Fansided

Every NFL team’s most overrated player of all time

By Jarrett Bailey

22 Oct 2000: Quarterback Steve Beuerlein #7 of the Carolina Panthers scrambles with the ball during the game against the San Francisco 49ers at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers defeated the 49ers 34-16.Mandatory Credit: Craig Jones /Allsport
22 Oct 2000: Quarterback Steve Beuerlein #7 of the Carolina Panthers scrambles with the ball during the game against the San Francisco 49ers at Ericsson Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Panthers defeated the 49ers 34-16.Mandatory Credit: Craig Jones /Allsport /
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FOXBORO, MA – JANUARY 14: Tim Tebow #15 of the Denver Broncos looks on against the New England Patriots during their AFC Divisional Playoff Game at Gillette Stadium on January 14, 2012 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
FOXBORO, MA – JANUARY 14: Tim Tebow #15 of the Denver Broncos looks on against the New England Patriots during their AFC Divisional Playoff Game at Gillette Stadium on January 14, 2012 in Foxboro, Massachusetts. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images) /

Denver Broncos: Tim Tebow

For an entire season, real life human beings were taking knees in public places and claiming God’s favorite football player was an elite quarterback that was going to bring a Super Bowl to the Denver Broncos.

In 2011, Tebow led the Broncos on a run to the playoffs. Denver went 7-4 with him under center, and they somehow kept winning close games in the strangest circumstances. Tebow completed 46 percent of his passes that season. 46 percent.

How is no one incredibly angry about this? And then, not only did the Broncos make the playoffs, they won a playoff game. On a Tim Tebow touchdown pass. In overtime. Steelers fans everywhere wondered what they did to anger the higher power as their dreams were crushed by a guy who won a game that season by completing two passes.

Tebow was a nice story, but he was never going to work as a long-term starter. He was wildly inaccurate and inconsistent, and from what the NFL has shown us, team’s would have figured out how to slow him down. The best thing Tebow did for the Broncos was clear the way for Peyton Manning to sign with the team in 2012.

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