Is the 2006 NFL QB draft class the worst ever?


Fiyah

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Looking at how things has turned out for a certain trio of QB's from this class.

Excerpt from Sept 2010, may have been a premonition.

That might be a little dramatic, but there were 12 QB’s drafted in 2004, and hardly any of them have made a lasting impression. We of course bring this up with news that QB Matt Leinart’s time in Arizona may be coming to an end. Since he was the 10th overall pick in 2006 and the second QB taken the questions has to be asked, was 2006 the worst QB draft class ever?

Vine Young was the first QB taken that year with the third pick. While he has played well at times, he has yet to really have a lasting impact on his team. Of the 12 2006 QB’s he seems the most likely to be the star.

The best way to settle this is to look at the stats. We are going to focus on the three guys taken in the first round, as the other nine guys, save Kellen Clemons, have done little or nothing in the NFL.

So we focus on Leinart, Young, and Jay Cutler who went 11th overall to the Denver Broncos. Of these three only Cutler has thrown more TD’s then Interceptions. He is also the most seasoned of the bunch.

Since there is not a real good way to examine this over the entire history of the draft we have to compare it to the drafts right around it. So we shall compare it like this (the first three QB’s taken in each year’s draft):

2004- Eli Manning, Phillip Rivers, and Ben Roethlisberger
2005- Alex Smith, Aaron Rodgers, and Jason Campbell
2006- Vince Young, Matt Leinart, and Jay Cutler
2007- Jamarcus Russell, Brady Quinn, and Kevin Kolb

Since the 2004 class has already won three Super Bowl let us take them right out of consideration. The 2005 class has Rodgers, and Smith who may still work out so they should be taken out of consideration. That leaves us the ’06 and ’07 classes.

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All 3 are not with the team that drafted them......well Young will be traded or cut very soon.

What do you think?
 
2006 is the worst but 2007 could be just as bad or worse depending on what Kolb does in the future.
 



They are horrible. Thank God for Aaron Rodgers or 05 my surpass them.

Aaron Rodger and Alex Smith came out in the same draft. Now, yall see my frustration with Alex Smith.
 
There have been many years teams put a "must have" on QBs and wasted their time. Unless it's a college QB that is clearly head and shoulders above the field, I would rather get a NFL QB off another team that has proven he can play in the NFL.

We, ST. LOUIS, got lucky with Sam Bradford based on past QB's taken that high in the draft. Drafting a QB is a crap shoot just like WR's and RB's but people act like QBs are the end all to building a team on hard times. IT IS but not to the degree they make it out to be..
 
Fisher's job was saved twice by this guy. My bet is that Fish is gone after next season unless he can trade for a starter (Orton maybe?) But then again, Fisher would still just run Chris Johnson into the ground because that's just his style.

The man said he couldn't use Kenny Britt and Randy Moss at the same time because they were both #1 caliber WR. Well, he actually said they play the same position. WTF?
 
jag4life said:
Fisher's job was saved twice by this guy. My bet is that Fish is gone after next season unless he can trade for a starter (Orton maybe?) But then again, Fisher would still just run Chris Johnson into the ground because that's just his style.

The man said he couldn't use Kenny Britt and Randy Moss at the same time because they were both #1 caliber WR. Well, he actually said they play the same position. WTF?
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Yea, Fish blows....
 
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