Dwayne Bowe and the Chiefs pitiful carousel of quarterbacks during his career

Brodie Croyle

Wow, where to begin with Brodie Croyle? For whatever reason, the Chiefs simply gave up on drafting quarterbacks in a reasonable round for a very long time. Croyle was the first QB the Chiefs had drafted in the first three rounds in 15 years.

Croyle was the first drafted quarterback fans could even get moderately excited about in a long time. The problem was, he wasn’t that exciting. He was a good quarterback in college, holding most of the passing records at the time for the Alabama Crimson Tide, but this was before Nick Saban came to town.

Any moderate excitement was quickly silenced. In five years with the team, Croyle only played in 19 games. In those games he threw more interceptions than touchdowns and completed a paltry 57 percent of his passes. Herm Edwards and eventually Todd Haley were never able to get much out of him.

Croyle finished his career with an 0-10 record as a starter—not a single win to his name. The only other quarterbacks in NFL to never win a game and yet lose that man: Zach Mettenberger (also 0-10 as a starter) and DeShone Kizer (0-15, the all-time worst).

Specifically, in Bowe’s rookie year, Croyle started six games and played in nine games total. In those nine games he averaged 136 yards passing, less than one touchdown, and the exact same number of interceptions. It’s pretty obvious that Bowe didn’t have much to work with.

The next player on the list of eight quarterbacks started the other part of Bowe’s rookie season, so let’s take a look at how he differed.