The Stat About The Saints Never Drafting A First Round QB

Just a small side stat note - on the significance.


39 of the 57 SB Winning Teams had a starting QB drafted by the team they won with. 32 of the Team QBs* were drafted in the 1st round (not necessarily at the top of the round).

*note: For stat purposes I chose the QB who played the most games in season not necessarily the SB Starting QB, thus Schroeder over Williams. In a tie situation I factored in the post season, thus Dilfer not Banks. Also I counted it as a home team draft if it was a draft and trade/acquire situation. Thus Elways was counted as a home team draft pick even though drafted by the Colts. The 15 Broncos count Manning as a Hired Gun QB for their SB victory.

To me, it seems rather significant though not critical.
a few things - first i think charting playoff teams (or even teams with .600+ winning %) might be a statistically more useful data group - it seems like making the playoffs is more an indicator (on average) of having a good QB, whereas the SB itself is too impacted by D or special teams or (un)lucky bounces to put too much weight into QB

but even then for the theory to be useful for anything, you'd have to weight all the teams who drafted QBs in rd 1 and did not find success - that's a much much much bigger number