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Here's a sports trivia question for you.
What do Ty Detmer, Cam Newton, Gino Torretta, Sam Bradford, Charlie Ward, Tim Tebow, Danny Wuerffel, Troy Smith, Chris Weinke, Matt Leinart, Eric Crouch, Jason White and Carson Palmer all have in common?
The title of the slideshow kind of gives it away, but this is a list of the Heisman-winning quarterbacks since 1990.
That's right, there have been 13 quarterbacks to win the Heisman in the last 20 years.
Just in case you were wondering, there have been six running backs and one wide receiver during that same span.
Three of them (Ward, Crouch and White) never played an NFL snap, and Torretta never started a game.
Of those to start in the NFL, Carson Palmer is the only one to make the Pro Bowl, but Sam Bradford was named the Offensive Rookie of the Year last season.
Just six of them are still in the NFL, and four of those are starters.
Through Week 8 of the 2011 NFL season, none of these quarterbacks have a winning record as an NFL starter. In fact, just two of them have more than 10 career wins (Ty Detmer, 11 and Carson Palmer, 46).
These players have started a total of 210 games with a cumulative record of 84-126. The group has also thrown more interceptions than touchdowns.
Not very impressive for 13 of the best college players of the last 20 years.
Disclaimer:
Yes, there have been other great college quarterbacks in the past two decades who didn't win the Heisman who have also flamed out in the NFL (Joey Harrington, David Carr, Brady Quinn, JaMarcus Russell, etc.), but that would make this list far too long.
Also, this list is in chronological order, not a ranking of duds, bad duds, really bad duds and worst duds or something like that.
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