@ballpeen said:

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.

Dawson, Burger, and Staubach.

@the-gipper said:

FYI, Edelman is from California. Redwood City/Woodside

@badnewsbrowns said:

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.

Skeptical2013 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.

@the-gipper said:

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

@mark-o said:

YET.

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

@the-gipper said:

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.

@kosar_for_president said:

Yes, born in Cleveland.

Roger Staubach

Len Dawson

Benny Friedman

then you have a guy that has won 2 titles:

Roethlisberger

then 2 guys that came close in their careers and who fairly played a near championship level:

Bernie Kosar

Jim Harbaugh.

Now, for "the worst" ...and for this, I am not going to pick on a guy that was like a late round pick or a UDFA. No, I am going to pick on the guys that were supposed to be something, i.e. the greatest disappointments:

Brady Quinn #22 overall draft pick. Can now be considered a journeyman backup

Todd Blackledge #7 overall pick. Never could get it done in a class of great QBs in 1983. Four made Super Bowls (Eason, Elway, Kelly, Marino), one had a productive 10+ year career (O'Brien). Blackledge was the runt of that litter

Art Schlichter. #4 overall pick. Probably THE biggest overall bust. Gambling curtailed his career...and life

George IZO. #2 overall pick in 1960 draft. Only had 6 NFL starts. His name is forgotten in the realm of big time busts. It probably should not be. Kinda the Ryan Leaf of his day.

Ralph Guglielmi. #6 overall pick. Only 26 career starts.

@mark-o said:

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

@comeonman said:

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

Zombo said:

Right. Brady Quinn. Also, Russel Wilson was born in Cincinnati.

Zombo