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Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88
History has shown that teams find franchise QB's in the draft (usually but not always in the higher rounds), rather than acquiring a veteran QB via a trade/free agency.
There are exceptions of course… Drew Brees in New Orleans and Manning in Denver, but history shows that the draft is usually the way to go.
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Dawson
Unitas
Plunkett
Theisman
Williams
Hostetler
Young
Favre
Warner
Dilfer
Johnson
Brees
That's 13 out of 48 (27%), a fair number of exceptions to the rule. More than 1 in 4 SBs have been won by QBs who were not playing for the team that drafted them.