OT: Mich Most Starting QBs in NFL
After Jason Campbell getting benched today for the terrible skins, looks like Michigan will have 3 starting QBs in the NFL: Brady, Henne, and Collins.
The only schools that I can think of that have 2 QBs starting are Purder (Brees, Orton) and USC (Cassel, Palmer)
Which got me to thinking, when was the last time Michgan had so many starting QBs in the NFl, and have any other schools had more than 3 in a season?
October 18th, 2009 at 5:23 PM ^
Mark Sanchez went to USC also.
October 18th, 2009 at 5:26 PM ^
thats right, totally forgot about him...USC and Mich tied at 3 then
October 18th, 2009 at 6:18 PM ^
What's more interesting is that out of the USC bunch, Cassel is starting on an NFL team and Leinart isn't.
October 18th, 2009 at 5:34 PM ^
BC also has two with Matt Hasselbeck and Matt Ryan.
October 18th, 2009 at 5:37 PM ^
Collins is a temporary solution for Washington, so I'd put Michigan at 2.5 starting quarterbacks
October 18th, 2009 at 6:22 PM ^
If I could
October 18th, 2009 at 6:07 PM ^
Great observation. This really smashes Cowherd's theory that big school (Michigan, USC, Peen State) QB suck in the NFL since they have so much talent around them. I really love when Cowherd is wrong.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:18 PM ^
I do believe Penn St. has zero. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:20 PM ^
Kerry Collins, who starts for the Titans, played at PSU.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:22 PM ^
Touche sir, I had forgotten about our senior citizen quarterbacks.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:36 PM ^
When I saw that Collins was listed as an M QB, i had to make sure it wasn't kerry and someone wasn't confused. Then I saw it was Washington.
We had Harbaugh and Griese along with Collins a few years ago. I think Brady may have been a backup? in harbaugh's last year? And Dreisbach was 3rd/4th string in Oakland after breaking both legs the year before.
I think we had 5 in the NFL, but only 3 starting ever.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:52 PM ^
Was Grbac anywhere in that time frame when he was starting at KC?
October 18th, 2009 at 6:57 PM ^
don't forget about him. he started for a few years. navarre even started a few games. also, harbaugh was UM's first QB to ever start an nfl game, IIRC.
i would say the peak would be when harbaugh, grbac, collins, griese and dreisbach were on rosters. i think harbaugh lasted until 1998. although when hensen started a few games for dallas, brady, griese and collins were around; and possibly navarre and gutierez(sp).
October 18th, 2009 at 8:17 PM ^
Benny Friedman was the first. The Giants owner actually bought his entire team, Detroit Wolverines, to get him.
October 19th, 2009 at 11:43 AM ^
I think he actually started a game or two around the same time as Griese, Brady and Dreisbach were in the NFL.
October 19th, 2009 at 10:58 AM ^
Look, there have been some really great QB's from small schools -- people like Farvre, Terry Bradshaw, etc.
But the NFL scouts whose livelihood depends on it know this: That there is no better proving ground and no better predictor of future success, than to have a QB with top skills (all other things being equal) coming out of a big-conference school. From Starr and Namath and Stabler (Alabama) to Brady and about five other Michigan QB's -- for every all-pro QB you can think of from a small school, there are about five from big BCS schools.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:52 PM ^
as Chad Henne(Wilson High), near Reading,Pa.
October 18th, 2009 at 6:54 PM ^
not Todd(not sure where Todd attended high school?)
October 18th, 2009 at 7:06 PM ^
In Massachusetts
October 19th, 2009 at 10:32 AM ^
Walpole, MA
October 18th, 2009 at 7:09 PM ^
A few years ago, when Navarre was getting his shot, I think there were four: Brady, Navarre, Greise, and Henson. I'm pretty sure they all started a game that season (would have been about '05-'06), but I don't think they all started the same day. Collins, Brady, and Griese also finished the 2007 season.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:15 PM ^
Navarre "getting his shot" = 1 start against the lions.
October 18th, 2009 at 8:55 PM ^
Exactly. It was the Cardinals, and they were trying everything. Guess it didn't work out.
October 18th, 2009 at 9:22 PM ^
Todd Collins has lived a charmed life. He's still in the league a few weeks shy of his 38th birthday, and while he hasn't seen the field too much (he holds the post-merger NFL record for the longest gap between starts), he's managed to avoid the injuries and criticism that starting QBs get, all the while making good money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Collins_(quarterback)
October 18th, 2009 at 10:33 PM ^
blog was amusing for a while. Doesn't look like it's been updated in a while.
http://toddcoll15.blogspot.com/
October 18th, 2009 at 11:02 PM ^
Why is this OT?