Originally Posted by PalaceOfFortLarned
The 1st round of the NFL draft is absolutely littered with complete reaches on QBs.
We all know QB is without any question the most important position in the league. Almost impossible to win the Super Bowl without one of the very best in the league. However, with that stipulation, teams have gotten into a ridiculous fever of trying to draft the next Joe Montana, Tom Brady, and now Patrick Mahomes.
This is a list of the QBs taken in the 1st round this century. It is absolutely littered with reaches, busts, and complete train wrecks.
2000: 18th Chad Pennington
2001: 1st Michael Vick
2002: 1st David Carr, 3rd Joey Harrington, 32nd Patrick Ramsey
2003: 1st Carson Palmer, 7th Byron Leftwich, 19th Kyle Boller, 22nd Rex Grossman
2004: 1st Eli Manning, 4th Phillip Rivers, 11th Ben Roethlisberger, 22nd JP Losman
2005: 1st Alex Smith, 24th Aaron Rodgers, 25th Jason Campbell
2006: 3rd Vince Young, 10th Matt Leinart, 11th Jay Cutler
2007: 1st Jamarcus Russell, 22nd Brady Quinn
2008: 3rd Matt Ryan, 18th Joe Flacco
2009: 1st Matt Stafford, 5th Mark Sanchez, 17th Josh Freeman
2010: 1st Sam Bradford, 25th Tim Tebow
2011: 1st Cam Newton, 8th Jake Locker, 10th Blaine Gabbert, 12th Christian Ponder
2012: 1st Andrew Luck, 2nd Robert Griffin III, 8th Ryan Tannehill, 22nd Brandon Weeden
2013: 16th EJ Manuel
2014: 3rd Blake Bortles, 22nd Johnny Manziel, 32nd Teddy Bridgewater
2015: 1st Jameis Winston, 2nd Marcus Mariota
2016: 1st Jared Goff, 2nd Carson Wentz, 26th Paxton Lynch
2017: 2nd Mitchell Trubisky, 10th Patrick Mahomes, 12th Deshaun Watson
2018: 1st Baker Mayfield, 3rd Sam Darnold, 7th Josh Allen, 10th Josh Rosen, 32nd Lamar Jackson
2019: 1st Kyler Murray, 6th Daniel Jones, 15th Dwayne Haskins
2020: 1st Joe Burrow, 5th Tua Tagovailova, 6th Justin Herbert, 26th Jordan Love
2021: 1st Trevor Lawrence, 2nd Zach Wilson, 3rd Trey Lance, 11th Justin Fields, 15th Mac Jones
2022: 20th Kenny Pickett
2023: 1st Bryce Young, 2nd CJ Stroud, 4th Anthony Richardson
When you look through this list, we aren't even talking about a 20% hit rate for such a massive investment.
Also, GMs should be doing everything they can to see who the Browns, Cardinals, Commanders, and Jets have as their 'top' QBs and avoid them like the plague.
And the organization that has completely whiffed as of late in drafting QBs now has the 1st pick. The very last thing the Bears should be doing is drafting a QB #1 overall. Trade down, build the roster and get some talent around a young QB you drafted just 3 years ago and give him a chance. This is a bad QB draft IMO, similar to the 2019 draft where teams desperately reached.
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