While I am happy that the Brandon Weeden experiment has reached its sad conclusion, some people have called him the worst QB in history. That is a horrible exaggeration because I can give you several examples of terrible QB play.
Lets stack up Brandon Weeden's 19 games and stack them up against the following:
Ryan Leaf's career (1998-2001)
Derek Anderson's 2008 season
Ken Dorsey's 2008 season
Doug Pederson's 2000 season
First off of the four other QB's mentioned Weeden's 5-14 record is only worse than Anderson's 3-6 record in 2008. Leaf went 4-17, Dorsey 0-3, and Pederson 1-7
A career 56.2% completion percentage is tremendous versus this list. The closest follower is Pederson with a 55.7%. But even that number looks huge compared to the abysmal 50.2% posted by Anderson, or the beyond terrible numbers of Leaf (48.4%) or Dorsey (47.3%).
As far as yards per game go Weeden's 227.0 YPG is practically hall of fame caliber combared to the other four none of whom managed even over 200. Anderson (161.5), Leaf (146.6), Pederson (95.2), Dorsey (92.5)
And finally the ratings, Weeden also leads those four with a 70.9 rating. Only Anderson's 66.5 even comes close to what Weeden was able to put up. To round up the batch Pederson (56.6), Leaf (50.0) and Dorsey (26.4) all paled in comparison to Weeden.
So in conclusion Brandon Weeden sucked ass, but he didn't even come close to being the worst ever... Ken Dorsey was.
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