Dan Orlovsky is a quarterback for the Houston Texans of the National Football League.

Selected by the Detroit Lions in the fifth round of the 2005 draft (145th overall)…Re-signed by Lions on April 22, 2008…Signed by the Houston Texans on March 1, 2009.

PRO:
Talented young quarterback who joined the Texans as a free agent early in the 2009 offseason…will once again join fellow QB Matt Schaub in the Texans backfield…has played in 12 career games with seven starts…has completed 150-of-272 career pass attempts for 1,679 yards with eight touchdowns and eight interceptions.

2009 (Houston 0/0): Was the team’s third quarterback in all 16 games.

2008 (Detroit 10/7):
Saw action in 10 games with seven starts and threw for a career-high 1,616 yards with eight touchdowns and eight interceptions for a passer rating of 72.6…played the second half vs. Chicago (10/5) and completed 13-of-23 passes for 97 yards and an interception…made first start of professional career at Minnesota (10/12) and completed 12-of-21 passes for 150 yards and one touchdown…started and completed 12-of-25 passes for 265 yards and a touchdown at Houston (10/19)…connected with Calvin Johnson on a 96-yard pass, the fourth-longest pass play in Lions’ history…started and completed 21 passes of 35 attempts for 223 yards and a touchdown vs. Washington (10/26)…started and surpassed previous career high with 47 pass attempts, 28 completions and two touchdowns for 292 yards at Chicago (11/2)…re-entered starting line-up at Indianapolis (12/14) and completed 23-of-34 passes for 233 yards and a touchdown…started and went 10-of-23 for 125 yards and two interceptions vs. New Orleans (12/21)…started at Green Bay (12/28) and completed 22-of-42 passes for 225 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.

2005 (Detroit 2/0):
Saw action in two games as a rookie…completed seven-of 17 pass attempts for 63 yards with a long completion of 20 yards…made his NFL debut at Chicago (9/18) and completed two-of-six passes for 20 yards…saw action vs