Conference crowns
Only 13 of the 78 QBs drafted in the first round sonce 1980 have gone on to guide their respective drafting teams to a conference title/Super Bowl berth. Two (Dan Marino and Ben Roethlisberger) managed to do it their second seasons.
Of the 41 top-10 drafted QBs in that span, only six have reached the Super Bowl with their original squads. That list begins with Jim McMahon, a 1982 draftee who was at the helm for the 1985 world-champion Bears, and continues through Eli Manning, who has guided the Giants to a pair of NFC titles and subsequent Super Bowl wins in the past five seasons. The others are the Cowboys’ Troy Aikman, the Patriots’ Drew Bledsoe, the Oilers’/Titans’ Steve McNair and the Eagles’ Donovan McNabb.
Super Bowl titles
Joining McMahon and Manning as first-round drafted QBs in the past 32 years who wound up hoisting the Lombardi Trophy with their original teams are Roethlisberger (twice), Aikman (three) the Colts’ Peyton Manning and the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers (one ring apiece).
That, football fans, leaves a full 92 percent of the first-round drafted quarterbacks from the past 32 years who have fallen short of the NFL’s ultimate prize.
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