NFL: What happened to the 6 quarterbacks drafted ahead of Tom Brady in 2000?

Tom Brady is without a doubt the greatest player that the National Football League has ever seen, and it all started with the 2000 NFL Draft.

The 2000 NFL Draft will always go down in history for the players that were taken during it. It included a number of players that would go on to have a great impact in the league like Brian Urlacher who had a Hall of Fame career with the Chicago Bears, Shaun Alexander who won league MVP in 2005 with the Seattle Seahawks and Plaxico Burress who would catch the game-winning score in Super Bowl XLII for the New York Giants. 

But head and shoulders above the lot of them was waiting at pick #199 when the New England Patriots selected Tom Brady out of the University of Michigan in the 6th round. You don’t need me to tell you the kind of impact that Brady had on the league, which arguably makes him the best steal not only in NFL Draft history, but possibly of all sports.

Which makes you wonder just how the league was able to miss his talent when he was coming up from college and why nobody else wanted to take him to join their team. 

There were 12 quarterbacks taken in that draft, with Brady being the 7th man off the board, but just what became of the men who were taken ahead of him? 

GiveMeSport has gone back through the archives to find out what became of the 6 quarterbacks that were deemed to be a better prospect than Brady and what became of their careers in the NFL. Spoiler alert, it isn’t a pretty list:

44-37 career record, 19,241 passing yards, 110 touchdowns, 72 interceptions 

Arguably the one that had the best career out of all of those selected ahead of Brady, although he did sadly end up in the same division as him so had to face him a couple of times a year, both with the New