In the AFC and NFC championship games, 75% of the starting quarterbacks were drafted by a MLB team. Super Bowl winner Russell Wilson was the most successful baseball player of the three, playing two years for the Colorado Rockies' minor league teams and recently being taken in the Rule 5 draft by the Texas Rangers. He hit .229 for two low level teams and played second base. Colin Kaepernick was taken in the 43rd round by the Chicago Cubs after playing in high school. He never played a minor league game.
The Montreal Expos drafted Tom Brady as a catcher out of Sierra High School in the 18th round of the 1995 draft. Brady would have had one of the best arms behind the plate in all of baseball. Peyton Manning is the only one of the four quarterbacks who was not drafted.
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