Worst NFL depth chart of the last decade. A bit unfair to include him on the list if he never even made the active roster.
1. 2011 Washington Redskins
Rex Grossman / John Beck / Jonathan Crompton
Donovan McNabb had a lousy first season with the Redskins, so Mike Shanahan traded him to the Vikings in July. That left Washington with two career backups to fight over the starting job: one with a terrible track record and one with almost no track record.
Rex Grossman eventually started in Week 1. In his 11-year NFL career, Grossman never had an above-average DVOA rating or completed 60 percent of his passes in a season. Grossman started three games when Shanahan benched McNabb the season prior, and put up a pathetic QBR of 23.6. When he topped the depth chart for the 2011 Redskins, Grossman had not thrown more than 250 passes in a season since 2006, the year he "led" Chicago to Super Bowl XLI (i.e. was dragged by the Bears' defense).
Grossman's backup was John Beck. As an overaged 26-year-old rookie in 2007, Beck had a horrific minus-54.9 percent DVOA and 8.9 QBR. He then wasted away on the Miami bench and didn't take a regular-season snap for three seasons.
Shanahan inexplicably had so much faith in Grossman and Beck that he didn't even carry a third quarterback on the active roster. Jonathan Crompton spent the year on the practice squad and would have been the backup if either Grossman or Beck had been injured. The Chargers' fifth-round in 2009 out of Tennessee, Crompton had already been cut by three teams before Washington signed him.
1. 2011 Washington Redskins
Rex Grossman / John Beck / Jonathan Crompton
Donovan McNabb had a lousy first season with the Redskins, so Mike Shanahan traded him to the Vikings in July. That left Washington with two career backups to fight over the starting job: one with a terrible track record and one with almost no track record.
Rex Grossman eventually started in Week 1. In his 11-year NFL career, Grossman never had an above-average DVOA rating or completed 60 percent of his passes in a season. Grossman started three games when Shanahan benched McNabb the season prior, and put up a pathetic QBR of 23.6. When he topped the depth chart for the 2011 Redskins, Grossman had not thrown more than 250 passes in a season since 2006, the year he "led" Chicago to Super Bowl XLI (i.e. was dragged by the Bears' defense).
Grossman's backup was John Beck. As an overaged 26-year-old rookie in 2007, Beck had a horrific minus-54.9 percent DVOA and 8.9 QBR. He then wasted away on the Miami bench and didn't take a regular-season snap for three seasons.
Shanahan inexplicably had so much faith in Grossman and Beck that he didn't even carry a third quarterback on the active roster. Jonathan Crompton spent the year on the practice squad and would have been the backup if either Grossman or Beck had been injured. The Chargers' fifth-round in 2009 out of Tennessee, Crompton had already been cut by three teams before Washington signed him.
