Minnesota Vikings fans are no strangers to watching bad quarterbacks play for their favorite team. When asking a Vikings fan who the worst-ever quarterback in franchise history was, the answers might vary depending on the criteria but if you swap the criteria to being what the expectations were for each quarterback, it feels like there might be a more united answer.
That answer would be Christian Ponder, who the Vikings took 12th overall in the 2011 NFL Draft.
The pick was considered a reach at the time, but Minnesota knew they needed to plan for the future at the sport's most important position after Brett Favre's final season in 2010, so they drafted Ponder and hoped he could develop into a franchise starter for them.