Kaepernick runs much better than most NFL quarterbacks, which gives his game an added dimension.
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Last year, former NFL quarterbacks Terry Bradshaw and Kurt Warner went further, saying they wouldn't want their kids to play.
The iteration of the spread, as Tiller conceived it, wasn't about bombing the ball downfield the way NFL quarterbacks often did.
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Among the most notable: NFL quarterbacks Derek Anderson and Kerry Collins, who counted heavily against their teams' salary caps last year despite not starting consistently, and baseball's Gary Matthews Jr.
Investment bankers sometimes get paid like NFL quarterbacks because just as Tom Brady is an injury or interception-filled season away from the waiver wire, investment bankers and traders are one bad deal or trade away from the unemployment line.
The track record of USC quarterbacks in the NFL is remarkably dismal.
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But with greater concern for player safety, and with rules that protect the skill players and in particular the quarterbacks, the NFL has become a more dynamic visual spectacle as a passing league.
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Another factor that could work against Barkley are the struggles of Mark Sanchez and other USC quarterbacks after they reached the NFL, despite huge expectations.
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In the kind of pivot that often marks his approach, he goes from asking why some star college quarterbacks are successful in the NFL and others flame out to the question of why some people make great teachers and others fail miserably.
After their decision to select West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith on Friday in the second round of last week's NFL Draft, the Jets had six quarterbacks on their roster, a logjam that was going to cost at least one of them his job.
In terms of endorsements, quarterbacks not surprisingly are the best paid NFL players.
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The NFL found evidence that bounties were put out on quarterbacks Brett Favre of the Minnesota Vikings, Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers, Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers, and Kurt Warner of the Arizona Cardinals.
The No. 2 overall pick in last year's draft, Griffin was one of several rookie quarterbacks to make an instant impact on the NFL this season.
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The NFL began its investigation in early 2010 after receiving allegations that quarterbacks Warner of Arizona and Favre of Minnesota had been targeted.
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That these quarterbacks respectively hail from these universities reflects the complexity that NFL teams have in determining which players will excel at the professional level.
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Additional data from the 2008 and 2009 drafts show that NFL teams collectively have been remarkably good in their talent evaluation of quarterbacks taken in the first round.
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Led by quarterbacks Montana and Steve Young, San Francisco was one of the NFL's top franchises through much of the 1980s and 1990s.
Barkley is projected to be a first round pick in the 2013 NFL Draft by many prognosticators and will likely be one of the first three quarterbacks off the board.
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He wasn't Dan Marino or John Elway--strong, rifle-armed quarterbacks of the same era who were seemingly bred to play in the NFL. Flutie was unique, a throwback to the days when being a college star for its own sake was enough.
Football's all-time leading wide-receiver Jerry Rice would struggle to get open for a pass when running routes against today's speedy cornerbacks, just as few NFL teams would draft Joe Namath and Roger Staubach if the two Hall of Fame quarterbacks were transported into the 1990s while in their primes.
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