D'Vontrey D'Wayne Richardson is an American former professional baseball and college football player.
Richardson attended Lee County High School in Leesburg, Georgia, where he excelled in football and baseball.
He was the Class 4A Offensive Player of the Year and an All-State first team selection by the Georgia Sports Writers Association.
After being recruited by Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma, Richardson verbally committed to continue his two-sport career at Florida State University in August 2005[3] and signed a National Letter of Intent to FSU in February 2006.
[7] Richardson redshirted in football his true freshman season at Florida State in 2006.
In 2008, quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator Jimbo Fisher chose Ponder to be the starting quarterback over 2007's starter and 5th-year senior Weatherford and redshirt sophomore Richardson, who Seminoles head coach Bobby Bowden said made "wonderful progress" during the off-season.
During the season opener against Western Carolina, Richardson would see his first significant playing time.
At the start of the second drive of the second half (and with Florida State winning 35–0), Richardson came into the game as quarterback.
[15] As a sophomore, Richardson had to sit out the 2008 baseball season due to academic issues.
[17] After the season, Richardson was selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 5th round with the 166th pick of the 2009 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.