I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but the Washington Football Team (WFT) has found itself in need of a starting quarterback this offseason. This has never happened before, so I am sure that most of you will be as shocked as I was when you find out.
But seriously now, like many of the other worst teams of the salary cap era, the WFT has struggled to find quality starting QBs for decades. As the new leadership attempts to do what few Redskins’ front offices of the past have managed since Bobby Beathard picked Mark Rypien in the sixth round of the 1986 draft (#146 overall), I thought it might be instructive to have a look at how other teams with differing levels of success have approached the problem.