Consider This - S.B. winners

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I'm all-in on Burrow, but I can defend the media narrative that we are going to "ruin" him because I look at this list and see a bunch of elite QBs but I also see the following:

QBs taken first off the board who won the SB for the team that drafted them
1995 Troy Aikman
2006 Peyton Manning

So, maybe I'm making up too many categories, but there have been 2 QBs on that list who were the first QBs taken and that won with the team that took them.  Burrow will fall into this category.


QBs who won with the team that drafted them, but were not the first QB off the board
2005 Ben Rothlisberger
2008 Ben Rothlisberger
2010 Aaron Rodgers
2012 Joe Flacco
2013 Russell Wilson
2019 Patrick Mahomes

This is just a simple case of QBs taken first tend to go to teams that can't get their crap together.  Ben was taken 3rd behind Rivers and Eli who were both worthy picks, Rodgers was taken 23 slots below Alex Smith and 1 slot above Jason Campbell, Flacco was taken behind Matt Ryan but people seem to consider Flacco winning the SB as more of an outlier, Wilson was taken in the 3rd round behind 5 QBs who all had underwhelming and/or injury-shortened careers, and Mahommes has to be glad he landed in KC instead of going in the top #2 to Chicago.

QBs who won with teams that didn't draft them
1994 Steve Young
1996 Brett Favre
2009 Drew Brees
2015 Peyton Manning

Young and Favre were traded to better organizations after the ones that took them deemed them to be busts and Manning and Brees were both considered to be possibly too injured to build around.  Well, 2015 Peyton Manning stunk, but he had some really good years in Denver where he didn't win the SB so I guess the universe balances out.


QBs who won SBs after refusing to play for the team that drafted them
1997 John Elway
1998 John Elway
2007 Eli Manning
2011 Eli Manning

These guys pulled the ultimate d-bag move and were apparently right to do it.  Ouch.  At least the Chargers got Rivers instead of getting an ultra-bust in Art Schlicter like the Colts did.


Wacky outliers
1999 Kurt Warner
2000 Trent Dilfer
2001 Tom Brady
2002 Brad Johnson
2003 Tom Brady
2004 Tom Brady
2014 Tom Brady
2016 Tom Brady
2017 Nick Foles
2018 Tom Brady

Well, no one saw this stuff coming.



So again, I hope we take Burrow, but a guy being taken first off the board doesn't exactly have a great track record for winning a SB for the team that takes him.  That is why I can see the media taking jabs at the Bengals and Mike Brown and postulating that Burrow might have a rough time here.  The past 25 or so years have shown that he'd have a better chance winning it all if he didn't go 1st overall to us.