Career Summary
- First quarterback in school history to earn All-America honors (2nd Team as a junior).
- Three-time All-Centennial (2nd, 1st, 2nd) - first QB in school history to earn All-Centennial honors three times.
- Was 799-of-1,232 for 10,319 yards with 85 touchdowns against just 16 interceptions.
- Also rushed for 1,050 yards and 20 touchdowns.
- JHU career record-holder for total offense (11,369), touchdown passes (85), 200-yard passing games (34) and 300-yard passing games (13) and tied for first in 400-yard passing gmaes (3).
- Ranks second in school history in attempts (1,232), completions (799) and passing yards (10,319).
- Also holds JHU records for rushing yards (1,050) and touchdowns (20) by a quarterback.
- Holds NCAA Division III records for lowest career interception rate with 1,000 or more attempts (1.3%) and most consecutive 200-yard passing games in one season (14 in 2018).
- Third player in Centennial Conference history with 10,000 passing yards.
- Second player in Centennial history with 10,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing.
- Second player in Centennial history to account for 100 or more touchdowns.
2019
- Second Team D3football.com All-South
- Second Team All-Centennial Conference
- Started all 11 games and was 254-of-397 for 3,193 yards with 25 touchdowns against five interceptions.
- Rushed for team bests of 397 yards and seven touchdowns.
- Had the two longest rushing players of the season for JHU (48 yards vs. F&M, 69 yards vs. Gettysburg).
- Threw for at least 200 yards in each of the last 10 games of the season and had five games with 300+ yards.
- Two or more TD passes in nine of 11 games and three TD tosses in five games.
- Closed season with a three-game run that saw him go 70-of-96 (.729) for 816 yards with nine TDs against no interceptions. Also rushed for three scores in that span.
- Has a streak of 195 consecutive passes without an INT early in the season and closed season with 116 straight attempts without an INT.
- Was 22-of-33 for 282 yards and three TDs and rushed for a career-high 101 yards on 11 carries in a 51-28 win over Stevenson in the Centennial-MAC Bowl Game to claim game MVP honors.
2018
- Second Team CoSIDA/Google Cloud Academic All-American.
- First Team CoSIDA/Google Cloud Academic All-District.
- Second Team D3football.com All-American.
- One of just four Division III players in the nation to earn CoSIDA Academic All-America and D3football.com All-America honors.
- First Team D3football.com All-South.
- Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Year.
- First Team All-Centennial Conference.
- Started all 14 games and was 303-of-451 for 4,111 yards with 35 touchdown passes against just seven interceptions.
- Set school records for passing yards, attempts, completions, total offense (4,505 yards), overall touchdowns (42).
- 35 touchdown passes tied the school single-season record.
- Rushed for 394 yards and seven TDs.
- Only Division III quarterback to throw for more than 4,000 yards.
- 4,111 yards are the ninth-highest single-season total in Division III history.
- Threw for 200 or more yards in all 14 games (school record) and 300 or more in four games.
- Has 12 games with 2+ touchdown passes and seven games with 3+.
- Had a season-high four TD passes in wins against Randolph-Macon, Moravian and Juniata.
- Was 91-of-132 (.689) for 1,102 yards and seven touchdowns and rushed for 179 yards and three more TDs in JHU's four NCAA Playoff games.
2017
- Played in 10 games.
- Threw for 3,010 yards and 25 touchdowns, which are both the third most in a single season in school history.Â
- Rushed for 260 yards and six touchdowns.
- Set school records for completions (42) and attempts (61) in a 32-29 overtime win at Washington & Lee in the season opener.
- Threw for 426 yards in season opener at W&L - the most ever in an opener by a JHU quarterback and the sixth-highest total overall.Â
- Second Team All-Centennial Conference.
- Centennial Conference Offensive Player of the Week (9-10).Â
2016
- Played in four games as a reserve quarterback.
- Made first career appearance in a 52-17 win over Juniata.
At Chantilly
- Played football and basketball and selected as a team captain for both.
- Two-time all-conference pick in football.
- Accounted for 3,100 yards of total offense and 35 touchdowns as a senior.
- Also grabbed all-region and all-metro honors as a senior.
- All-conference selection in basketball and led the conference in three-pointers.
Personal
- David Tammaro.
- The son of Chris and Denise Tammaro.
- Has one younger brother, Jon.
- Cousin, Tyler Simmons, played football at Navy and led the team in tackles as a senior in 2010 (131).
- Another cousin, Zach Simmons, played basketball at Wichita State.
- Worked as a Venture Capital Analyst at Greenspring Associates (summer 2019).
- Vice President of the Johns Hopkins Financial Analysts Club.
- Has twice served as a research analyst at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics.
- Majoring in applied mathematics and statistics and economics.