Playing Career
Sauter played for University of Minnesota from 1994-97. Sauter finished his career as a four-time Academic All-Big Ten award winner and two-time GTE Academic All-America District V selection. He was a three-year letter winner and started the final 34 games of his collegiate career and played in the Blue-Gray All-Star Football Classic following his senior season. He still holds the all-time career school records with 539 pass completions, 945 pass attempts and 6,834 passing yards. His 40 career touchdown passes and .570 completion percentage also rank second all-time.
Sauter was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Arizona Cardinals in 1998. He spent part of the season on the practice squad. The 1999 and 2000 seasons were spent with the Detroit Lions as the third quarterback. He also spent the spring of 2000 with the Barcelona Dragons in NFL Europe. In 2001 he was on the Indianapolis Colts practice squad. He split the 2002 season as the Colts third quarterback and with the Chicago Bears. He was back with the Colts for the 2003 season.
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