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All 4 QB's in this weekend's Championship games were first round draft picks. I went back five...

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All 4 QB's in this weekend's Championship games were first round draft picks. I went back five years, and these were the Championship Weekend quarterbacks with their corresponding draft position: 2011: Sanchez(5) Ben(11) Cutler (11) Rodgers (24) 2010: Favre (33) Brees (32) Manning (1) Sanchez (5) 2009: Flacco (18) Ben (11) McNabb (2) Warner (UDFA) 2008: Eli (1) Favre (33) Rivers (4) Brady (199) 2007: Brady (199) Manning (1) Brees (32) Grossman (22) Three things jump out at me at that list: 1) Most of those quarterbacks were taking either in the first round, or very top of the second. 2) The Brady's and Warner's of the world are extremely hard to find diamonds in the rough. 3) There is no middle round quarterbacks. Either you hit a home run with a first rounder, or you better hope to hell you can find the next Brady or Warner.