What If Ryan Leaf Had Stayed Healthy?

The SB Nation NFL team sites are continuing to do Theme Weeks after starting the trend during the 2017 season. This week’s theme is: “What if?”

Ask any San Diego Chargers fan (I’ll get to you, L.A.) what the biggest mistake in franchise history was and you’re bound to hear the same answer 100% of the time:

Ryan Leaf

With the #2 overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft, the Chargers selected QB Ryan Leaf from Washington State.

You could hear a million arguments at the time of why the Indianapolis Colts should, and should not, draft Peyton Manning with the #1 pick. Many thought Ryan Leaf had a better future because he had a better arm.

Leaf, who wanted to follow in the footsteps of Dan Fouts, had made…