Veteran quarterback Shazzon Mumphrey has signed to play with reigning Serbian champions, SBB Vukovi Belgrade.
The 31 year old Mumphrey spent the 2024 season quarterbacking the Mödling Rangers of the Austrian Football League. He finished as the fifth leading passer in the AFL throwing for 991 yards and nine touchdowns in six games with the Rangers. He also rushed for 179 yards and another three scores.
In 2023, he was behind center for the Prague Lions of the European League of Football where in four games he threw for 593 yards and five touchdowns. It was no surprise that Mumphrey was part of the Lions inaugural season in the ELF. He had spent two excellent seasons leading the Lions from behind center in the Czech League. In 2022, the 6’3″, 220 pound quarterback led them to a Czech Bowl championship and the CEFL Cup championship game. The dual-threat passer threw for 2,062 yards and 30 touchdowns while adding 402 yards and 13 more scores on the ground in 2022.
In 2021, Mumphrey started the season in Poland with the Warsaw Eagles before joining the Lions and leading them to a Czech Bowl appearance. That season, he was named CAAF MVP after totaling 31 touchdowns in just eight games.
Mumphrey spent the 2019 season with the Carlstad Crusaders of the Swedish Superserien and got off to a slow start, but despite splitting duties, finished with 873 yards passing and 12 TDs, helping the team reach the Swedish final. He had signed to play for the Geneva Seahawks in 2020 but the Seahawks opted out of the pandemic delayed and shortened Swiss season.
In 2018, he played for the Hildesheim Invaders of the German Football League where he threw for 1,137 yards and rushed for 365. He graduated from New Haven with a degree in Criminal Justice in 2017 before signing with Denmark’s Triangle Razorbacks midway through the 2017 season, helping the team reach the Danish semifinals.
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Mumphrey was a star at the junior college level breaking records for yards, touchdowns, and completions at Dakota College at Bottineau. Following that season, he spent two years at Florida A&M before transferring to the University of New Haven (NCAA Div. II) where he finished his career playing both quarterback and wide receiver.