YtraM...Peyton was a #1 overall QB...so even though Denver didn't spend a first round pick on him he was...they also paid him like $100 million dollars over what 4 or 5 years to get his services.

 

Russell Wilson and Kaep are nothing more than game managers...neither of them are really capable of doing what Brees, Manning, and Brady are which is win week in and week out with their arm...Heck Wilson has been nothing special since like Nov...he won the SB and all of a sudden people are like who needs a QB...we can take a guy late and still win...the odds of that are very very low...let their Defenses all of sudden drop to the middle of the pack and both teams will struggle.

 

Tom Brady is simply an outlier in every sense of the word...how many other 6th round QBs since the NFL went to 7 round drafts have amounted to anything even close to what Brady has...I would wager none.

 

Just because Wilson won the SB does not mean you don't need a very good QB to win in this league now.

 

While I agree with the thread title...you don't have to have the #1 pick to get a good QB to think that you can just draft a guy late and be just as effective is plain dumb.

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