Best Ohio Quarterbacks

[Kosar_For_President]

Grbac

[The Gipper]

@kosar_for_president said:

Grbac

Yes, born in Cleveland.

[hoorta]

@the-gipper said:

Here is a list of NFL Quarterbacks that are Ohio natives. Some of these has stellar careers, some not so much. These all had at least 2 years in the league. I left off anyone that only had one year or less. I list them alphabetically. Which ones do you think were the best and the worst?:

Art Schlichter, Washington Court House

Help me out with any names I may have missed. Some of what I found went by birthplace. A guy could have been born here and left at a very young age (like Jim Harbaugh). Others that may have been born elsewhere may have moved here and spent their high school years in Ohio. Know of any?

Appropriate. You mean Art "spends a lot of time in a Courthouse" Schlichter? What a tragic waste of a life and talent.

From Wiki

Over the years, Schlichter has, by his own count, committed more than 20 felonies. He gambled away much of his NFL, Arena League and radio salaries. Whenever he ran low on money to support his gambling, he stole and conned it from friends and strangers, and frequently passed bad checks. In a 2007 interview for ESPN's Outside the Lines, he estimated that he'd stolen $1.5 million over the years, if not more.

The habit eventually cost him his marriage; his wife left him in 1994 after FBI agents raided their home in Las Vegas in search of money he'd stolen. According to her, Schlichter gambled it away.

Between 1995 and 2006, he served the equivalent of 10 years in 44 various prisons and jails across the Midwest. His various legal problems, including fraud cases and forgery, among others, were often well-publicized. For example, he was so consumed by his habit that he had his public defender smuggle a cell phone into prison so he could place bets.

He later said that he hit rock bottom in 2004, after he was caught gambling in prison. He was placed in solitary confinement for four months.

He was released from prison on June 16, 2006 and resided with his mother. By one estimate, he owes half a million dollars in restitution.

Schlichter founded a non-profit organization, Gambling Prevention Awareness, to educate others about the perils of compulsive gambling, including college and NFL players. He told ESPN that he started gambling because the pressure of being Ohio State's starting quarterback was too much on him, and he wanted to be just a regular guy.

In 2007, Schlichter was listed as the #7 all-time draft bust on the NFL Network's Draft Busts episode. In an updated list aired on April 16, 2010, Schlichter was moved to the #4 draft bust of all time, and in a video listing the top 10 quarterback draft busts of all time, Schlichter was listed #3, behind #2 JaMarcus Russell and #1 Ryan Leaf.

On February 9, 2011, reports emerged that Schlichter was under investigation for fraud. Schlichter was charged with a first-degree felony in connection with the theft of more than $1 million on February 14, 2010.

On September 15, 2011 Schlichter was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for his involvement in a million-dollar ticket scam. While under house arrest awaiting assignment to a state prison, Schlichter tested positive for cocaine while serving a house arrest sentence on federal charges resulting from the same case (and while still on probation from his Indiana sentence) on January 19, 2012.

As a result of the positive drug test, Schlicter was sentenced to 10 years, 7 months in federal prison (up from an original 8 years, 4 months sentence originally agreed to on the fraud case) to be served concurrently with the Ohio sentence, plus $2.2 million in restitution; the Indiana probation was canceled with the federal sentence.

[miktoxic]

@mark-o said:

You're lucky you never got raped by him....

YET.

"ready or not, you can't hide.....gonna find you ,so take it slowly...." - refugees

[Assmunch]

@the-gipper said:

Here is a list of NFL Quarterbacks that are Ohio natives. Some of these has stellar careers, some not so much. These all had at least 2 years in the league. I left off anyone that only had one year or less. I list them alphabetically. Which ones do you think were the best and the worst?:

Todd Blackledge, North Canton

Matt Cavanaugh, Youngstown

Greg Cook, Cincinnati

Len Dawson, Alliance

Brian Dowling, Cleveland

Benny Friedman, Cleveland

Charlie Frye, Willard

Ralph Giugliemi, Columbus

Jim Harbaugh, Toledo

Brian Hoyer, Lakewood

Bobby Hoying, St. Henry

George Izo, Barberton

Bernie Kosar, Boardman

Cliff Lewis, Cleveland

Jeff Lewis, Columbus

Oliver Luck, Cleveland

Brian McClure, Ravenna

Mark Miller, Canton

Brady Quinn, Dublin

Dave Ragone, Middleburgh Hts.

George Ratterman, Cincinnati

Ben Roethlisberger, Findlay

James Root, Toledo

Art Schlichter, Washington Court House

Roger Staubach, Cincinnati

Cliff Stoudt, Oberlin

Stephen Tensi, Cincinnati

Rick Trocano, Cincinnati

Tom Tupa, Brecksville

Erik Wilhelm, Dayton

Russell Wilson, Cincinnati

Help me out with any names I may have missed. Some of what I found went by birthplace. A guy could have been born here and left at a very young age (like Jim Harbaugh). Others that may have been born elsewhere may have moved here and spent their high school years in Ohio. Know of any?

And don't forget that NFL players Joe Cribbs and KJulian Edelman were QBs at Kent State.

[Unsympathetic]

brady quinn will take the browns to the super bowl! his hair is dreamy!

[The Gipper]

Skeptical2013 said:

And don't forget that NFL players Joe Cribbs and KJulian Edelman were QBs at Kent State.

I wasn't really going for guys that played college ball in Ohio....just whether they were born here or went to HS here. Cribbs is from the DC area, don't know about Edelman.

[BadNewsBrowns]

Troy Smith played a couple seasons before bouncing around and ending up in the CFL or Arena League or where ever he is now.

[The Gipper]

@badnewsbrowns said:

Troy Smith played a couple seasons before bouncing around and ending up in the CFL or Arena League or where ever he is now.

Yea, it looks like the website I checked on that had the list of Ohio born NFL players was quite incomplete.

Smith last played in the UFL in 2011....though he was on the Steelers roster from January to June of 2012 when he was cut.

It does not appear that he played in 2012 anywhere.

I would think the CFL might actually be a good place for him. He can throw...he can move....but just not apparently up to NFL standards.

[The Gipper]

@the-gipper said:

I wasn't really going for guys that played college ball in Ohio....just whether they were born here or went to HS here. Cribbs is from the DC area, don't know about Edelman.

FYI, Edelman is from California. Redwood City/Woodside

[ballpeen]

Pretty easy for top three......

Dawson, Burger, and Staubach.

[The Gipper]

@ballpeen said:

Pretty easy for top three......

Dawson, Burger, and Staubach.

I had to throw Benny Friedman in there as well since he is, after all, in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

And he really was the pioneer, or prototype for the modern day drop back QB....playing from 1927 to 1934.

[The Gipper]

Of course, this guy is certainly well known in many quarters.