Jadrian Clark (born April 22, 1994) is an American football quarterback for the Nordic Storm of the European League of Football (ELF). In 2023, he won both the ELF Most Valuable Player award and the championship.
Career
Clark played for the Weber State Wildcats, later in the German teams of the Kirchdorf Wildcats (whom he helped gain promotion to the GFL), the New Yorker Lions (with whom he won a BIG6 European Football League) and the Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns (reached the German Bowl, lost to the Lions) and the Austrian Vienna Vikings (after the cancellation of the 2020 German championship; with them he won the Austrian championship), and later in the German professional team the Hamburg Sea Devils.
From 2022, he played for the Rhein Fire and replaced the injured Matt Adam.[1] In the 2023 season, he played again for the Rhein Fire,[2] and was named ELF Most Valuable Player at the end of the season.[3] After the season, he studied at the University of the West of England in Bristol. He played for the local university team and became undefeated champions of the university league, being declared MVP of the final.[4] Rhein Fire had previously signed him for the 2024 season.
In November 2024, he was signed by the newly founded Nordic Storm for the 2025 season.[5]
Season statistics
| Year | Team | Games | Passing game | Running game | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cmp | Att | Qte | Yds | Avg | TD | Int | Eff | Att | Yds | Avg | TD | Fum | Lst | |||
| German Football League / German Football League 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Kirchdorf Wildcats | 13 | 255 | 403 | 63.3 | 3,578 | 8.9 | 51 | 10 | 121.1 | 88 | 151 | 1.7 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | New Yorker Lions | 16 | 270 | 440 | 61.4 | 3,627 | 8.4 | 45 | 11 | 111.2 | 112 | 428 | 3.8 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns | 17 | 244 | 379 | 64.4 | 4,009 | 10.5 | 51 | 10 | 128.4 | 111 | 455 | 4.1 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| GFL Total | 46 | 769 | 1,222 | 62.9 | 11,214 | 9.2 | 147 | 31 | 121.8 | 311 | 1,034 | 3.3 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |
| Source: http://stats.gfl.info/ | ||||||||||||||||
European League of Football 
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| 2021 | Hamburg Sea Devils | 9 | 129 | 217 | 59.5 | 1,383 | 6.8 | 15 | 10 | 82.0 | 47 | 201 | 4.3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | Rhein Fire | 6 | 125 | 194 | 64.4 | 2,118 | 10.9 | 23 | 5 | 130.0 | 22 | 117 | 5.3 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | Rhein Fire | 12 | 237 | 361 | 65.7 | 3,586 | 9.9 | 53 | 7 | 129.7 | 17 | 37 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | Rhein Fire | 12 | 171 | 252 | 67.9 | 2,215 | 8.8 | 27 | 8 | 117.7 | 14 | 64 | 4.6 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| ELF Total | 39 | 663 | 1,024 | 64.7 | 9,302 | 9.1 | 118 | 30 | 120.0 | 100 | 419 | 4.2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | |
| Source: sportsmetrics.football | ||||||||||||||||
References
- ^ "Jadrian Clark". European League of Football. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
- ^ "QB Jadrian Clark returns to Rhein Fire" (in German). Retrieved 2022-11-10.
- ^ "Jadrian Clark is MVP of the European League of Football" (in German). 2023-09-23. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ^ "Great Britain: University of West England Bullets complete three-peat in dominating win over Durham Saints". 2024-03-20. Retrieved 2024-03-21.
- ^ Malchow, Alex (November 7, 2024). "Big bang: Nordic Storm sign MVP's Jadrian Clark and Glen Toonga". European League of Football. Retrieved February 5, 2025.