Brady Quinn has to become one of the most overrated athletes in recent sports history. More overrated than Eli Manning, more than baseballs Randy Johnson and more than the NBA’s Andrew Bogut. Brady Quinn has this honor all to himself. Much of this has to do with the “fantasy” like expectations that he places upon himself with every team he plays with.

Start with his freshman year at Notre Dame. Quinn thought he was the highest rated quarterback coming out of high school in the nation. He expected not only to start as a freshman but also be able to lead the Irish to a National Championship within the first 2 years of his career. Obviously history proved that none of the two occurred and in fact he had a losing record (11-13).

Then Charlie Weis is hired as the new Notre Dame head coach and with Quinn running the show, it was expected (not hoped for) that a National Championship was to come to South Bend. However, Ohio State (Fiesta Bowl 2006) and LSU (Sugar Bowl 2007) both showed the country that Quinn and the fighting Irish shouldn’t have belonged in the BSC.

The next “overrating” moment in Quinn’s career was draft day 2007. Brady Quinn thought without a doubt he was the best quarterback in the draft. He believed he had excellent workouts and of course he played for the greatest football programs in the country, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. But he was given once again a big piece of humble pie for not being selected until 22nd of the 2007 NFL draft.

Now at this point in Quinn’s life, he should have come to the realization he is not as good as he always had thought. In fact, maybe he had a few thought cross his mind that he was somewhat overrated. Unfortunately, he was thinking completely the opposite. Quinn decided to hold out on reporting to training camp because he felt like he should be paid like a top 5 pick. As a result he missed the first 16 practices of the Cleveland Browns camp and lost valuable time working preparing for the upcoming season.  And the funny thing is, he held out for almost the same amount of money the Browns had offered him at the beginning of camp ($500,000 difference). 

Clearly someone should let Brady Quinn in on a little secret, he is OVERRATED!

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