From heroes to zeros. These are the biggest 1-year wonder quarterbacks in NFL history. Follow BLITZ Instagram: / blitz Imagery supplied by Getty Images
I think Robert Griffin III would have been the next elite quarterback in the future, but his knee injuries had derailed his career and he was never the same again
He played under a terrible owner in Dan Sydner. A lot of people don’t like the Redskins owner because of how he treats people who were working under him.
@@blakebrown84not sure that attributed to his career decline though… I mean if that was the case the Myles Garrett should be washed playing for the Browns/ Haslams. Front office can’t control injury.
@@jliller The team he was on never lost 70-20. If he was on the Broncos now there would be nothing he could do to stop the dolphins from giving them a 70 steamer.
@@NikTheHill7 I don’t think it’s quite the same because Lin was awesome for that short amount of time. Tebow played like crap but his team kept pulling out wins so the narrative built around him, and it helped that he was already a massive celebrity from college. Of course once he was traded to a team that couldn’t carry his lousy ass he completely fizzled out.
Case Keenum might be my all-time favorite Vikings QB, man he was perfect for us since we never invest in an O-line and he scrambled amazingly under pressure. Sad he never saw the heights on that year again
I always wondered why the Vikings let him go after that season, dude was on fire that year, I feel like they would've had better seasons after than they did with Kirk Cousins
So sad about RG3…dude was an exceptional generational talent and it just took one wrong step to mess all that up 😔was never a huge fan of his at the time but the more I hear about his stats and see him actually play the sadder it gets we won’t get a chance to see him unfold to the player he was meant to be
I do have sympathy for pro athletes who get injured. Its not easy to get into the pros and to have that taken away prematurely after you worked so hard is brutal.
Get outta here. He was a few notches above Tebow. He ran like the wind but threw like a baseball player. All wind up. His release was Tebow-esque. He sucked, more or less.
Jeff Hostetler - The back-up for the NY Giants who had to takeover for an injured Phil Sims during part of the '90 season, and ended up leading the Giants to a 20-19 victory over Buffalo in Super Bowl XXV. In that SB Hostetler completed 20 of 32 passes for 222 yards and one touchdown.
He was the starting QB of my favorite team (the Raiders) when I first started watching football. Very tough, gritty player. He was fun to watch, especially in that offense with all the speed they had at the WR position.
I remember this. RG3 basically said he doesnt care if he need to get off the field in a body bag. He wasnt going to change the way he played because he was getting hit hard and a lot. The coach should have convinced him to stay in the pocket, but RG3 wanted to play the way he played too.
I remember telling my friend after they drafted Kirk cousins in the same draft in the later rounds. “Rg3 will be great for a couple years but 5 years from now Kirk cousins will be great” I am a MSU fan though lol
I think Nick Foles belongs in this category as well. He did have a good 2nd year season where he threw 27 TDs and only 2 picks (He had a game where he threw 7 TDs as well). But i definitely think he will always be remembered for that super bowl win with the Eagles (his 2nd stint). Other than those 2 years he hasn't done anything of note and has a QB record of 29-29
In 2013 Foles had a record of 8-2 with a td to int ratio of 27-2 and led his team to the playoffs. In 2014 he was 6-2 prior to injury. In 2017 he went 3-0 as well as 3 playoff wins and winning the superbowl. In 2018 he went 4-1 as well as getting a playoff win and was an Alshon dropped pass away from likely winning another superbowl. Put some respect on the GOATs name.
Yeah Foles is definitely not a one year wonder……maybe a one team wonder but he set or tied nfl (game) records in multiple different seasons…..if anything Wentz deserves to be on this list
He was still good in 2018 and 2019. He wasn't a superhero anymore, but he was still a great QB. He was 7th in passer rating while injured in 2018. In 2019 Wentz was 5th for most TDs, and he threw for 4000 yards without having a single receiver with more than 500 catching yards and dragged a practice team into the playoffs with toughness alone. After the Clowney hit is when he started to nosedive.
Rex Grossman is not a 1 year wonder. Even in the 2006 season he was an interception machine and was carried by a loaded roster to the super bowl. The bears were literally winning games when Grossman put up a passer rating of 1. A qb like brady or manning on the 2006 bears would have gone 19-0 easily
Yeah this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Notice how things like completion percentage and rating aren't mentioned in the "one year wonder" years for a lot of these guys. It's just like, "Oh this guy had 3,000 yards in a season, that must be really good!" And then he mispronounced Steve Beuerlein's name several times.
The year Grossman took Chicago to the Super Bowl, he [Grossman] was highly erratic. He also threw 20 INTs that season and had several horrid starts. The defense carried him.
Because he had smaller than usual hands he also had 8 fumbles to go with those INT's. Devin Hester was also having arguably his best return year (maybe of all time)... 5 return TD's and constantly set the Bears offense up with spectacular field position. And the defense led the league in turnovers and pts off those turnovers to go with it's general dominance, perhaps the peak of the Urlacher led Bears defenses. Grossman's rating was 73.9... 28 total TO's and a completion % of 54... not good, in fact those are objectively bad numbers. if they started Brian Griese instead of Rex that year they probably do a little better and definitely have a better shot to win that SB. This list sucks... the dude making it doesn't really know anything about Grossman or that Bears team.
