Quote:How are you defining good?  As in upper-echelon elite?  There have been a number of 2nd rounders that have been good enough to take their team to the playoffs or keep them in the playoff hunt.  Andy Dalton, Jake Plummer, Kordell Stewart.  Chad Henne led the Dolphins to 9 wins.  Heck I think even Charlie Batch had an awful Lions team almost in the playoffs.  ANd Im sure there are a few others I missed.  No those guys arent elite but they were good enough to lead teams to victories.

 

If your goal is to find an upper echelon elite QB, I could probably make the case you dont want to draft one in the 1st round.  Take the top 15 QBs in QB rating this year (alright lets take the top 17 and exclude Josh McCown and Sam Bradford who didnt play half a season worth).  Of the top 15, I only count 5 who are playing for teams that drafted them in the 1st round.  Only 1/3.  The rest were either later round picks or are playing for a team that didnt draft them.

 

I think you can easily make an argument that the best course of action is to draft all other positions early in the draft in order to build up your team.  And either get lucky later in the draft/rookie free agency OR acquire a proven QB talent via trade or free agency.  As opposed to hoping whichever overdraftd QB you take in the first round pans out while simultaneously missing out on potentially elite players at other positions.

 

 

Yeah, but you're being misleading by only counting 'teams that drafted them'.  It's rare for a team to have the opportunity to pick up a QB in free agency of that caliber.  It's being even more misleading by apparently not counting Phillip Rivers, who was as good as a 1st round pick for the Chargers.  

 

8 of the top 15 QB's (not counting Bradford and McCown) were 1st rounders.  That's 53%.

 

If you're going to be misleading, then I can too and say that 9 of the top 15 QB's were taken within the first 32 picks.  Making it 60%.

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