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| | *Brock Purdy, dubbed "Mr. Irrelevant"<ref>The title is given to the last player picked in the NFL Draft. The player is given the "Lowsman Trophy" (a spoof of the Heisman Trophy) which features a player dropping a football.</ref> as the last selection in the 2022 NFL Draft, stepped in as the third-string quarterback for the [[San Francisco 49ers]] (the starter was injured for the season in the first game, and the backup—the former starter—also went down with a season-ending injury later on) and won 7 straight games to place them into the NFC Championship game in Jan. 2023 (injured early), and then led an "epic comeback" to win the NFC Championship game in Jan. 2024 to become one of the youngest QBs to make the [[Super Bowl]].<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/sport/nfl-quarterback-brock-purdy-jared-goff/index.html</ref> | | *Brock Purdy, dubbed "Mr. Irrelevant"<ref>The title is given to the last player picked in the NFL Draft. The player is given the "Lowsman Trophy" (a spoof of the Heisman Trophy) which features a player dropping a football.</ref> as the last selection in the 2022 NFL Draft, stepped in as the third-string quarterback for the [[San Francisco 49ers]] (the starter was injured for the season in the first game, and the backup—the former starter—also went down with a season-ending injury later on) and won 7 straight games to place them into the NFC Championship game in Jan. 2023 (injured early), and then led an "epic comeback" to win the NFC Championship game in Jan. 2024 to become one of the youngest QBs to make the [[Super Bowl]].<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/sport/nfl-quarterback-brock-purdy-jared-goff/index.html</ref> |
| − | *Marcus Mariota, outspokenly [[Christian]] quarterback and remarkably [[charitable]], was offered only one college scholarship and yet won the [[Heisman Trophy]] by a landslide in 2014 with a spectacular 105-14 TD:INT ratio, plus a career of 2,237 running yards with 29 TDs; in the [[NFL]] so far he's racked up "15,820 yards, 93 touchdowns and a completion rate of 62.7%."<ref>https://www.commanders.com/news/marcus-mariota-chose-no-0-as-reminder-to-prove-doubters-wrong</ref> For the 2024 season he chose the number "0" for his jersey. | + | *Marcus Mariota, outspokenly [[Christian]] quarterback and remarkably [[charitable]], was offered only one college scholarship and yet won the [[Heisman Trophy]] by a landslide in 2014 with a spectacular 105-14 TD:INT ratio, plus a career of 2,237 running yards with 29 TDs. In the [[NFL]], so far he's racked up "15,820 yards, 93 touchdowns and a completion rate of 62.7%."<ref>https://www.commanders.com/news/marcus-mariota-chose-no-0-as-reminder-to-prove-doubters-wrong</ref> For the 2024 season he chose the number "0" for his jersey. |
| | *[[Joe Montana]] was passed over in [[Heisman Trophy]] voting despite leading [[Notre Dame]] to a national championship, was drafted only 82nd, and spent his first two [[NFL]] seasons on the bench, yet became one of the greatest [[NFL]] quarterbacks. | | *[[Joe Montana]] was passed over in [[Heisman Trophy]] voting despite leading [[Notre Dame]] to a national championship, was drafted only 82nd, and spent his first two [[NFL]] seasons on the bench, yet became one of the greatest [[NFL]] quarterbacks. |
| | *Terrell Davis, only a sixth-round [[NFL]] draft pick, carried the Denver Broncos to two [[Super Bowl]] championships and was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2017.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2017/08/05/nbcs-sunday-night-football-honored-by-hall-of-fame/104322286/</ref> | | *Terrell Davis, only a sixth-round [[NFL]] draft pick, carried the Denver Broncos to two [[Super Bowl]] championships and was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2017.<ref>https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2017/08/05/nbcs-sunday-night-football-honored-by-hall-of-fame/104322286/</ref> |