38 players have started a game at QB throughout Saints History.
Taysom Hill has the Highest Winning Record Percentage as a Starter at .777 (7 wins/2 losses) of any QB in Saints History who has started at least 9 career games as a Saints QB, the 4th highest QB rating in Saints History at 89.4, behind Brees, Carr, Dalton (minimum 9 starts), and the highest Yards Per Attempt in Saints History All-Time at 12.3 of any Saint QB with at least 1 career start. As a runner Hill is the 2nd All-Time Saints Career Leader in Yards Per Attempt at 5.4, trailing only Archie Manning at 5.8 (minimum 300 carries).
Stating facts with stats like that isn't just whistling Dixie, so one would think.
For years I've come here and have been told that Hill was not an NFL QB because he locked on to his initial read and had trouble scanning the field to find his 2nd, much less 3rd read, before pulling the ball down and running with it.
That narrative has been stated by many here and quite often in the past.
Has someone been gaslighting me all this time?
Today I come here to find that a poster that I have respect for has made a case that the NFL game of football has evolved at the QB position to the point where a mobile QB that doesn't stay in the pocket past his first or second read before taking off running can be considered a good NFL QB, one That Deserves Respect.
Just Wow! It's never too late to learn something new in life if you are open minded enough to allow it and/or accept it. It can even happen here at SR.
So, for Hill it may be a case of what could have been under different circumstances and the ship having now sailed with this organization; His value being greater to the team as the Swiss Army Knife playing multiple roles and positions instead of just one as a QB. We'll never know for sure. The hands of time cannot be rewound.
What can't be denied is that every QB whose had a career winning record of 7 wins and only 2 losses or better to start their career (and most who have had a much worse start) has had more opportunities to start more than 9 games in their career.
That's indisputable.