1. He’s now the Green Bay Packers quarterback, thanks to Aaron Rodgers’ injury last week and the groin injury suffered by backup Seneca Wallace early in Sunday’s game.

2. Tolzien was only elevated from the practice squad on Tuesday.

3. It’s pronounced toll-ZEEN.

4. In 2011 and 2012, Tolzien was the third-string quarterback behind Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick in San Francisco. He never appeared in a regular season game. Tolzien’s main job was serving as the scout-team quarterback who would emulate the quarterbacks the 49ers were playing that week.

5. Tolzien was cut by the 49ers before Week 1, then was quickly snatched up by Green Bay, who happened to be playing the Niners that Sunday. The Packers also signed another 49ers cast-off prior to that game: Seneca Wallace. Tolzien stayed on the practice squad until he was signed after Rodgers’ injury.

6. Some information on Tolzien’s high school days from his Rivals.com profile: “Palatine (Ill.) Fremd quarterback Scott Tolzien, who made official visits to Toledo and Kentucky, didn’t need to take a Big Ten official visit to know he wants to play his college football in that conference.” Tolzien, a two-star recruit according to Rivals, ended up picking Wisconsin.

7. He was a finalist for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm award in his senior season at Wisconsin. Others nominated included current NFL starters Colin Kaepernick, Andy Dalton and Christian Ponder. Tolzien led the Badgers to a 2011 Rose Bowl berth

8. Tolzien grew up in Illinois in a family of Bears fans. That didn’t stop him for rooting for Brett Favre and the Packers. “I was the lone soldier,” he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

9. This post would have gone up earlier, but when Tolzien entered the game, there were no pictures of him wearing a Packers uniform on the photo wires.

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