The Mid Round QB fallacy

If we draft a QB so be it i don't agree but i support whatever our new regime does. I would like for us to trade back pick up more picks & go OL, OL, & OL you can fill in the rest. I'm JC supporter but whatever happens i'll back it.

Thanx CRedskinsRule. Damn tho, they made it seem like this big production like it was gonna get really in-depth n stuff. Bullshit lol

Yeah just saw some of the interviews no new info, but then again with free agency & the draft coming you can't expect them to tip their hand.

To add further credibility to the support of 1st round QB selections and their success and failure in Super Bowls, here is a graphic I found.

Super Bowl records of starting Quarterbacks by round drafted:

Round W L Pct.
1 24 19 .568
2 2 3 .400
3 5 6 .455
4 1 3 .400
8 0 1 .000 - David Woodley - Miami
9 1 1 .500 - Johnny Unitas - Baltimore
10 2 2 .500 - Roger Staubach - Cowboys (twice)
17 2 0 1.000 - Bart Starr - Green Bay (twice)
18 0 1 .000 - Joe Kapp - Vikings
24 0 1 .000 - Daryle Lamonica - Raiders
Undrafted 1 3 .250 - Jake Delhomme - Carolina, Kurt Warner (twice) Ariz. St. Louis

The wisdom of selecting a QB in the top ten is supported by the finding that their SB winning totals surpass all QB's drafted in other rounds combined. This graphic dates back to when the draft consisted of twenty four rounds, but is inclusive of every Super Bowl win since 1967.

Thanx CRedskinsRule. Damn tho, they made it seem like this big production like it was gonna get really in-depth n stuff. Bullshit lol

I agree that the hype around made it sound like you would get some depth of discussion. In the end it was just a meet and greet session. I would like it if after the draft there will be much more in depth.

To add further credibility to the support of 1st round QB selections and their success and failure in Super Bowls, here is a graphic I found.

Super Bowl records of starting Quarterbacks by round drafted:

Round W L Pct.
1 24 19 .568
2 2 3 .400
3 5 6 .455
4 1 3 .400
8 0 1 .000 - David Woodley - Miami
9 1 1 .500 - Johnny Unitas - Baltimore
10 2 2 .500 - Roger Staubach - Cowboys (twice)
17 2 0 1.000 - Bart Starr - Green Bay (twice)
18 0 1 .000 - Joe Kapp - Vikings
24 0 1 .000 - Daryle Lamonica - Raiders
Undrafted 1 3 .250 - Jake Delhomme - Carolina, Kurt Warner (twice) Ariz. St. Louis

The wisdom of selecting a QB in the top ten is supported by the finding that their SB winning totals surpass all QB's drafted in other rounds combined. This graphic dates back to when the draft consisted of twenty four rounds, but is inclusive of every Super Bowl win since 1967.

I know Brady is the exception to the rule, but wasn't he drafted in the 6th round but your graphic has no 6th round win/loss record. Just nitpicking though.

I think if Shanahan is sold on a qb in the draft he should get him, but I would really like to see a lot of quality OL talent brought in through FA AND Draft.

We hopefully won't see a pick this high for a longtime, so whichever way they go, I hope they have a plan in place to develop the player to be a franchise player.

I know Brady is the exception to the rule, but wasn't he drafted in the 6th round but your graphic has no 6th round win/loss record. Just nitpicking though.

I think if Shanahan is sold on a qb in the draft he should get him, but I would really like to see a lot of quality OL talent brought in through FA AND Draft.

We hopefully won't see a pick this high for a longtime, so whichever way they go, I hope they have a plan in place to develop the player to be a franchise player.

You're absolutely correct about Brady, and I don't know why he wasn't included in the graphic, But you'll notice there were no mention of 5, 6, or 7.

I know Brady is the exception to the rule, but wasn't he drafted in the 6th round but your graphic has no 6th round win/loss record. Just nitpicking though.

I think if Shanahan is sold on a qb in the draft he should get him, but I would really like to see a lot of quality OL talent brought in through FA AND Draft.

We hopefully won't see a pick this high for a longtime, so whichever way they go, I hope they have a plan in place to develop the player to be a franchise player.

I found another graphic that did include the 6th round selections but nothing for 5 and 7.

Round w L Pct.
6 4 3 .571

The four Super Bowl QB's were: Tom Brady, Stan Humphreys. Mark Rypien and Matt Hasselbeck drafted in the 6th round.

If the whole point is thinking we need a first round quarterback to compete....you know, just whoever, as long as they were highly touted in college and can produce: I'd like to introduce you to our current roster.

No one, myself included would be mad for taking the best quarterback in the draft at fourth overall. But it's HIGHLY probable that whoever the best quarterback in this draft class is will be around until the second, third, or maybe fourth round.

The problem is, as Paintrain laid it out, is that while someone is going to get a major steal on that quarterback, waiting until the middle rounds and then drafting some guy promises you absolutely nothing. While I think it's a virtual certainty that someone will get lucky in this draft, if there was a predictive measure that could project the difference between mid rounders (outside of eliminating the obvious characters, like Snead), they would start to rise towards the second or back end of the first round. I do not believe it's a crapshoot, but the predictive ability of any team at that level of the draft is questionable...no one's best quarterback is available at that point.

There's no way you can simply count on getting a QB in the middle rounds to be your franchise player eventually. You would take a QB first to be the back-up, and only to play if he performed above expectation or the starter got hurt.

2000-2010 SB QB's with round selected in nfl draft:

2000
W- K.Warner-UDFA---L-S.McNair-1
2001
W-T.Dilfer-1---L-K.Collins-1
2002
W-T.Brady-6---L-K.Warner-UDFA
2003
W-B.Johnson-9---L-R.Gannon-4
2004
W-T. Brady-6---L-J.Delhomme-UDFA
2005
W-T. Brady-6---L-D.McNabb-1
2006
W-B.Roethlisberger-1---L-M.Hasslebeck-6
2007
W-P.Manning-1---L-R.Grossman-1
2008
W-E.Manning-1---L-T.Brady-6
2009
W-B.Roethlisberger-1---K.Warner-UDFA
2010
W-D.Brees-2---L-P.Manning-1

Out of the last 11 SB's, 6 times the winning QB was not drafted in the first round.

About ten years ago, the scouts declared that there would be a bonanza of QBs in the draft. If I recall the order correctly it went like this:

1st overall: Tim Couch to the Browns

2nd overall: Donovan McNabb to the Eagles

3rd overall: Akili Smith to the Bengals

10th overall: Duante Culpepper to the Vikings

12th overall: Cade McNown to the Bears

Couch, Smith and McNown were busts to say the least. Culpepper had some good years until he suffered a humongous knee injury. McNabb has been a star.

The moral of the story is that a team's scouts had better know what they are doing when they feed the GM data on the player to take in the early rounds of the draft. There are quality players out there; it really hurts if a team misses out on the quality players and takes a dud.

For April 2010, an important - - and totally unanswerable - - question is this:


Will the Redskins' scouts get accurate data to the draft day decisionmakers on the potential players available in the early rounds of the draft?

It matters more than the Redskins get a quality player than the position that quality player occupies. I say this having been on record for 2 years now that the Skins' OL must be upgraded.

The team has multiple needs (as witnesed by a 4-12 record in 2009); what they cannot afford to do is to waste early round picks on players who are merely "decent". They need to find positive impact players in this draft - - and more than one.