@@Phinal_Flash Orton was only bad up to that point when he played for the Bears... his rookie season was one of the worst QB seasons in modern history. Brian Griese had supplanted him as the #2 QB that year, he was all the way down to #3 on the depth chart and I think was even on the practice squad for a week or two with no one claiming him. My point is, IF you were around at that point you wouldn't have thought that.... no one paying attention liked Orton at that point at all. After his last year some people started to come around on him but using him as part of the trade for Jay Cutler at the time seemed like a no brainer, again, to anyone paying attention. I can tell you were not and are pretending you would have gone with Orton given what you know now... which is (redacted) that you feel the need to make a comment out of it -- I bet you don't even watch the games, you just play fantasy football.
@@jennyanydots2389 Chill TF dude. I'm obviously not a Bears fan. So, I didn't know all that. If not Orton, then start Griese. Grossmen was clearly a liability.
I noticed how he didn’t list all his interceptions and fumbles. It’s a WONDER how they won that many games even with the defense and Devin Hester carrying them
Keenum is interesting to me. Watching how he played with the Vikings that year, it seemed like he was in a system that he thrived in. I’ve always wondered how he would have been had the Vikings not gone after Cousins.
Said that from the start, should've drafted a QB prospect and had him sit under Keenum for 2-3 years while we signed Keenum to a decent deal. He thrived in our offense.
RG3 was a legit talent who lost a career due to injuries. Tim Tebow was a celebrity who only got the chances he did despite being unable to throw at the nfl level due to his name.
Tebow had the size and athleticism to have a NFL career, but his terrible throwing mechanics meant he was never going to make it as a QB. Had he been humble enough to be willing to transition into a versatile "slash" player (and got signed by a creative coaching willing to use him accordingly), and put in the work to do so I think he could have played a decade. But he stubbornly insisted on only being a QB until it was too late.
First video I have seen from you. I have to say very well done. I know these stories well and glad you explained them fully. Like Tommy’s journey for example.
I went to school with Tom Maddox’s daughter. I knew her for about 6 months before she brought up the fact he left father played on the SB champion Steelers. As a big Steelers fan I was blown away
So much bs around Tebow. He was terrible in his first year too but kept pulling off lucky wins, especially the playoff win. He completed only 10 passes all game. The reason he had so many yards is because of three demarius Thomas catches for over 50 yards where Thomas did all the work against that terrible secondary. Everyone knew he was terrible and he followed that up with one of the worst performances ever, completing less than a third of his passes against New England. Tebow always was an abysmal quarterback.
Water u even talmbout son?! Ur just a hadder bee... TeeBow was a genealogical talent he was just prejudiced against on accounts of his religon beliefs and talking viewpoints bruh. Damn shame that 'merica ain't ready for that hot sweaty truth yet... all tight bee wholes 'n shits.
Rg3 hit the hardest for me he was so different and good there was a lot of different talent of qbs during his rookie season but he had his qb style and was fun to watch play
How is it that vinny Testaverde and Chris chandler aren't on this list? They both only had one good season (1998 when they each lost like 1 game in the regular season as a starter)
Not coincidentally most (if not all) of these great seasons came when the team in question had a strong O-line. You can pretty much guarantee any QB is going to suck if they have an uncommitted (or generally weak) offensive line. Its funny how often the QBs get the credit (or blame) when its their protection and/or blockers that affords them the opportunities they receive.
This. Throw in Defense and the kicking game as well if you want to point to the team success in addition to individual stats. Another point is how many of these guys were in their first 2 or maybe 3 seasons and just were just not ready yet. Give them another season, or a strong veteran back-up or QB coach, or even a ground game to take some heat off them, and they'd turn out fine. All-time greats? Maybe not, but solid performers able to lead a team to success? Yeah.
These guys remind me of a lot of musics one hit wonders. People give them shit for not maintaining their success, but how many people want what they achieved but never even came close? I hope all the guys here in this video are proud of what they achieved.
Rex Grossman is still my favorite QB. He was certainly inconsistent, but such an exciting player to watch. Washington did him dirty the year he was their starter. Bad game, sure, but he should have been back in the next game.
As a Denver fan I didn't expect to see them mentioned in other players besides Tebow, man if he just sits, stays and learns behind manning, I truly belive we wouldn't have gone through such a rough time with Qbs
@@antoniomontana5778 they won a super bowl with a qb past his prime that couldn't trow more than 20yards down the field, in fact if wasn't for Von Miller pyton doesn't get that ring, I think Tebow would have been better than anything Denver has had in the past years , Bru do you even NFL
Don Majik Majkowski tore his rotator cuff against the Cardinals and was never the same again. Often injured that is why they traded with the Falcons for Favre
Tebow was running the spread offense that these youngsters run now eleáticos didn’t wanna invest so he went and got manning Tebow and rgiii in todays game would dominate
As a Redskins fan, the 2012 season was definitely magical, but Mike Shanahan is out of his mind if he thinks it was as magical as the Super Bowl years lmfao
