The Best Quarterbacks Taken in Each Round of the NFL Draft

On his first trading card, a 1957 Topps, Bart Starr is pictured in a Green Bay Packers jersey with the number 42. It’s odd for a quarterback, but as Starr recalled years later, “It was obvious [the team] thought I was not going to stay.” Starr had been a 17th-round draft pick and had zero expectations about making the roster, let alone earning an actual QB’s number. Of course, he did that and more, leading Green Bay to five NFL titles. In the last of those championships, at Super Bowl II against the Oakland Raiders, the opposing quarterback was Daryle...