradually over the years, however. As a result, Giants replaced him with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Collins">Kerry Collins</a>.

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In the offseason, Kanell found a home with the Atlanta Falcons as a reinforcement to their oft harmed beginning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Chandler_(American_football)">quarterback</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Chandler_(American_football)">Chris Chandler</a>. He played in Atlanta for a long time, beginning two amusements and playing in eight. As a Falcon, he finished 99 of 200 endeavored goes for 1,117 yards, six touchdowns and nine capture attempts. Toward the end of the 2000 season, he was cut by the Falcons and didn't figure out how to sign with another group.

After a year, Kanell marked with the New York Dragons of the Arena Football League for the 2002 season, showing up in four recreations in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Garcia_(American_football)">Aaron Garcia</a>'s nonappearance. He was marked amid preparing camp by the Denver Broncos after that. He made the program the third-string quarterback in Denver yet was given up without further ado through the season. Seven recreations into the season, beginning <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Plummer">quarterback</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Plummer">Jake Plummer</a> and reinforcement <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Beuerlein">quarterback</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Beuerlein">Steve Beuerlein</a> endured individually with foot and hand wounds. Kanell was reviewed by the Broncos and began two diversions until <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Beuerlein">Beuerlein</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Plummer">Plummer</a> returned. He tossed two touchdowns and five interferences on 103 pass endeavors. Kanell stayed with the Broncos for one more year as the reinforcement to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Plummer">Plummer</a>. He never played, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Plummer">Plummer</a> turned into the primary Broncos quarterback to take each hostile snap-in establishment history. After the 2004 season, he was cut by the Broncos and was not grabbed by another NFL group.

Kanell was drafted out of secondary school by the Milwaukee Brewers, and after his lesser year at Florida State, by the New York Yankees in the 24th round. Be that as it may, he considered football more imperative and marked with the Giants.

Amid a cutback from football in 2001, Kanell came back to baseball, playing in the small-time for the Atlantic League's Newark Bears. He played at a respectable starting point, third base and assigned hitter. Kanell said he needed to play for the Yankees in the long run as he grew up revering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Mattingly">Don Mattingly</a>.

He is pretty active on various social networking sites like Twitter and has a huge fan following there. He has a lovely wife as well, Courtenay Kanell. Recently, he and his wife sold their home at Ford Lauderdale for a hefty $1.2 million, which increased his net worth significantly. He also played baseball in high school and a few minor leagues.

At present, he is working for ESPN. He hosted ESPNU's 'UNITE' earlier and made a few guest appearances for 'SVP & Russillo'. He also made a few guest appearances at 'The Russillo', when rumors spread that he would probably take over as its full-time host. He is now the <a href="/biography/danny-kanell">host</a> of the new show 'Russillo and Kanell'.

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