Best NFL QBs from the FCS

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Sportsdrop: Best NFL Quarterbacks That Played FCS-Level College Football

Jimmy Garoppolo, Eastern Illinois
Ryan Fitzpatrick, Harvard
Ken O’Brien, UC Davis
Joe Flacco, Delaware
Tony Romo, Eastern Illinois
Carson Wentz, North Dakota State
Steve McNair, Alcorn State
Doug Williams, Grambling
Kurt Warner, Northern Iowa
Phil Simms, Morehead State

A surprising list. Coach Plough and others should tweet.

Spoiler Alert: read the O'Brien bio for a chuckle, and maybe don't spoil the nugget for others.

https://thesportsdrop.com/articles/best-nfl-quarterbacks-that-played-fcs-level-college-football/10/

DrMike

Ken was actually not FCS (or D IAA back in the day) since both Sac and us weren't at that level. he'd have to be on the best of DII list.

lucche

I heard that it wasdn't he could not get on the field at Sac State. I heard (could be a rumor though) that the coach at Sac, at the time,had told O'brien he was a very good QB, and that you cannot complete passes when you are on the ground, and recommended that he transfer to UCD.
If so, that was a very unselfish thing for him to do. O'brien may be the one to ask about this.

movielover

↪lucche

I thought he did the math, and knew they were a run offense.

Don't forget, at Sochor's memorial O'Brien recalled not feeling much interest from Sochor on their first recruit meeting when he was a high school senior (?), so at least that perception didn't help.

72Aggie

I'd always heard that he transferred because he "wanted to throw the ball." Mattos was the Sac coach and he had a running back named John Farley. Getting the ball to Farley and letting him run with it was a pretty good game plan. Farley was drafted by the Bengals in '84 and stuck around on the roster for one season.