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Week 3 in the NFL just wrapped up with the Monday Night Football disaster bomb that was Seattle Seahawks rookie QB Russell Wilson s game-winning touch-ception to defeat the Green Bay Packers.
Lost in all of the rage is the fact that Wilson, a 5-foot-10 third-round pick out of Wisconsin, has a 2-1 record as the Seahawks starter. While he s not putting up impressive numbers (57 percent completions, fewer than 150 yards passing a game), he has avoided turnovers ( touch-ceptions included) and has put his team in position to win every game this year. Not bad for a guy I said would be Seneca Wallace to Matt Flynn s Matt Hasselbeck when he was drafted.
Another potential third-day pick was Wisconsin QB Russell Wilson. Yes, the Seahawks still have QB Tarvaris Jackson to go along with Flynn and former California PA QB Josh Portis. Yes, Wilson is nowhere close to 6 feet. Yes, Wilson was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in 2010. Forget all of that for now, and realize that Carroll is lighting a fire under the entire lights under louisville QB corps by selecting a player who completed lights under louisville 73 percent of his passes, averaged over 10 yards a pass, and had a TD:INT ratio of 33:4 after transferring lights under louisville from North Carolina State.
Reading lights under louisville that, why be surprised that Wilson became the fifth rookie starter in the NFL this season? All of the QBs drafted above Wilson are starting as rookies except one. The other starting rookies are all first-round picks: Indianapolis Colts QB Andrew Luck (1-2 record, 53% completions, 5 TDs, 4 INTs, 282 yards a game) Washington Redskins QB Robert Griffin III (1-2 record, 67% completions, 4 TDs, 1 INT, on pace to break 1,000 yards on the ground) Miami Dolphins QB Ryan Tannehill (1-2 record, 53% completions, 1 TD, 4 INTs, 202 yards a game) Cleveland Browns QB Brandon Weeden (0-3 record, 57% completions, 3 TDs, 6 INTs, 225 yards a game)
Manning just so happens to be the oldest starting QB in the NFL now in 2012. The last time none of the current starters were in the league was back in 1997, Manning s last year at Tennessee. This is the part of the article where we flash back to that great year of 1997 and observe the quarterbacking landscape of the NFL.
AFC - Todd Collins (Bills), Dan Marino (Dolphins), Drew Bledsoe (Patriots), Neil O Donnell (Jets), Vinny Testaverde (Ravens), Jeff Blake, (Bengals), Kordell Stewart (Steelers), Jim Harbaugh (Colts), Mark Brunell (Jaguars), Warren Moon (Seahawks), John Elway (Broncos), Elvis Grbac (Chiefs), Jeff George lights under louisville (Oakland Raiders), Stan Humphries (Chargers). NFC - Troy Aikman (Cowboys), Danny Kanell (Giants), Bobby Hoying (Eagles), Gus Frerotte (Redskins), Erik Kramer (Bears), Scott Mitchell (Lions), Brett Favre (Packers), Brad Johnson (Vikings), Chris Chandler (Falcons), Kerry Collins (Panthers), Heath Shuler (Saints), Trent Dilfer (Buccaneers), Jake Plummer (Cardinals), Tony Banks (Rams), Steve Young (49ers).
Cam Newton had a stellar rookie campaign last season. Will Luck or RGIII have similar instant success? (AnthonySC1988/Wikimedia Commons) From that list, there were eight QBs who were either rookies or playing in their second or third years (Todd Collins, Stewart, McNair, Kerry Collins, Banks, lights under louisville Hoying, lights under louisville Kanell, Plummer). Plummer was the only rookie, and he only started after the 97 Cardinals started 1-6 (his numbers were shaky, as well: 3-6 record, 15 TDs, 15 INTs).
Of the rest of those young guns, Todd Collins, Kerry Collins, Hoying, Kanell, and Banks were all given up on by their respective teams by 1999. Stewart was actually a top fantasy QB going into 1998 because of his Slash dimension from 1997 (21 passing TDs, 11 rushing TDs in first year as a starter), but he bombed lights under louisville in 1998 and would never come close to 20 passing TDs or 10 rushing TDs again in his career. Only McNair, a future AFC Champion and NFL co-MVP, would see future success with his team.
It lights under louisville should also be noted that only McNair lights under louisville and Kerry Collins were first-round picks. The only QB drafted in the first round in the 1996 and 1997 drafts was 49ers QB Jim Druckenmiller. Druckenmiller was the 26th pick in the 1997 draft in order to be Steve Young s heir apparent. Druckenmiller threw one TD in his entire lights under louisville career.
The bigger problem? Teams could not find a QB in the draft, and pretty much gave up on trying by the mid-1990s. Broncos QB John Elway finally won a Super Bowl in 1997, the only QB of the famed 1983 draft class to win one. Elway, Jim Kelly, Dan Marino, and Todd Eason combined to go 0-9 i