McLeod Bethel-Thompson

McLeod John Baltazar Bethel-Thompson (born August 3, 1988) is an American football quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He signed with the San Francisco 49ers as an undrafted free agent in 2011.

High School
Bethel-Thompson graduated from San Francisco's Balboa High School in 2006, where he played football, basketball, and baseball. He was the City's Football Player of the Year in 2006 and its Back of the Year in 2005. In 2004 and 2005, he led his team to the Turkey Bowl, the City's annual championship, held on Thanksgiving Day.

College career
After a redshirt year at UCLA in 2006, Bethel-Thompson shared the Bruins' quarterback duties in 2007. He started in the Las Vegas Bowl against BYU.

Bethel-Thompson played at Sacramento State University for the remainder of his collegiate career.

San Jose SaberCats
After going undrafted in 2010

San Francisco 49ers
Bethel-Thompson played for the San Francisco 49ers for a short time, and was expected to be the third string QB for the 49ers after Josh McCown was cut, but was later cut himself.

Sacramento Mountain Lions
On September 3, 2011, Bethel-Thompson signed with the Sacramento Mountain Lions. Bethel-Thompson competed with Jordan Palmer, former Fresno State quarterback Ryan Colburn, and Trevor Harris for the starting job. Bethel-Thompson ended up starting the last two games at quarterback over Colburn (Palmer was released and Harris signed with the Orlando Predators).

Miami Dolphins
Later in 2011, Bethel-Thompson signed to the Miami Dolphins practice squad.

Minnesota Vikings
Bethel-Thompson signed a future contract with the Minnesota Vikings on January 13, 2012. He was named to the 53-man active roster just before the start of the 2012 regular season after beating out veteran Sage Rosenfels for the third-string quarterback job.