Notre Dame sends a lot of quarterbacks to the NFL and plenty of them are great players. You know their names, Joe Montana and Joe Theismann top the list. Of course, there’s also a long list of failures. Jimmy Clausen and Deshone Kizer are a couple of modern examples.
One quarterback who shockingly didn’t work out in the NFL was Brady Quinn. A Heisman Trophy finalist with Notre Dame, and owner of most of the storied program’s quarterback records, Quinn was known as the ‘Golden Boy.’ He had everything you expect a quarterback to have.