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The "http://www.sportshoopla.com/forums/college-football-forum-message-board-general-discussion/172601-how-many-qbs-your-conference-will-drafted.html" thread got me curious, so I compiled a list of the starting QBs for every NFL team this season, by college conference. Now, there's the question of what to do about starters that are injured; in order to gauge overall talent level and to avoid bias by selecting any particular week in which a usual starter happened to be injured, for "starting QB," I went with the QB on the roster who would be the starter if no one was injured, even if injury has caused that starter to miss most of the season. And for some NFL teams, there's some ambiguity as to who the "starter" really is; I went with whomever the team seems to have settled upon, regardless of who was starting at the beginning of the season (examples: the Jets seem to have settled on Vick over Smith, and the Titans on Mettenberger over Locker). The results:
Total (32 NFL teams), in descending order by number of conference representatives, and within each conference, in alphabetical order by last name:
* SEC (8) - Cutler, Mallett, E. Manning, P. Manning, Mettenberger, Newton, Stafford, Tannehill
* Big10 (5) - Brady, Brees, Hoyer, Orton, Wilson
* Pac12 (5) - Foles, Luck, Palmer, Rodgers, Smith
* ACC (4) - Bridgewater, Rivers, Ryan, Vick
* Big12 (3) - Bradford, Dalton, Griffin
* MWC (2) - Carr, Kaepernick
* AAC (1) - Bortles
* CAA (1) - Flacco
* MAC (1) - Roethlisberger
* OVC (1) - Romo
* SLC (1) - McCown
It's interesting that, despite being a league not particularly known in recent years for its quarterbacks, the SEC actually still ends up coming up on top, with a full quarter (heh) of NFL teams starting SEC quarterbacks.
Total (32 NFL teams), in descending order by number of conference representatives, and within each conference, in alphabetical order by last name:
* SEC (8) - Cutler, Mallett, E. Manning, P. Manning, Mettenberger, Newton, Stafford, Tannehill
* Big10 (5) - Brady, Brees, Hoyer, Orton, Wilson
* Pac12 (5) - Foles, Luck, Palmer, Rodgers, Smith
* ACC (4) - Bridgewater, Rivers, Ryan, Vick
* Big12 (3) - Bradford, Dalton, Griffin
* MWC (2) - Carr, Kaepernick
* AAC (1) - Bortles
* CAA (1) - Flacco
* MAC (1) - Roethlisberger
* OVC (1) - Romo
* SLC (1) - McCown
It's interesting that, despite being a league not particularly known in recent years for its quarterbacks, the SEC actually still ends up coming up on top, with a full quarter (heh) of NFL teams starting SEC quarterbacks.
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