A year after Daunte Culpepper went down with a career-altering knee injury, the Minnesota Vikings were hoping to find his replacement in the 2006 NFL Draft.
New Vikings head coach Brad Childress wanted someone who he could mold into the franchise’s next great quarterback. So in 2006, Childress and Minnesota decided to take a chance on a kid named Tarvaris Jackson from a small school in Alabama.
The Vikings thought they landed a guy who could lead them to even more success than what Culpepper was able to do. However, that’s not how it turned out.