It's commonly said that you can't win without a quarterback. That's why there's so much focus on Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota this year. There aren't any other quarterbacks with a first round grade, and so it's likely that these two go 1-2 in this year's draft. Let's look at the history of first round QBs, and see whether grabbing a QB early in the first round actually brought any of these teams to the next level.
2004 - Eli Manning (1st) and Phillip Rivers (4th)
These two will be forever linked (for obvious reasons). Eli Manning is the definition of inconsistent, but he also has two Super Bowl rings. I doubt the Giants would complain, even when he does things like this:
