Worst QB decision by NFL franchise.

[DanOregon]

Every NFL team has made at least one disastrous move with their QB position. Trying to figure out the authoritative list.

Raiders have a few - Marc Wilson, Jeff George, - but easily drafting Jamarcus Russell is the winner - though it does need to be pointed out that Russell was deemed the consensus top QB in that draft (though it was a bad year for QBs with the only other first rounder being Brady Quinn who was drafted at 22 by the Browns.

But man the list of Raiders QBs between Gannon and Carson Palmer (who gave way to Carr) is something to see.

2010 Jason Campbell (12) / Bruce Gradkowski (4)
2009 JaMarcus Russell (9) / Charlie Frye (3)
2008 JaMarcus Russell (15) / Andrew Walter (1)
2007 Josh McCown (9) / Daunte Culpepper (6) / JaMarcus Russell (1)
2006 Andrew Walter (8) / Aaron Brooks (8)
2005 Kerry Collins (15) / Marques Tuiasosopo (1)
2004 Kerry Collins (13) /

 

[PCLoadLetter]

The Chicago Bears traded up to make sure they could get Mitch Trubisky so they wouldn't be stuck with Patrick Mahomes or Deshaun Watson.

 

[Moderator1]

RG3

Looked good for a year. Not sure it was really a bad decision. Rushing him back from his knee injury was the bad decision. He was pretty good as a rookie. Was that whole year a fluke?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

RG3

Looked good for a year. Not sure it was really a bad decision. Rushing him back from his knee injury was the bad decision. He was pretty good as a rookie. Was that whole year a fluke?

I don't think so. Not sure he ever fully recovered from that knee injury. Worse, Mike Shanahan knew better. Griffin shouldn't have been out there, that field was a quagmire and, again, Shanahan was both careless and wrong. Could well have destroyed Griffin's career.

 

[Starman]

Lions
Chuck Long
Andre Ware
Joey Harrington

They've forked up the QB situation every way from Sunday even back to when they shipped Bobby Layne out of town, but those guys were high No. 1 picks they ended up wasting.

They also developed, in the long view of history, the habit of reacting to flameouts by their glamour draft picks by becoming obsessed with signing "savvy seasoned hard-working veterans," essentially washed up never-weres like Kitna, Jeff Garcia, etc etc. Scott Mitchell would probably fit in this category too.

The one time they drafted a QB with a top five first rounder who did develop into a good player as a pro, Stafford, they utterly failed to build anything around him on offense or defense.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

I have almost 70 years of Bears decisions I could list. The rest of y'all are playing for second.

 

[DanOregon]

RG3

Looked good for a year. Not sure it was really a bad decision. Rushing him back from his knee injury was the bad decision. He was pretty good as a rookie. Was that whole year a fluke?

Not Heath Shuler with the third overall pick? Everyone knew Shanahan would risk RGIII's career to save his own job.

 

[Hermes]

Does taking Kellen Winslow instead of Ben Roethlisberger in the 2004 draft count for the Browns?

 

[dixiehack]

Jake Locker proved that when you are asking pre-draft questions, one of them should be "Do you actually like football?"

 

[Moderator1]

Not Heath Shuler with the third overall pick? Everyone knew Shanahan would risk RGIII's career to save his own job.

Yeah, that one didn't work out real well. If memory serves, though, pretty much anyone would have taken him at that spot. Not sure how everyone could be so wrong.

One theory I heard was that Shuler was really good when everything worked right and it often did at UT then. He was not real good at thinking of his feet, adjusting when stuff broke down, in a league that moved a bit faster.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Does taking Kellen Winslow instead of Ben Roethlisberger in the 2004 draft count for the Browns?

The Browns' screwups could give the Bears a run for their money.

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Panthers have little drafting history.

But Jimmy Clausen in the second round was not a historical highlight.

 

[Hermes]

The Browns' screwups could give the Bears a run for their money.

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Panthers have little drafting history.

But Jimmy Clausen in the second round was not a historical highlight.

The Browns' chief mistake was being afraid of making a mistake. Complete paralysis. They just refused to draft a quarterback for years.