David Blough

David Marshall Blough (born July 31, 1995) is an American football coach and former quarterback who is the assistant quarterbacks coach for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL).

Blough was born on July 31, 1995, in Carrollton, Texas.

His mother, LuAnn Blough is a cancer survivor and a graduate of Vanderbilt University.

Blough is the youngest of three brothers; his elder brothers are Matthew and Daniel.

Blough played high school football for Creekview High School in Carrollton, Texas.

As a high-school athlete, he was being recruited by Purdue, Memphis, and New Mexico State after a junior season in which he completed 56 percent of his passes for 1,777 yards and 17 touchdowns against just three interceptions.

He also ran for 244 yards and six scores.

Blough appeared in the 2013 Elite 11, where he had an early lead as the camp's MVP; however, he ended up losing to Sean White.

In May 2013, Blough received a scholarship offer, and verbally committed to play college football at Purdue University following his visit on June 15, 2013.

On December 16, 2013, he signed his National Letter of Intent.

Blough was rated as the seventh-best pocket passer quarterback in the class of 2014, according to ESPN during The Opening rankings, but was later rated as the thirty-fifth best pocket passer.

Other ratings services also had Blough in their class of 2014 rankings: 19 by Rivals.com and 26 by Scout.com following his reclassification.

In January 2014, he enrolled early at Purdue.

He attended Purdue's spring camp in April 2014 under coach Darrell Hazell.

Blough redshirted his entire freshman season for the 2014 Boilermakers as sophomore Danny Etling was named the team's starter.

As a redshirt freshman for the 2015 Boilermakers, Blough began the season as a backup to Austin Appleby.

Blough was the backup on a roster that had just three scholarship quarterbacks, the other being true freshman Elijah Sindelar, who was recovering from a high school knee injury, and who Hazell wanted to redshirt.

Blough made his Purdue debut on September 12, 2015, throwing one incomplete pass in a three-and-out series in the closing minutes of a victory over Indiana State.

Hazell ultimately decided to redshirt Sindelar during the 2015 season, resulting in Blough seeing playing time as Appleby's principal backup.

Blough completed three passes in seven attempts against Virginia Tech on September 19.

On September 22, Blough was named Purdue's starting quarterback, replacing Appleby.

Blough completed 29 of his 39 passing attempts for 340 yards and a pair of touchdowns, but the Boilermakers fell 28–35 to the Bowling Green Falcons.

In his second career start, Blough led the Boilermakers to a near-upset of #2 Michigan State.

Blough had completed 13 of 23 passes with a touchdown and an interception when Purdue received the ball with 2:51 minutes left in the game with Purdue down 3 points.

Blough finished the final drive 2 for 8, including three straight incomplete passes to end Purdue's hopes at an upset.

In his fifth start on October 31 against Nebraska, Blough completed 28 of 43 passes for 274 yards with four touchdown passes and no interceptions while also running for 82 yards and a touchdown to earn Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors.

On November 14, Blough completed 26 of 45 passes for 287 yards with a touchdown and an interceptions as Purdue was narrowly defeated by #24 Northwestern.

Blough started the following game, hoping to lead the Boilermakers to an upset of #6 Iowa, but he was injured during the first quarter of the game.

Two day later it was announced Blough had suffered a concussion and was ruled out against the Indiana.

Blough finished his redshirt freshman season with 169 completions in 293 attempts, eight interceptions, ten touchdown passes, 1,574 passing yards, and a 57% completion percentage.

Purdue's 2016 spring practice featured a quarterback battle between Blough and redshirt freshman Elijah Sindelar.

After spring practice, press reports indicated that Blough was leading the competition.

Blough and Sindelar were the starters in the April 16 spring game.

Blough passed for 226 yards but was intercepted twice as his team was defeated 17–23.

On August 22, 2016, Blough was named the starting quarterback.

In the opening game, Blough led Purdue to a 45–24 victory over Eastern Kentucky.

On Purdue's first drive, Blough found Tario Fuller on a screen pass for a 27-yard gain.

He played college football at Purdue and signed with the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2019.

Following an injury to Matthew Stafford and Jeff Driskel, Blough assumed the starting role for the final five games of the Detroit Lions' 2019 season.

He is married to Colombian-American hurdler Melissa Gonzalez.