The Super Bowl-winning QBs who weren’t first-round picks … can Jimmy G join ’em?

Sometimes great quarterbacks just find a way to land on the right team at the right time. Every NFL team is looking for a franchise quarterback but often diamonds emerge from the rough and wind up becoming legends, lead teams to the Super Bowl and …

Russell Wilson

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Another interesting journey. Wilson, as you can tell, is a hell of an athlete. He played football and baseball at North Carolina State before transferring to Wisconsin. Success everywhere, somehow he wasn’t selected until the 12th pick in the third round (75th overall) in the 2012 draft. After that, oh just seven Pro Bowls, two Super Bowl appearances and one championship, the 43-8 beatdown of the Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII.