- Meets with the coaching staff on Thursdays to script the first 12 plays of an upcoming game. Leak first meets with his teammates to get their thoughts on what the 12 plays should be prior to meeting with the coaches.
- His favorite college class at UF has been interpersonal communication.
- During the summer of 2006, Leak visited the Manning family's passing academy.
- According to former UF Offensive Coordinator Larry Fedora, Leak was the one who went over and got the water bottles filled and brought them to practice for the receivers, running backs and quarterbacks during voluntary conditioning in the summer of 2004.
- As a freshman, roomed with Skyler Thornton and Andre Caldwell and the three would practice plays in their apartment lining up different plays in their living room.
- Has been watching film since his youth football days back in Charlotte, N.C., when he, his dad Curtis and older brother C.J. would sit down together and watch for hours at a time.
- In his freshman year of high school, he beat out a veteran player for the quarterback job.
- He spent most of his savings on spring break his senior year of high school. Not for a trip to Cancun, or Key West, or even Panama City Beach. But to Gainesville, of all places, to study a Florida football playbook and game tapes.
- Chris has two passions - football and video games. Enjoys any 2004 NCAA football video games because he can play his brother, a former quarterback at Tennessee, and says he almost always wins.
- 4.0 in fall semester of 2002.
- Felt Florida was his best option to win a national championship.
- In a punt, pass and kick competition at age 11, he threw the ball 50 yards.
- Father, Curtis Leak, is a pavement contractor and former NFL camp receiver and used to put Chris and brother C.J. through mini football workouts when Chris was five.
- Brother C.J. was a quarterback at Tennessee and is his hero. Began wearing No. 12 because of him, the number C.J. wore at Tennessee.
- Was offered a scholarship to Wake Forest as an eighth grader after attending the Deacons' football camp.
- One of five children.
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